The Architecture Group has decided to meet on the 1st Wednesday of the month. Given that a few of us want to attend both, until we can discuss the future of...
George A. Smith @ SNS
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Nov 2, 2004 5:05 am
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Wingding (@yahogroups.com) study group, Learning Scheme (the programming language) meeting is Tomorrow: When: 7pm Wednesday, November 17th Where: Bellevue...
George A. Smith @ SNS
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Nov 16, 2004 2:31 pm
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You know, guys, I've just lost interest in Scheme. I'll lurk in the Yahoo Groups for the day when wingdings chooses a new topic. I'm withdrawing from the...
Everyone- I have a proposal for the Wing Ding: Scrub the JDK. I've been intrigued George's pair-programming group. I'd like to get some hand's on experience...
At the last Wingding meeting the question was raised: "Should we continue with Scheme?" While we contemplate the options, there will be no meetings in...
George A. Smith @ SNS
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Nov 27, 2004 5:02 pm
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Hello All, I've been lurking for a while... Jason interviewed me once, caught my interest, and I've been lurking ever since. Work took me up to Bellingham, so...
Howdy- Thanks to Stuart Maclean for the nudge. I removed the spam from the archive. Also, now only members can post to Wing Ding. Fingers Crossed, Jason...
Howdy- Slava Pestov, the jEdit guy, recently posted this entry. The HotSpot source code is a bad joke http://www.jroller.com/page/slava/20050102 I tried to...
... Preprocessors are *hip* baby. Java5 has one called apt. Yeah, sure, we call them "annotation processors" now, but hey, once a duck, always a duck. I also...
I don't know. Constructive criticism is always welcome. This was a rant and provides little useful information. Perhaps it serves as a warning but, still, I...
Hi Wilhelm Fitzpatrick- ... Generating bytecodes on the fly for reflectively invoked methods is utter coolness. But that may not be what's happening. Here's...
Hi Robert Kuhar- It certainly was a rant. It got my attention. So I guessed it worked. <grin> I cited Pestov because it both validated my own experience and...
... I'd be interested in your commentary on the classic Joel on Software "Don't Rewrite" article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html...
... I'd be willing to go out on limb and say that a big reason for that is that the Apache source tree is the subject of daily public inspection, and Sun's...
Hi Wilhelm Fitzpatrick- ... Ah. Joel Spolsky. I can't decide if I'm conflicted or ambivalent about his advice. <grin> I possess the standard geek snobbery...
... Wow. Now isn't that statement pretty much hitting the nail right on the head. I guess that it is an argument for Open Sourcing the whole damn thing. My...
Hi Wilhelm Fitzpatrick- ... Oops. Two more points. I forgot to challenge Joel's skepticism about bit rot. Source code does deteriate with age. For all sorts...
... I mostly agree with your points, but I would express one clarification. It is not that old code that rots. It is that platform shift out from underneath...
I missed this tidbit the first time around: Open Letter to Sun from Eric Raymond http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5961 "...epecially when IBM's intention to...
I stumbed on this article "The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software" at http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm ...
Hi Robert Kuhar- ... Yes. Cheers, Jason Aaron Osgood / Seattle WA __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective:...
That's a really good idea. I'm still slowly plodding my way through SICP. There's some cool stuff ust after where we left off about method dispatch that...
So it looks like we can make a run at this. The questions that remain are when and where. I can host about 8 - 10 at my home in West Seattle, or I can go...
Count me in for any java concurrency discussion too, west side preferred. I'm also willing to host at my house (Wallingford) if it suits people. Stuart...
Hi again all, Chris, I had a look at your page, nice article. One point I want to make, and I guess quite a fundamental one, is that your 'foo' function for...
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