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The topic will be "ways to inspire more people to run for office."
We will be trying a few new things here at RMG throughout the year to see what sticks and what doesn't. First up is a Google Hangout. This will be open to the public (which I think means anyone can join without needing an explicit invite). This will be a learning experience for me as I have never done a Google Hangout before.
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There's no doubt about it — whatgrabs your attention right away isthe wood. It's curly maple. This figured wood is so dramatic that youmight be inclined to think "the woodmakes the clock." But while I appreciate the beauty of the curly maple,there are a couple other reasons why I like this clock as much as I do.
DESIGN. First of all, there's thedesign. This mantel clock has a tra ditional look to it. Its clean lines and simple molding would look great nomatter what wood you used.
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that's sandwiched between a layer of molding and a top and bottom.
SIDES. I began work on the body by cutting the two sides (A) to size from 1 / 2"-thick stock, see drawing below. With the sides cut, next I cut a 3 / 8"-wide groove 1 / 4" deep in each side. Then I glued two 1 / 2" x 3 / 8" stops (B) in each groove, see drawing and detail 'a' below. The lower stop is for a drawer. The upper stop will position both the clock face and a face frame. Note that there's a 1 / 2"-wide gap between the upper and lower stops, see detail 'b'. This is for a divider that's added later, refer to drawing on page 2. (One easy way to create this gap is to use a 1 / 2" thick scrap piece as a temporary spacer between the stops.) To complete the sides, the last step is to glue a drawer guide (C) behind each lower stop, see detail 'b' on page 1. These guides fit flush with the out-side face of the lower stop and should stop 1 / 4" short of the back edges of the sides to allow for a plywood back.
DIVIDERS. Next, to create the H-shaped frame, I connected the two sides with a divider (D), see drawing at right. This piece is sized so it's flush with the sides in front and the drawer guides in back, see detail 'a' at right. The trick to gluing the divider and sides is to keep the assembly square. So I used a spacer that matched the length of the divider, see Fig. 1.
TOP & BOTTOM. With these pieces assembled, I added a layer of molding to each end, see drawing above. And then added the top and bottom pieces. First, I cut two cove molding (E) pieces to size from 3 / 4"-thick stock, see drawing. These pieces are cut to create a 1 / 8" lip at the sides and front. (Mine were 37 / 8" x 93 / 4".)
To shape the molding, I routed the ends and front with a 1 / 2" cove bit, see Fig. 2. Then I screwed them to the sides flush with the back, see Fig. 3. Now with the cove molding inplace, I added 1 / 2"-thick top and bottom (F) pieces, see drawing These overhang the cove molding 1 / 8" on the front and sides, see Fig. 4a But there is no profile routed on their edges. And since I didn't want screws showing, they're simply glued in place.


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Anton Corbijn to Direct Coldplay's Live Concert Webcast
Goes to the same gym as Chris Martin.
Later this month, Coldplay plans to webcast live a massive concert it is putting on in a Madrid bullfighting arena, and it has recruited Dutch photographer and legendary music video artiste Anton Corbijn to direct the performance, which is part of the American Express Unstaged concert series, in partnership with YouTube and Vevo. Corbijn, who happens to frequent the same gym as Coldplay face Chris Martin, is perhaps best known for his photography, including for the cover of U2's The Joshua Tree album, and music videos, such as for Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box," but has been expanding his repertoire of late: After the Coldplay gig, he'll be adapting one of novelist John Le Carré's latest novels, A Most Wanted Man. While the rounded Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas is a far cry more aesthetically (and acoustically) pleasing than the usual oblong stadiums where such concerts take place, Corbijn told the Times' ArtsBeat blog that he was still a little hesitant, astrologically speaking. (His star sign is a Taurus, after all.) But with twelve cameras at his disposal, should still make for a rousing show. [ArtsBeat/NYT]


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FORT BLISS, Texas-Soldiers with the 83rd Chemical Battalion, Fort Stewart, Georgia, and the 110th Chemical Battalion, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, conducted an assessment of future Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear equipment Oct. 13, as part of the Army Warfighting Assessment (AWA 17.1) at Fort Bliss, Texas.
The AWA is an operationally realistic and rigorous exercise, enabling Soldier-led assessments of concepts and capabilities for future force development. These assessments will be conducted at Fort Bliss, Texas, and White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, scheduled from Oct. 17-28. AWA offers an experimental environment in which to shape requirements and improve current capabilities. Each exercise will help the Army adapt to challenges to win in a complex world.
"This opportunity to bring early developmental prototypes into the exercise will expedite the acquisition process, and increase the rate of innovation for our Army," said Maj. Gen. Terrence McKenrick, Commanding General, Brigade Modernization Command.
During the CBRN equipment assessment, multiple units supporting the Joint CBRN Advance Capability Sets-Enhanced Capability Demonstration operated and assessed equipment and capabilities in response to a simulated chemical attack.
Throughout the simulation, CBRN Soldiers and leaders were able to assess and evaluate equipment for future use by chemical Soldiers.
Maj. Damian Dixon, a member of the Joint Program Executive Office, discussed how this assessment allowed military personnel to identify capability gaps and highlight benefits gained from new capabilities.
"This CBRN excursion benefits the Army because it introduces new and exciting equipment to our high-speed chemical Soldiers," said Dixon. "Throughout the past four days, we've had an opportunity to provide some realistic training on equipment like our Talon robot with sensors, which will enable the user to get chemical analysis on a target without sending a Soldier into the suspected contaminated area."
Assessing equipment like the M53 protective masks, Powered Air Purified Respiratory systems, Nett Warrior systems, and Talon robots, as well as receiving feedback from the Soldiers operating these capabilities is one of the goals for AWA.
Pvt. Matthew King, a chemical operation specialist with the 83rd Chemical Battalion, Fort Stewart, Georgia, was a front-line Soldier assessing some of the developmental concepts and capabilities.
"The Talon system has been around for some time now, but manufacturers recently made a CBRN Talon for chemical Soldiers," said King. "Now it has chemical, biological and radiological detectors on it, which is beneficial because you don't have to worry about your battle buddy or anyone going down-range and getting injured. It makes you feel much more safe."
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I have some secret knitting going on right now, but lucky for me I've also got a small backlog of FOs to share with you. In the "It's kind of cruel that a knitter should have two boys" department, I present the matinee coat:
Pattern: Debbie Bliss' Matinee Coat, from the first Baby Cashmerino pamphlet
Yarn: Baby Cashmerino, dusty rose, just over 3 balls for the smallest size
Time Elapsed: The knitting took less than a week, but it waited at least 2 for blocking and finishing.
Notes/Modifications: I changed nothing about this pattern. Given my track record with stupid knitting mistakes lately, that's probably a good thing. Although now that I've done it, I should say that I think casting on in moss stitch and picking up the picot edge later seems a bit silly.
(Amelia did the sensible thing and just used a picot cast-on, and it looks great.)
The sweater has the usual collection of sweet-but-not-saccharine Debbie Bliss details, including the picot, the moss stitch, and the adorable little ribbon.
I made the coat for our babysitter's daughter, but we haven't seen her since the birth so I guess there's a chance it will be gifted to the next person around me to have a girl! Jacob will admit that it's cute, although he's very excited to be getting a brother this summer.
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|April 1, 2008 05:30 PM EDT
I have to admit that I do not have an answer.
Why do I even care? Because I am a Java developer. Like many Java developers, I get along with Java well. Not only the language itself, but the development environments (Eclipse for example), step-by-step debugging helper, wide availability of libraries and code snippets, and the readily accessible information on almost any technical question I may have on Java via Google. Last but not least, I go to JavaOne and see 10,000 people that talk and walk just like me.
The other reason that I ponder this question is that the power of Java is a perfect fit for the areas where websites may need more than markups or scripting, such as middleware logic. PHP and Ruby etc are cool for building pages, but they are not ideal candidates for building middleware logic. Given that Java covers the "high end" of the spectrum well (where sophisticated processing is needed), wouldn't it be great to use Java all the way?
Is it Java as a programming language too difficult to use, comparing with those scripting oriented interpreted languages? Yes, this maybe the reason. But there are 5 million Java developers out there already, and millions of developers make a living by write server side Java code. A lot of websites are built by these Java developers, and somehow they choose to use PHP or Ruby instead. Why? It is even more puzzling that I have seen quite a few Enterprise Java people decided against Java - when they decided to build their web 2.0 site, they went for PHP even though they have to learn PHP.
Is it the lack of tooling? I think there are more tools for Java than, say, Ruby.
Is it the lack of frameworks? I bet there are more Java frameworks than the population in China.
OK, a lot of websites are fairly simple, mainly composed of markup pages, scripts and some lightweight logic on the server side, where PHP and Ruby are good for. Java maybe an overkill for such websites. But there are a lot of websites that are much more sophisticated than "lightweight" logic on the server side. For example, FaceBook was relatively simple initially, but now with FaceBook API and Platform, its complexity is growing. Why not use Java for such websites?
So what is missing from the Java world? What is the ideal architecture to build a website using Java?
- Option 1: JSP/Servlet with a Java Servlet engine (or even an application server): This is the dominant architecture for Enterprise web applications. But it clearly has not been appealing for building websites in comparison to PHP or Ruby;
- Option 2: JavaServer Faces: JSF is the new kid on the block. Is it going to make building websites easier? Probably not. It is designed for simplifying building form-based applications.
- Option 3: Using a Java based content management system (CMS)? I have come across many CMS systems over the last few years, and haven't been impressed by anyone of them.
|raysea 11/18/09 04:07:00 PM EST
Well, it's simply not a matter of being "cool," it's a matter of being expedient vs principled. As a long time software developer, I use both Java and occasionally PHP, but prefer Java. But, if someone wants to quickly get a dynamic site up and running, and scalable performance isn't an issue, then PHP or Ruby or some other scripting language, including Perl, would be a reasonable choice. But as complexity grows, the scripting languages falter. One need only look at applications such as facebook today vs facebook last year to see some of the issues being played out.
The second point is learning the development environment, including the language. The scripting languages are pretty easy to learn, and lack the complexity of Java (generics being an exquisite example of that). To learn Java, it's not like just picking up a book and having all you need to begin developing. This is the polar opposite of scripting languages, where a short book or online tutorial will provide all you need to begin. After all, many people would rather die than learn something new. And Java takes some effort to master. Whereas with a scripting language, the basics are easy and then one simply needs to learn about other "packages" or plug-ins.
My suggestion to everyone is to use an IDE (eclipse, netbeans, etc.) that can easily handle both scripting languages and more complex languages, such as Java. Then the environment becomes a non-issue. Additionally, as testing tools come along they are often incorporated into these wonderful IDEs. And if you think an IDE is too complex for your programming needs, I would suggest that programming is too complex for your attitude. As a famous person once said, the question "How can I learn to program, even though I don't like mathematics," is akin to asking "How can I learn to play the piano, even though I don't like music."
|rdgflex 06/29/09 11:32:00 AM EDT
I came to Java rather late in my career, only adding it to my web architecture a couple years back (2007). And so, I feel I can speak somewhat to the reasons as to why developers avoid Java and choose easier languages.
1) Entrance to the Java club seems almost insurmountable. There are SO many frameworks from which to choose. How do you choose a framework when you don't know Java? How do you learn Java if you don't choose a framework to begin the learning process?
2) Authors of Java books assume that every developer comes from a C/C++ background, making constant references to the latter when trying to explain Java. Sorry, but I came from a procedural language background (AS/400) and, therefore, Java books seemed very difficult to trudge through.
3) Authors of Java books on a particular framework often feel it's necessary to make contrasting comparisons to other Java frameworks, assuming the reader has experience with that other framework. Again, if you don't have the assumed background, you miss the point the author is trying to make. In particular, if you came to Java after EJB was widely discarded as a bad idea, but if the book constantly refers to how it was done under EJB, then again you're lost as to the point the author wishes to make.
4) It's not just a matter of learning the Java syntax, but becoming familiar with the ever-growing number of packages.
5) In my view, from a web developer's perspective, Java did not come into its own until the advent of frameworks like Spring, Apache CXF, JAXB, JAX-WS, and the addition of annotations and Java generics to the language. Prior to these additions, Java was simply to burdensome of a language to use.
6) Java has a big drawback for web developers, which is a lack of hosts that will support the Java language. This is especially true if need to tweak the JVM arguments or add a spring-agent jar to the tomcat\common\lib directory.
Granted, Java is much more scalable, allows for access to an abundance of freebies, such as iText for building PDF documents, or POI for creating Microsoft Office documents, etc, etc. The worldwide collaboration and contribution of valuable, time-saving source code can't be overestimated in its value to the developer. After all is said and done, I chose Java because of these two factors that Java offers: scalability and the number of freebies via open source packages developed by some very bright software engineers. However, I still just chose Java as the middleware solution, and opted for Flex on the client side. I don't feel Java can compete with Flex for the UI.
R. Grimes
|gcameo 05/24/09 01:36:00 PM EDT
I am a java developer who decided one day to give PHP a try. That same day I saw why no real enterprise system will ever be written in PHP. It is a just HTML with some way of adding dynamic content. You will never be able to do anything serious with that. java is a programming language. PHP is a scripting language. That is a serious difference that should never be disregarded
|brendanbaldwin 05/22/09 02:05:00 PM EDT
The frustrating thing about articles like this is that there was absolutely no exposition on the merits of any of the three radically different languages mentioned except to say Java is fast.
Well, so is Haskell. So is C++. So is ASM. Why do you use Java? Clearly the only reason is because that's where you are comfortable. The unfortunate side-effect of being comfortable is that you start to get lazy.
You might actually find you really enjoy learning again if you were to take the time and research a subject before you write about it.
|ericnovikoff 11/07/08 12:09:55 PM EST
As a managed cloud computing provider, I have the fortunate position of watching my customers bring their software products to life. I see many of the reasons you give for people not choosing Java, but one you didn't list was the personality of the architect/developer. I do believe that PHP and Ruby are easier to get started with than Java. Someone who thinks their project is "just a few thousand lines of code" and wants to use an extreme-programming "code and go" style of development where refactoring is a way of life, probably will be more likely to choose an "easy" language and start prototyping in it. Those customers of mine who have their architecture planned out in detail and realize the complexity of what they're trying to build seem more likely to choose Java because of the explicit support for complexity it provides. There are also performance considerations: the customers I have who use Java seem to have less niggling performance problems than those using PHP or Ruby. If performance isn't considered in advance, this could affect the choice of language.
|j.d wilson 06/30/08 05:14:54 PM EDT
does anyone else think this blogger is like a little stereotypical at all?
|Slurpie Dog 06/26/08 03:17:42 PM EDT
Let me sum up all these posts.
Java, like its creators at Sun, is anal retentive.
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|Not the One to Answerthis 04/18/08 08:29:08 PM EDT
You know it if you really think about it.
Because Java plays as iut is FLOSS and it is not. So we go LAMP and say F)/= off!
And yeah, I just had Java this semester and it is true: Java SUCKS!
Next semester guess what I am taking? Python!
Long live LAMP (as in PHP right now, and PHP/Python by next year)
Stop writing crappy articles and DO Y OUR JOB! Go program some app in Java and see if anyone uses it.. And I'll gte my Google Apps account and make a Hello World over there and send you a link!
|Dylan Tynan 04/13/08 12:49:35 AM EDT
There were 7 pages of responses above, so, I confess to only reading a couple, so, forgive me if I repeat too many points that were hashed through already.....
The question posed is why do 'cool kids' (or anyone really) choose something like PHP or Ruby rather than Java. I saw a lot of answers above that are certainly correct -- it's really a bunch of reasons of course, but I think I have a handle on the main factors, which might be a little different than the "java is too complex" crowd:
1. The primary reason is that PHP & Ruby (and others) do a great job for most web efforts, and Java does as well. The question could have easily been posed by a Ruby guy about PHP, or a PHP guy about Perl, or a Perl guy about Java. The fact is, all of them are mature enough & powerful enough to handle most web tasks (and especially intranet tasks where Internet-level scalability & redundancy are not an issue). Cop-out answer, but still true....
2. That leads to why anyone ever even used Ruby or PHP,being fairly new, when Java was there already. One reason is because of Perl. I gave thanks to all the Gods when, back in the Mosaic days, I ditched hand-coded C cgi's for Perl. Everyone used Perl for web. It was far & away the most used web dev language. Perl is, however, syntactically pretty difficult, and it requires a good amount of discipline to code good web apps with 100-table databases and scores of pages. Enter PHP, which is extremely Perl like, but has the advantage of being a "templating" language as well --- easy transition for Perl folks. RoR adds it's ORM, MVC, etc., but the author credits Perl as his primary influence. All 3 are interpreted, etc. One other point on this - Perl is highly unixified as far as it's community, while you had a lot of Windows folks coming in, and PHP filled that void a bit better (I've been doing Perl for years & I'm still unclear if I want cygwin Perl, ActiveState, etc. on Windows...wtf?).
2++. As for the other reason why people didn't flock to Java, I saw some posts hitting on this a bit... Basically, Java came out with huge hype, but it was pointed at applets, it was full of bugs, I couldn't even get a couple of Gosling's examples in his book to compile. That tainted Java with a huge section of early webdev types. Sun tries again, this time pointed more at the server & then the enterprise, with (as people said), hundreds of acronyms, excessively confusing & changing naming strategies (it's Java 6 update 5, or it's 1.4.2, it's SDK or JDK or JRE or J2EE, etc.). They never marketed back towards the programmers working with the interpreted languages (which, fyi, are often easily as complex as any compiled language - some are far more, with heavy reflection & dynamic coding, etc., so "script kiddies" is not applicable to the entire non-java side of the house).
Obviously not ALL the reasons, but I think those 3 are the bulk of the reason. That said, I'll have to disagree with a lot of the folks that have been calling the java dev environments too complex, too bloated, etc. I think we're actually at the crossroads point where the two camps are meeting up, driven by ajax/comet & the push for rich clients. I've just spent the last 2 weeks evaluating various javascript toolkit libraries, server-side solutions, MVC frameworks, flash/dhtml hybrids like Haxe or Laszlo, etc. Aside from a couple of hundred no longer under development, there are some great choices from the "scripting side". I've also begun looking at the Java side (which of course usually converts to JS/DHTML, but I mean java as in coding it on the server). I have to say, I'm impressed. Netbeans and WaveMaker both have pretty nice drag-n-drop wysiwyg-type web dev environments in their IDEs. I've always coded by hand, but in less than a day I cranked out some decent examples...I think it's certainly on par with anything from the interpreted/scripting camp as far as rapid-dev goes (assuming a website with at least a few pages, DB, some UI glitter).
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|Dan Tripp 04/12/08 12:37:11 AM EDT
> Because they've been dooped into thinking you have to
Who have folks been "duped" by? That seems pretty absurd to me.
I'd guess, though, if anybody's been doing any "duping" it's software developers who create Java frameworks and try to pass them off as necessary and also book publishers who want to sell you books on those frameworks.
I'm no fan of the "one language to rule them all" mentality that a lot of folks seems to embrace in favor of supporting their language of choice. I agree with Chad Fowler/ Dave Thomas' assertions about learning a new language "every year*" because that keeps one engaged in learning and developing what really SHOULD matter: one's brain.
* (I'm not smart or disciplined enough to learn a new language every year, so I've decided that "every 2-3 years" is good 'nuff for me.)
|Dan Tripp 04/12/08 12:27:40 AM EDT
I started with PHP and Perl, later spent some time learning (some) Java, and now I'm all into Ruby (and Rails).
PHP was awesome, and opened up the world of web development for me. After a while, I thought "maybe I should learn Java" so I gave it a crack and read and re-read Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in Java." I tried to wade through the acronym soup that Java Web Application Development seemed to be, but in the end my experience with Java was that it flat-out hurt my brain.
When I encountered Ruby (and Rails) it "just made sense" to me, and it continues to make sense to me. I recently worked on some PHP code for a friend, and I found it tedious and a bit irritating to work with. I'd bet that if I spent time re-learning OO PHP and used some of the cool "new" stuff (like the Cake framework, etc.), though that I'd probably dig it too.
Java flat-out hurts my brain, i think largely because of its verbosity. I don't really like to look at code that makes me work hard to understand it. Yes, there are tons of things that would be better to do in it vs. an interpreted language, but Ruby allows me to do the voodoo I wanna do with syntax that makes more sense to me.
I don't see the point in being "religious" about what language one uses. One should pick a tool for them that works and enables them to Get Stuff Done. For most of the nails I need to pound, a red hammer works just as well as a green one.
|Tim 04/10/08 02:40:41 AM EDT
I've worked with the spectrum of languages and environments, from mainframe Cobol, to client/server with Powerbuilder, to web with Java/JSP. The style has progressed from a monolithic 5000 line cobol program (easy to maintain) to 5000 several-line code snippets or settings in various places like taglibs and xml descriptors (a nightmare as the app grows). The mindset that goes along with Java and the way it is presented by Sun is "let's take a simple problem and give it the most complex solution possible". Case in point: JSTL. Why learn another (useless and cryptic) language when we can use java snippets and we ALL know Java already! We're already using Java, Javascript, HTML, SQL, and a framework like Struts in any given project, so why add another when its not necessary? That's the stupidity that turns people away from Java.
|Deanston 04/07/08 03:23:34 AM EDT
|Grant Alan Friedline 04/03/08 04:40:11 PM EDT
Oooh oooh oooh can I answer this one (hand in the air like the annoying 5th grader who answers every question)! Where to start. Okay, first and foremost if you get hosting from a "normal" web host PHP comes bundled in. PHP is free, fast, and well documented, so why do I have to go looking for alternatives? Finally, by the time you figure out what a WAR file is you could have read War And Peace. Now if you don't mind, I'm going back to hang out with the cool kids.
|Michal 04/03/08 08:58:55 AM EDT
Doing what everybody is doing is the best way for a failure.
Java lacks a dynamism. That's what Ruby has. To build website you don't need miriad of frameworks, you need something simple. Java doesn't provide that. Java is very constraining environment. And most of those milions of Java developers are very bad software developers. Their software simply sucks - just look around.
|Springboard Software 04/02/08 05:40:19 PM EDT
Trackback Added: Choosing Ruby or PHP over Java?; In a recent article on CRM Developers Journal, Coach Wei asks: Why Do 'Cool Kids' Choose Ruby or PHP to Build Websites Instead of Java?
|darayush 04/02/08 05:35:50 PM EDT
@lifewithryan - Agree with your comment.
|lifewithryan 04/02/08 05:25:02 PM EDT
I just want to addrress #4 -- I agree with your other points and think they're valid, however while Java suffers from some misconceptions, one of the common misconceptions with PHP is that its all scripts-based. Not true, I haven't release a script-based website in a long time. My sites are very truly OO. Ruby is ALL OO as everything in Ruby is an object so, point #4 is kinda misleading for the newbie. I think this common misconception is why the Java folks dismiss PHP so easily.
That being said, its clear that even the Java people know that Java is getting too heavy handed...why else would we have Groovy/Grails now? (I'm using that right now on a project and would probably use it more often if Java hosting wasn't so friggin' expensive. Having said that, even if Java hosting became as cheap as other plans, I'd still use PHP first, Grails second and Rails third. Java...nearly dead last ahead of .Net...
|darayush 04/02/08 05:06:01 PM EDT
I think this article is like the dangling chad from Florida. It starts with a very potent question and in the end leaves the reader clueless, infact I was looking for the next/page2 link thinking we're still talking.
#1 - The perception that Java is best used as a middle tier logic processing language.
#2 - The fact that as a novice you can these days Google and pull together a website much faster using Ruby or PHP than Googling the term Java.
#3 - Java and its outgrowths have become too complex for their own good that often carries a heavy baggage and now needs some undoing to make it lightweight.
#4 - Writing and more importantly reading code these days for monkey see monkey do kind of developers - scripting is much easier than writing in a full blown strong typed, OO language.
#5 - Java now has the same legacy brand association issues as the languages like C and C++ that it replaced.
Now you might say these are mostly non-technical and perception issues and Java is much stronger technology-wise etc etc. According to me its much more difficult to change perceptions than prove technology so Java has its job cut out for it.
|Murali 04/02/08 01:25:16 PM EDT
People have to realize not to abuse uncluttered feedbacks from people with advertisement and that too at the cost of sys-con.com. Please don't even visit www.indiajobplace.com or www.indiajobster.com. Need to teach a lesson to these b*s.
|Rochak Chauhan 04/02/08 08:55:07 AM EDT
Well guys, gone are the days when is was safe to make the statement "Java is the answer, what was the question?"
Today in my opinion building / coding a web application in JAVA is like killing a housefly with a bazooka. I am not saying that you can not do that. Of source you can, but then you are working hard, not smart :)
PHP and ROR have come a long long way and now ready to handle any enterprise level application. Open your eyes guys.. Facebook and Flick are running on PHP and not JAVA.
Why ? well... its the rule #1 of coding..
Talking about frameworks, IDE and platforms.. PHP and ROR have all now.. for dog sake... even SUN is adding support for PHP in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 !!!
|George 04/02/08 12:50:01 AM EDT
Script Kiddies use PHP / Rails because they don't know what RAS (reliability, availability, serviceability) means. CF too, has this problem even though it's based on Java Technology.
I guess once they grown up and figure out that systems have to be reliable. 99% of these script kiddies don't even understand what transaction demarcation.
|Terrance.MacGregor 03/06/08 11:43:54 PM EST
Three Letters: GWT
|rey 03/06/08 03:34:45 PM EST
"I find Java too cumbersome for the front-end," because you've been duped. You can use JSP just like PHP. You don't have to make everything as complicated as you think you do.
|rey 03/06/08 03:33:17 PM EST
"Silly comparison. I like Java but when it comes to web apps I can run circles around Java with PHP. As someone mentioned its a dynamic language what will let you get away with things you can't possibly do in Java or any other strongly typed language." FALACY! Just declare all your variables as Object type and you can use Java as a dynamically typed language. Sure you might have to use "instance of" but you can do it.
public Object doSomething(Object variable)
|rey 03/06/08 03:29:13 PM EST
Because they've been dooped into thinking you have to compile Java servlets and beans to use Java or that you need Struts or Hibernate of JSF. You don't. You can just do everything in JSP if you want a quick and dirty PHP or Ruby like Java experience.
|Phil 02/12/08 03:28:47 PM EST
Silly comparison. I like Java but when it comes to web apps I can run circles around Java with PHP. As someone mentioned its a dynamic language what will let you get away with things you can't possibly do in Java or any other strongly typed language. I was able to write and ActiveRecord style base class that allows me to make DAO's without having to add a single property or method to get the basic CRUD functionality. This doesn't require any cumbersome framework either.
The drawback of PHP and Rails is that they are web specific and can't compete in general programming with Java. I would say that the better question is why doesn't Java take a page from these two and harness their true power. But I am smart enough to know what when you grow beyond the complexity of web apps that strong typed languages gain an advantage.
|jmike 02/02/08 12:03:44 PM EST
Coach Wei's has written so nice blog....why RAVI (from India possibly)...comments on such irrelevant matters( advertising)...BTW this is technical site and of course a logical milestone...god bless you RAVI!!!
|Thomas 01/25/08 08:11:20 PM EST
I have about twenty years development experience, from assembly to FORTRAN, C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, and most recently Ruby and Rails.
I can have a web site up and running before a Java guy would have finished editing his first XML configuration file.
Ruby is a full featured dynamic language that also plays well with C libraries (unlike Java), so I can write the bits in C that need better performance and call them from Ruby.
I can scale my sites using a service-based architecture by simply adding commodity hardware.
Ruby is fun to program in and its dynamic nature allows you to do things you can't do in Java (look up 'method_missing' in the Ruby docs).
Statically typed languages are like training wheels. They may keep you from falling over, but if you know how to ride a bike they just get in the way.
|Jeff G 01/24/08 04:13:09 PM EST
Why even mention Ruby or PHP in this article, why not just call it 'I like Java and so should everyone else'. I am a Java developer, though like most others I have written code in many languages. For work that needs to get done quickly, I do like to use Rails. Especially for small sites and internal thin web-apps, it really is hard to beat Rails or PHP for speed of development compared to Java.
|Kavitha Bangalore 01/22/08 12:09:28 PM EST
When it comes to using Java Collections, i agree there is a lot embedded into the java.util...But i have always felt, if only SUN could make it more simpler and have lesser classes which could be used on a need basis.
|Ravi 01/17/08 12:26:33 PM EST
Check out http://www.indiaJobPlace.com (IndiaJobPlace.com)
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You dont have to go to multiple job sites to search for jobs posted. IndiaJobPlace.com does that for you and shows you jobs from all the job portals in one place!
You can do a search on IndiaJobPlace (http://www.IndiaJobPlace.com) by location and keyword easliy with one click can even email the job results to yourself or anyone that you know!
They also provide a way to filter the job results by the job board.
Try IndiaJobPlace.com It's cool! and its free… no advertisements or annonying pop ups!
|Krishna Sapkota 01/15/08 05:25:04 AM EST
Hi...That's right...I guess the readily available tools for java is the problem for kids to cope with the java things. You know for example downloading eclipse plugin...installing it...configuring it with installed web server...On the other hand for example for PHP a bundle tools tools is available that contains server..interpreter...database (WOW! for kids)and of course many have good market on hosting small platform websites...I guess on the total pages we have in WWW ...Many of them are small business scale sites...That's the reason!!!
|Troy Tarrant 01/13/08 08:54:56 PM EST
The answer is Seam. It reduces the complexity of JSF development and leverages off EJB3. Ajax enabled as well. I am currently working on a J2EE project at the moment and it is hard work. Other side projects I use Seam and can rapidly get ideas to prototype stage knowing full well that they are backed by solid technology and design patterns.
|santosh 01/09/08 01:05:48 AM EST
Check out http://www.indiaJobster.com (IndiaJobster.com)
IndiaJobster.com launched last week and indexes all the jobs from India ( currently more than
3,25,000 jobs and thousands are added everday and are listed from all the major Indian job
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You dont have to go to multiple job sites to search for jobs posted. IndiaJobster.com does
that for you and shows you jobs from all the sites in one place!
You can do a search on IndiaJobster (http://www.IndiaJobster.com) by location and keyword
easliy with one click and get all the jobs in one place. You can even email the job search
results to yourself!
They also provide a way to filter the job results by the job board.
Try IndiaJobster.com It's cool! and its free… no advertisements or annonying pop ups!
|Jeff Small 01/04/08 06:17:33 PM EST
So, did I miss something? The question of why not Java for building websites was posed, with no real answer: just some unsatisfactory options. Leaves the reader dangling. Seems to me if you're going to write an article like this, you put forth an answer, otherwise you just submit it in a Java Forun entry.
By the way, Alfresco and Liferay are very powerful Java technologies for doing web development.
|David 12/30/07 10:24:32 PM EST
I too use ColdFusion over JAVA or .NET because I can get web apps out the door so quickly. Using JAVA is like swatting a fly with a 2*4.
|sage 12/29/07 07:46:12 PM EST
Because eclipse and netbeans are both a turn off.
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This week on a special edition of Monday Morning Radio, host and veteran journalist Dean Rotbart has assembled a panel of five experts who address the question: How will the election of Donald Trump impact small business owners and entrepreneurs – and what can YOU do to protect yourself – and to take advantage of fresh opportunities.
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What are the greatest rewards, and the greatest frustrations, of owning your own small business?
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Originally posted by jibeho
You said the lie started in this forum... IT DID NOT.
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
During his confirmation hearing when he was being questioned about it [friends of hamas] Democrats stopped the session.
Originally posted by jibeho
So, how do you feel about Hagel? Maybe you can be the mouthpiece for those who can't answer the question.
May 2011
The Republican Party has drifted so far to the right and become so partisan in recent years that President Ronald Reagan wouldn't even want to be a part of it, former Nebraska GOP senator Chuck Hagel told The Cable.
"Reagan wouldn't identify with this party. There's a streak of intolerance in the Republican Party today that scares people. Intolerance is a very dangerous thing in a society because it always leads to a tragic ending," he said. "Ronald Reagan was never driven by ideology. He was a conservative but he was a practical conservative. He wanted limited government but he used government and he used it many times. And he would work with the other party."
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by buster2010
There is nothing honest about government the founders knew this they would not have welcomed a "NWO".
Originally posted by BritofTexas
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
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Just how behind the times are you? It's like you're stuck in 2011 somewhere.
Or do just get your "news" from the MSM?
edit on 15-2-2013 by NOTurTypical because: (no reason given)
Ok. Third time may be the charm.
Do you have any EVIDENCE to back up your claim.
Originally posted by jibeho
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Like how you took the focus off the Contributions from Friends of Hamas and shifted to the Dems. walking out of the hearing .. you should go back to your original post on this particular topic. You love to move those goal posts ... Keep Trying...
Chuck Hagel, has not turned over requested documents on his sources of foreign funding is that one of the names listed is a group purportedly called "Friends of Hamas."
Yesterday, 25 senators sent a letter to Hagel demanding information on his foreign funding. Hagel has refused all such requests, prompting the senators to state, "in the judgment of the undersigned, a Committee vote on your nomination should not occur unless and until you provide the requested information."
Originally posted by Indigo5
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Briebart has already been debunked...there is no "Friends of Hamas"...and can you point me to where Dems. closed the hearing after questions about this? Cuz that seemed just a bald-faced lie? Ya know they have reporters at those hearings? cameras etc?
Originally posted by Indigo5
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Briebart has already been debunked...there is no "Friends of Hamas"...and can you point me to where Dems. closed the hearing after questions about this? Cuz that seemed just a bald-faced lie? Ya know they have reporters at those hearings? cameras etc?
Originally posted by Indigo5
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I don't give a crap about some letter the GOP sent him with demands....YOU claimed that Democrats shut down the hearing after he was questioned about "Friends of Hamas"
IT NEVER HAPPENED and that bit of BS wasn't on Briebart...you made it up...and Briebart made up the Friends of Hamas bit...that has been proven bunk.
You are hilarious... pretending that we are discussing some letter about his finances....
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Armed Services Committee delayed a vote on Chuck Hagel's confirmation as secretary of defense, the panel's chairman said on Wednesday, amid Republican demands for more information from President Barack Obama's nominee.
"The committee's vote on Senator Hagel's nomination has not been scheduled," Senator Carl Levin said in a statement. "I had hoped to hold a vote on the nomination this week, but the committee's review of the nomination is not yet complete."


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I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things
by Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
I Dream
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Oh, I have dreams. I sometimes dream of Life
In the full meaning of that splendid word.
Its subtle music which few men have heard,
Though all may hear it, sounding through earth's strife.
Its mountain heights by mystic breezes kissed
Lifting their lovely peaks above the dust;
Its treasures which no touch of time can rust,
Its emerald seas, its dawns of amethyst,
Its certain purpose, its serene repose,
Its usefulness, that finds no hour for woes,
This is my dream of Life.
Yes, I have dreams. I ofttimes dream of Love
As radiant and brilliant as a star.
As changeless, too, as that fixed light afar
Which glorifies vast worlds of space above.
Strong as the tempest when it holds its breath,
Before it bursts in fury; and as deep
As the unfathomed seas, where lost worlds sleep,
And sad as birth, and beautiful as death.
As fervent as the fondest soul could crave,
Yet holy as the moonlight on a grave.
This is my dream of Love.
Yes, yes, I dream. One oft-recurring dream
Is beautiful and comforting and blest,
Complete with certain promises of rest,
Divine content, and ecstasy supreme.
When that strange essence, author of all faith,
That subtle something, which cries for the light,
Like a lost child who wanders in the night,
Shall solve the mighty mystery of Death,
Shall find eternal progress, or sublime
And satisfying slumber for all time.
This is my dream of Death.
I am the Wizard
by Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am the Wizard. This world is mine.
I speak. It's done. My realm is fine.
My wand, my tongue. My sword, my voice.
It's good. It's bad. I speak my choice.
I say happy, or I say mad.
I say angry, or I say glad.
I name that drawing on the wall.
It's not graffiti after all.
The past has been broken. The prison's not real.
My word holds the magic - the power to heal.
Intent is my weapon - a sword from above.
Cruel hate, fear, and anger transmute into love.
This world's my joy. This mouth's my toy.
Reborn -I'm a brand new girl or boy.
I choose. I speak. My will is done.
Come join. Come play. This can be fun.
Suspended between earth and sky
by Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Suspended between earth and sky,
my humanity draws from both,
my tendrils reach for the energies of each.
Spirit and Ground - equal yet opposite,
the lightness and the solidarity,
the ephemeral and the substantial.
The substantial is no more and no less
than the ephemeral - merely different.
In the Night
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Sometimes at night, when I sit and write,
I hear the strangest things, -
As my brain grows hot with burning thought,
That struggles for form and wings,
I can hear the beat of my swift blood's feet,
As it speeds with a rush and a whir
From heart to brain and back again,
Like a race-horse under the spur.
With my soul's fine ear I listen and hear
The tender Silence speak,
As it leans on the breast of Night to rest,
And presses his dusky cheek.
And the darkness turns in its sleep, and yearns
For something that is kin;
And I hear the hiss of a scorching kiss,
As it folds and fondles Sin.
In its hurrying race through leagues of space,
I can hear the Earth catch breath,
As it heaves and moans, and shudders and groans,
And longs for the rest of Death.
And high and far, from a distant star,
Whose name is unknown to me,
I hear a voice that says, "Rejoice,
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Oh, sweet and strange are the sounds that range
Through the chambers of the night;
And the watcher who waits by the dim, dark gates
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- Would-be gamblers from at least 23 states tried to log onto casino gambling websites in the first night of New Jersey's test of online betting.
Matt Katz is CEO of CAMS LLC, which provides geolocation technology to the Taj Mahal and Trump Plaza, and age verification technology to the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. He told The Associated Press those attempts show why New Jersey's fledgling Internet gambling industry needs strict safeguards to keep out-of-state residents from gambling online here.
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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) -- The U.S. will assert its sovereignty in the Arctic, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned Friday, even as Russia, China and other nations stake claims and expand their use of the icy waters for military exercises and transit.
Speaking at a security forum, Hagel said energy exploration in the largely untapped Arctic region could heighten international tensions, but that countries must work together to avoid conflict,
"We will remain prepared to detect, deter, prevent and defeat threats to our homeland and we will continue to exercise U.S. sovereignty in and around Alaska," Hagel said, as he unveiled the Pentagon's new Arctic strategy.
With a nod to the increased interest in the Arctic's lucrative oil and gas deposits, he added: "Throughout human history, mankind has raced to discover the next frontier. And time after time, discovery was swiftly followed by conflict. We cannot erase this history. But we can assure that history does not repeat itself in the Arctic."
Hagel's comments came as the military finalized plans to expand operations in the vast waters of the Arctic, where melting ice caps are opening sea lanes and giving nations like Russia greater access to the oil and gas deposits.
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Tim Berners-Lee, who launched the Web in 1990, made the remarks as he released his World Wide Web Foundation's annual report tracking the Web's impact and global censorship. The index ranked Sweden first in Web access, openness and freedom, followed by Norway, the U.K. and the United States.
"One of the most encouraging findings of this year's Web Index is how the Web and social media are increasingly spurring people to organize, take action and try to expose wrongdoing in every region of the world," said Berners-Lee, 58.
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The warning from Berners-Lees is the latest in a global debate about surveillance and privacy, sparked by the release of classified documents leaked by former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden that showed the extent of government spying on people's online lives. While the leaks focused on the work of the NSA, scrutiny has since spread to other Western intelligence agencies.
Friday's report said online spying and blocking are on the rise around the world, and politically sensitive Web content is blocked in almost one in three countries. Despite their high overall rankings, the U.S. and Britain both received mediocre scores for safeguarding users' privacy.


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Temple Sholom
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A Sabbath program and Havdalah dinner will take place Saturday at 6:30 p.m.
Call 860-354-0273 or visit www.tsholom.org for information.
Jewish Center
DANBURY -- Rabbi Clifford Librach and Cantor Penny Kessler will conduct a service Friday at 7:30 p.m. at 141 Deer Hill Ave. The sermon will be "Danger and Opportunity in the Torah."
Saturday morning's service begins at 10, with the sermon "Let's Stay in Touch!" The lesson will be Metzora.
Prospective members are welcome. For more information, call 203-748-3355 or www.unitedjewishcenter.org.
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According to the NY Post, 30-year-old Parker – aka Eva Longoria's ex – wants club W.i.P to pay him a whopping $20 million for his troubles, which he says include lacerations to his cornea, allegedly caused by shards of glass that flew when bottles did.
The basis of Parker's suit: W.i.P. never should have let Brown and Drake into the club in the first place.
"You're throwing gasoline on the flames," Parker's lawyer, David Jaroslawicz, told the Post of the club giving both Drake and Brown bottle service for the night.
Jaroslawicz even pointed a finger at pop star Rihanna, who has dated both Drake, 25, and Brown, 23, and was allegedly the root of the ruckus.
"She's been known, like Helen of Troy, to cause trouble," Jaroslawicz said.
Parker, meanwhile, says he'll be out of commission for a week as his eye heals with the help of a "therapeutic" contact lens. He's scheduled to play with the French team at the Summer Olympics, but said, "I'll be missing the start … because I can't do anything for a week except keep the lens in and then take drops."
Jaroslawicz added that while the extent of Parker's injuries are not yet known, they "certainly don't improve your outside shot."


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A former Cook County judge has been tapped to serve as a special prosecutor in the cases of five men seeking new trials due to alleged police brutality under disgraced former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge.
Stuart A. Nudelman was appointed by Criminal Court Presiding Judge Paul Biebel Jr. after the Illinois Attorney General's office asked him to reassign the cases to the Cook County State's Attorney's office.
But attorneys for defendants Alonzo Smith, Eric Caine, Derrick King, Leonard Kidd and Grayland Johnson argued that the cases were originally turned over to the attorney general because of conflicts of interest involving then-State's Atty. Richard Devine. They said the conflict still exists because current State's Atty. Anita Alvarez was a high-ranking prosecutor under Devine.


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Author Notes: An easy and elegant spin on a classic drink that serves as an anytime pick-me-up —Trent Pottala
Serves: 1
ounces Rittenhouse Rye Whiksey
ounce Earl Grey Simple Syrup
ounce Lemon Juice
Egg White
- For simple syrup: Combine 1 cup sugar and 1 cup water in a saucepan and bring to boil. Add 1 tablespoon of loose earl grey tea, and a few sprigs of lavender if available. Let steep for 20 minutes. Strain, cool, and bottle.
- For cocktail: Combine whiskey, syrup, lemon juice, and egg white in a shaker. Forcefully dry shake for ~15 seconds. Fill shaker with ice and shake for another 15 seconds – a beautiful egg cocktail should nearly have a head of froth as opposed to just a small layer on top. Strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Cocktail
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