Whilst discussing J2ME yesterday there was a brief discussion on the efficiencies of Vodaphone/Telecom. If I am interpreting the following URL correctly: ...
Isn't that partly what Telecom is being slammed in the media for? (a) It isn't generally broadband (b) no-one else (except now Telstraclear) can survive on the...
... Remember the days when we used to be at the forefront of communications tech. When we'd get the new toys first because we're a small environment to test...
And to add fuel to the fire.... if you scaled the population size and density of NZ against Slovenia then the figures would look considerably worse. ... From:...
The first is a competition by Sun. Find a regression test failure in Mustang, and be in line to win a work station: https://mustang.dev.java.net/regchal/ ...
As a new resident coming from the U.S. I'm pretty baffled by the situation. Sometimes it seems like the government is a subsidiary of Telecom. Not that...
... Nope - TelstraClear are forced to do this - eg, get cable, get a phoneline + internet - by Telecom. That was their "BOHICA" concession for getting closer...
... Ah, so Telecom truly is the source of all evil in this area... ... The wireless looks like it may be a great option in the long run, but 256K international...
... And then some. Even Microsoft folks will not deal with them* :) BTW, Vodafone is no better. $30/meg for roaming data? EXCUSE ME?! And around $2/meg when...
Somebody told me about this site a while back... http://www.telescum.co.nz/ I'm sure you guys will appreciate it having read some of this thread! Jonathan...
Martin, I asked the question and had the following pointed out to me: "So I'm not a lawyer or anything but it looks to me as if you are eligible if *either*...
OK, there are more words later in the contest FAQ that make this statement false. So unfortunately, if the country is not listed you cannot enter. I won't bore...
I'm quite thrilled by Eclipse's assisted refactoring features for Java. How do other IDE's for Java compare with regards to refactoring? Are there other...
I've heard very good things about IDEA. This is apparently the inspiration for a lot of Eclipse's nicer features (at least according to the IDEA users). I've...
Is this the "Taming the Wild Child" article? http://www.cio.com/weighin/column.html?CID=17303 <http://www.cio.com/weighin/column.html?CID=17303> I work in an...
I have yet to meet a disciplined engineer. And no, it wasn't Brian- he is on the CIO advisory board for Borland :-) ... Richard Vowles, Solutions Architect,...
There's a few here - some architects as well - they use the same balance Brian outlines - for managing creativity. -> Max ... From: nzjava@yahoogroups.com...
... In my limited recient Java experience, IDEA rocks. I use ReSharper, personally - IntelliJ's Visual Studio plug in that tries to do a lot of what IDEA does...
... I too used to find various IDE's "nice enough" until I tried IDEA. There's no going back now for me! It's truly great (especially if you're an efficiency...
... Also, IntelliJ IDEA 5.1 came out today and they've got a special price of US$250ish for a new licence or $149 for an upgrade. If you haven't yet upgraded...
For me it's more a lifestyle choice than a cost issue. I'd purchased at least 2 different Java IDEs with several upgrades before I finally just lost interest...
A reminder that the February Wellington Java User Group meeting is being held today: 8th February, 2006 5.00pm for 5:15-6:30pm The venue is to be: Sun Level 9 ...
... I'm curious: have you ever actually DONE it? I think I'd find that there is no way I could make enough changes to warrant not paying the $150US ($220 NZ,...
... Not with Eclipse as of yet, though some issues like the scripting support keep tempting me. ... Perhaps my experience with commercial IDEs was soured by...
... It's also not just about having access to the source, but the build process. Giving the fun to be had compiling up joe-random open source framework,...
After attending Martin's excellent talk yesterday I remembered there's another major JVM distribution route opening up in the near future, the next-generation...