Reinstalling EEEPC 900

For third time, I did full reinstall of EEEPC 900. And this time I decided to try . After very long installation, and post cleanup system seems to work rather fine. Post cleanup naturally involved throwing away gnome stuff and firefox, after installing some better browser like opera. And for text editor, of course, lightweight…

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Web is not open

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…

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Fun for living

It’s nice to live experimental life, isn’t this whole world just experimental beta version, which hopefully will be revised to 1.0 version in sometime. Well, while waiting that, must do own experiments. Like doing profiling: Photo Album (access rights, and concerning privacy laws apply, so beware) I kicked in profiling into prototype, and not so…

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Time to change language

Should consider switching programming language in use into this instead, or another good option is this one. That would take space and brace wars into completely different level. Need to pick either one for next big project. Update: 23.2.2012 Or could throw a dice and pick one of these languages.

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Once upon a time there was java…

Little java jumped around, and growed eventually so big that it hide even the sun. And so little java became older and fatter. I tried to exercise, but big boys were teasing it and pushing it in the playground, but java continued furiously ahead, believing to that it will be The One… so story goes,…

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SQL vs. O-O

Interesting question to ask, at this time and date, is if using SQL DBs make much sense if anything more than very simple object hierarchies are stored into DB. Plain fact is that there is huge mismatch in models used in relational DB and O-O (like java). Mapping Object structures into DB lead very easily…

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JDK 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…

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Is it possible to do O-O in java

So question is: Is it possible to do Object Oriented Programming in java? This presentation gave some insights into issue. Jumping into conclusion fast: yes, it’s possible if being careful, and always using interfaces. This part ”always using interfaces” is interesting, since that’s anyway something what I’ve always considered to be good way of doing…

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