... I think I'm one of the few to disagree with him. I tried posting this comment on his site, but his comments appear to be broken: Just my $0.02, but I think...
Rob, Ding ding ding.... and We have a winner! For some reason, MSQuery32 will take it...JDBC-ODBC will not...working now. The column (4) was throwing me off...
Sorry for the late response. Just got a spare moment to breathe and cycle back to this. ... Ah. So sounds like the big speed gain was from Grails/Rails...
As Jon Strayer pointed out, it was no trouble to find these papers online. If someone can't be bothered to copy and paste the title of a paper into google,...
... I'm with you on that. I'm not sold on the Rails/Grails tutorials that don't demonstrate "real-world" scenarios. Not that those frameworks and languages...
... I probably would enjoy the challenge and improvement to my skills of learning a dynamically typed language (probably Ruby or Python). And I'm certainly...
For this job I just added Rhino to our application which gives us a non-user JavaScript scripting ability. Something like that could be useful for many...
I have been playing around with groovy and do like it. Unfortunately I am not using it in a project and it is definitely starting to atrophy. I am planning to...
... The problem is this is a feature of academic publishing in general. Very large and powerful publishing interests control it, and lets face it, in most...
Saw this in a job spec sent to me by a recruiter today: "Overall, they need an individual with a huge breast of knowledge." lol! A virtual beer goes out to the...
... "I believe that I am well suited for this position as I have detailed knowledge of huge breasts." Simon Mac Donald Email: simon.macdonald@... Blog:...
... Hic! Daavid ur a bootifull man. Did I, did I ever tell yooooo..../sound of man falling off bar stool/ Simon Mac Donald Email: simon.macdonald@... ...
We have an application at a customer's site. It can make data requests of the customer's BizTalk server. The responses are written to a file on a different...
Hi Jon, Seems reasonable. IME, time based solutions rarely work. A long standing solution to this problem is to have the writer either atomically expose the...
... I suppose. Perhaps, then, you could try acquiring an exclusive FileLock on the file. (See: http://java.sun.com/developer/JDCTechTips/2002/tt0924.html#1)...
... What are you really trying to do? Determine if the java compiler is available? Because other than detecting if some of the JDK tools are available, I'm...
... I suppose you mean in the directory specified by System.getProperty("java.home") + "/bin" But I don't think that will work on a Mac OS X; the tools are not...
... The m2eclipse plugins for Eclipse (Maven integration) require that Eclipse be running in a JDK to work properly (don't ask me the specifics of why,...
... I dumped my system properties, and it looks like there's a few that could help. (i.e., perhaps they look different when running under a JRE vs. a JDK) ...
Eric, I know its not graceful, but why don't you use a classloader to detect the classes. If they aren't found, disable the features. Mica ... From:...