Alternative explanations for the 0xCAFEBABE magic sequence in all Java .class files.
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19 April 2002 6:07 pm
Archived posts with tag: General
Salon: Sexy specs. ‘Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses.’? Well, not this one :-).
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18 April 2002 3:07 pm
Flangy: I’m working on the assumption here, possibly misguided, that women just love going to a bachelor’s apartment and seeing a shelf with a bunch of pin-up girly books on it.
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7:54 am
(Via Jeb Trowbridge): Given this “knowledge is power” mindset, how do you get people excited about revealing their insights and knowledge in the public domain?. Good question. John Robb can share knowledge and insight because it is in sync with Userland’s strategic interests. As a Forrester consultant, he would have found this harder to do (not impossible though). On the other hand, academia and strategic thinkers should take to sharing knowledge via the web like a duck to water — if nothing else, the web gives them a great sounding board.
Inside an organization, it’s a completely different story. Organizations which encourage knowledge-sharing emerge stronger, so K-Logs are a natural fit for this environment.
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5:10 am
The Register: Sun concentrates tools under ONE Brand.
[Sun Senior Director] Marty Robins told ComputerWire, is “to take all 40,000 Sun employees and get them reading from the same page.” Sun, traditionally a company that revolved around hardware, is now turning in earnest to architecture and software, he said.
Till now, Sun as a software company has sucked. The JCP is good, but it moves too slowly to make many developers feel that Sun is really listening. Worse, the people who really innovate — IBM with SWT, Apache with Log4J — find themselves ignored for the sake of second-rate APIs which will attain popularity for no other reason than the fact that Sun is backing them. (more…)
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4:22 pm
