Archive for April, 2008

Apr 30 2008

Unlimited CPU Power, Endless Memory and Syntactic Sugar, or “How I Learned to Stop Obsessing and Love Scripting Languages” (*)

Published byDavid HM Spector under C/C++, Java, OS X, Programming, Ruby/Rails

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 Apologies to Stanley Kubric and Dr. Strangelove.
This is sort of like an intro to some 12-step program..
Hi, I’m David, and I’ve been a computer language bigot.
There. I feel better already.
But seriously, I’ve been a programmer for a long, long time. Not quite as long as my friends Richard, Pete, and Bill [...]

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Apr 30 2008

Apple Releases Java 6 for Real. Finally.

Published byDavid HM Spector under Misc

After several “developer previews” Apple finally releases Java 1.6 yesterday.
It’s only for 64bit Intel machines machines which is kind of a bummer for PPC folks. I hope they decide to remedy that soon.
It can be found on Apple’s Software Download pages.

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