History of web is rather curious. Especially considering the fact that all the time some zealot group is wanting to make web ”open”. Which translates into ”work only with our own system”. ”Open standards” are pushed forward to fight against ”proprietary implements”, which translates actually into ”trying to replace old defacto standard, by our own…
Read moreJDK 7 almost there, but still far not reaching the goal
It’s nice that JDK 7 includes new ”try (…) { … }” construct, but *WHY*, oh, *WHY*, they managed to fail on implementing it in usable manner. To put it shortly, problem is described here: Detect exception in AutoCloseable close() Thus they implemented logic which allows doing automatic close(), but API doesn’t this logic anyway…
Read moreWhy AJAX is useless?
Why it’s useless in real applications? Finally, JavaScript doesn’t have any multithreading capabilities, except whatever comes implicitly from the web browser’s internal use of threads. Another reference: Multi-threading in JavaScript Only thing what javascript (thus AJAX) is currently capable of, is to imitate multithreading, which is 100% different thing than actual multithreading. So there we…
Read moreEclipse 3.3 is crappy slow
After all it turns out that crap factor has overcome over the usability factor. Basically Eclipse 3.3 contains some improvements to speed things up. However, in reality it’s just slower then 3.2.x. Reason for this strangeness is the fact that Eclipse 3.2, made big speed improvement by starting to use jar packaged plugins. This reduced…
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