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Sun has not made anything of user interface value over the last five years because of legal bullshit. Android fixes this problem. The reason Android exists is the massive NIH ego of Sun engineers, the total ignorance of Sun management and the fact that AWT/Swing is a desktop API that ignores mobile phones and tablets. Sun ignored video, audio, animation, maps, vector graphics, DPI/PPI differences, multitouch, GPS, sensors and memory consumtion. The AWT/Swing alternative called JavaFX ignores all the problems that Android solves. I respect Mr Goslings work, but AWT/Swing/JavaFX has nothing on Android and is unable to compete with WebOS or Bada from many years ago. Sun Java WebStart was such a bad product it infected more computers with malware than Adobe Flash over several years.

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Posted by JP at 12:51 AM | Permalink

Just add this to your header include file. Upload it to a test server and open five browsers. Then work in one of them. This code is Java based JSP, but you could use a small Javascript snippet as well. This should save you a few hundred clicks or ctrl-r.

You must only do this on the development machine. If you use this on a production system Google will index every single ?refresh= link. So write some code that checks if the server is development or production.

<!-- JSP -->
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="60; ?refresh=<%=new java.util.Date()%>"/>

Posted by JP at 11:28 PM | Permalink

Sun was a supercomputer company. Java is the alternative to IBM operating system VM's running on mainframes. Nobody has that kind of hardware just lying around. Java was designed to run on $1000 SCSI hard-drives and 32Gb of RAM. The focus is on standardization, scalability, portability, buzzwords and expensive catering.

Continue reading "Why not use Java and invokedynamic for dynamic languages everywhere ?" »

Posted by JP at 03:48 AM | Permalink

HP is apparently giving up on making WebOS phones and tablets. Some blame few apps and late hardware. I blame fragmented API's in a fragmented ecosystem pretending to be easy to use. Why is Mojo, Enjo and Node.JS simple when jQuery and Prototype is incompatible anyway ? Coffeescript and GWT sort of proves that people find web development harder than what is officially the accepted truth.

Continue reading "So who threatened HP ?" »

Posted by JP at 11:43 PM | Permalink

Why do I need to agree to the Flash license in order to "upgrade" something ? I stopped using Apple iTunes and Quicktime because of this shit. And Microsoft Zune also uses this demented form for "upgrading". Why do they hate us so much ? Upgrading is now "installing". Because I am "installing" software every week because of security problems !

Add an UNINSTALL button Adobe. That way people can do the safe thing without reading official documentation filled with technical jargon and PR mumbo jumbo.

Posted by JP at 07:09 AM | Permalink

I went to the JavaFX 2.0 beta download page today. And it demanded that I log into Oracle to download the SDK. Just like Apple does with beta software. Except Apple actually cares about developers and produce a Cocoa product that matches Carbon. Oracle is still six months away from delivering JavaFX and that implies a non-mentally-retarded-license.txt and maybe a live Kernel update.

If JavaFX is the future, then use it for something. Just look at Microsoft Expression Blend as an example. If Oracle creates nothing in JavaFX, then why should anyone else ? People hated Swing because they used Swing applications, not because they read a tutorial about JavaBeans and thought manual get/set patterns were super lame.

I closed the Oracle tab and wrote this instead. I can wait a few more years before opening their SDK. There is no rush.

Posted by JP at 02:22 AM | Permalink

So you need Japanese in a J2EE JSP. You do something like this.

<%@page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"%>
<%@taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>
<%@taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt"%>
<c:if test="${param.locale == 'jp'}"><fmt:setLocale value="jp" scope="session"/></c:if>
<fmt:bundle basename="com.example.Example"/>
<fmt:message key="example" var="example"/>
${example}

And then you use native2ascii from the JDK on a UTF-8 file filled with Japanese. You then add this to a property file. And get garbage when running the JSP. Why ?

Because, and I forget this over and over again, the tool exports escaped UTF-16 two byte pairs by default. What you want is:

native2ascii.exe -encoding UTF-8 Example.properties

Posted by JP at 05:11 PM | Permalink

Colorspace (RGB color tool/picker/wheel) has crashed a lot on OS X lately. This is because Apple locks operating system versions to Java versions and this creates problematic third party dependency trees that require multiple internal code paths. I have now given up legacy support and set the minimum Java version to 1.6.

Download the new version of the color tool here.

Posted by JP at 10:12 AM | Permalink

The Colorspace history dialog is now part of the standard and free feature set. The Mac OS X build might be broken due to a problem with the automatic build system. 64bit builds are available for Windows and Ubuntu Linux, but 32bit executables are most likely the best option because of issues with the way Java VM's are installed. JRE_HOME and TEPPEFALL_JVM can be used to select a specific Java VM.

Free color tool for web developers (screenshot).

Posted by JP at 07:15 AM | Permalink

• Layout/Effects
• Colorspace
• Media Player
• CutNegative
• HybridKit

Posted by JP at 08:44 PM | Permalink

tester

Posted by JP at 03:16 PM | Permalink

Nokia Qt is having somewhat of a Java Swing moment. But C++ coders are much more emotional. They probably make more money ! How did this happen ? Nokia tried to pull a JavaFX with QML and lost focus on what really matters. And what really matters ? Well, it ain't compact syntax and book writers.

Nokia wants Expression Blend, Visual Studio and Adobe Creative Suite vector importers. And stores that are not fictional. Advertising platforms with thousands of clients, etc.

Nokia new strategic direction. What is the future for Qt?.
Update on Qt.

Posted by JP at 03:36 PM | Permalink

Teppefall DevGrid alpha 1.

Posted by JP at 11:42 PM | Permalink

Salesforce Unveils Database Product, Taking On Oracle.

Salesforce's Heroku Acquisition Redefines Cloud Computing.

Ruby on Rails Support Discontinued in NetBeans IDE.

Is Oracle being paranoid or just pragmatic ?

Posted by JP at 05:08 PM | Permalink

This article makes me wonder if the Oracle/Google lawsuit is 50 percent based on "some guy commited something to source control because".

Maybe we should call it console fire ? Like as in "helmet fire". Maybe too dramatic.

Posted by JP at 10:25 PM | Permalink

I forgot to mention it, but Teppefall DevGrid looks the way it does because it has been designed for mobile devices and tablets.

The clue to getting it right is this HTML meta tag:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=yes, maximum-scale=1.0"/>

You also need to use min-width and max-width CSS values instead of fixed values and sometimes use percentage based layout that floats to the left. I also add extra CSS if a mobile device is connected to reduce vertical space requirements. Overflow rules are used to hide wide images.

Posted by JP at 01:50 AM | Permalink

This is the first "cloud based" product from Teppefall. More information will come over the next couple of months. It runs on Google AppEngine and is standard J2EE plus a few Google extensions. JavaMail, Twitter4J and XMPP works great.

Posted by JP at 11:10 PM | Permalink

Because of this phone mobile privacy article in the WSJ, the Norwegian Data Inspectorate chief is going to "deal with" Angry Birds. It turns out that Angry Birds is sending contact data from the phone to the Crystal game network, which might be problematic if the license agreement does not make this perfectly clear. And since Angry Birds simply points to a website, this might not be enough to stay compliant with current regulation.

Continue reading "Angry Birds targeted by Norwegian Data Inspectorate (Datatilsynet)" »

Posted by JP at 08:15 PM | Permalink

Here are my nominations (Updated *):

• 8 - Every single Sun evangelist who claimed Java UI was on track has quit or stopped talking.


• 7 - JavaFX Mobile Profile and Java Store turns out to be Schwartz (hot air).


• 6 - Sony Ericsson, listed as a JavaFX supporter, releases top of the line Android phones*.


• 5 - Apple thinks J2SE is a waste of time because of braindead JavaFX royalty play*.


• 4 - James Gosling quits!


• 3 - Oracle pulls a SCO against Google. JavaFX language probably killed because of the lawsuit.


• 2 - Oracle pisses on Apache Software Foundation over TCK. Because hating your friends is cool.


• 1 - Apache tells JCP to go **** themselves in concise, well formulated, diplomatic terms.

Posted by JP at 06:17 PM | Permalink

Alpha product. Even the website is alpha. Teppefall HybridKit coming soon to a device near you.

Posted by JP at 08:22 PM | Permalink

Therefore C/C++/Java sucks. QED.

Posted by JP at 06:32 PM | Permalink

The reason Harmony is not getting a TCK is because Oracle wants Android to run a non-standard version of OpenJDK. Oracle wants Google Android as their property. It is like SCO versus IBM. But with a twist. Oracle wants Harmony to legitimize this legal attack through the JCP. Because without Apache Oracle just looks like a bunch of thugs stealing from their own. This is not an attack on Google. It is an attack on open source developers and public standards. SQL, Java, etc.

Continue reading "Calling Oracle's SCO bluff" »

Posted by JP at 05:37 PM | Permalink

Oracle sues Google. IBM joins OpenJDK. Apple drops Mac Java VM.

Well. Freaking. Duh.

Apple has hundreds of thousands of developers making iOS applications and 57 people doing Java Swing development. Every single one who whines about the depreciation of the Mac Java virtual machine is probably some sort of server programmer who whines about not being able to run Eclipse, IntelliJ or Netbeans, without installing a virtual machine, on his or her $5000 SSD MacBook Pro.

Continue reading "Java developers are whiny self-obsessed bitches" »

Posted by JP at 02:02 AM | Permalink

Code signing for everybody, here we come. And yeah, this applies to everyone once the Apple propaganda machine starts talking about dangerous non-MacAppStore non-signed executable files Basically both Microsoft and Apple has decided that code signing is the cure that fixes all those buffer overruns in third party software and/or operating systems. And this is why Java and Flash/PDF is being spanked in public.

Ah well, Sun and Adobe screwed up on security and this is the result. Jobs and Balmer hates incompetent wannabe competitors who makes their platform look bad. The big boys are putting their foot down. Well, for as long as Ubuntu will let them. This might be an opportunity for Ubuntu Linux, Xen and VirtualBox. Some may talk about Google Chrome OS, but to me it looks like a toy for kids.

Posted by JP at 05:34 PM | Permalink

Apple JVM becomes EOL in OS X Lion. InfoQ coverage.

Now Mac OS X JRE is Oracle's problem. Should be easy to perfect Prism when you have complete control.

Posted by JP at 11:57 AM | Permalink