In an amazing moment of WTF I discovered this morning that after installing Mac OS X 10.6 (aka Snow Leopard) that the only version of Java running on it was 1.6. Now as an end-user, people probably won’t care. And I can kind of understand why Apple did it, given that Sun has [...]
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This Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 adds Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05 to your Mac. This update does not replace the existing installation of J2SE 5.0 or change the default version of Java.
For more details on this update, please visit this website: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307403
Please note what the aforementioned article says:
This release is only [...]
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Installing WebLogic 10 on a Mac in OS X isn’t supported by BEA. But it’s possible. Here’s how.
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Mongrel Developer/Creator, Zed Shaw, cut loose on the Ruby and Rails communities in a recent posting to his website. He gives some interesting insights into who the major players are, and cuts through some of the hype surrounding rails.
While caustic in his delivery, he makes excellent points about the industry in general. If you’re [...]
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If you’re a Java developer with a Mac you’ve probably heard that Java 6 isn’t available from Apple yet. And Apple’s not talking about when it will be available. You’ve probably also heard about Landon Fuller’s SoyLatte Project. After reading Fabrizio Giudici’s blog about his experience getting Netbeans working with SoyLatte I [...]
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Facelets (http://facelets.dev.java.net/ ) was designed by the as a way to make rendering JSF components in web pages more straightfoward than using JSP for a view technology. Discussing the differences and reasons to use Facelets over JSP with JSF is a discussion best saved for the article Improving JSF by Dumping JSP. [...]
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The short answer is because of this entry to the Princeton JUG head’s Java Dev Journal blog:
http://yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com/jbuilder_2007__they_must_be_crazy.htm
Quote:
I personally do not even have time to try it even if they’d given it to me for free.
So, this “review” is nothing more than complaining about the price tag. This COULD be a great IDE but [...]
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The United States has planned a change to its DST observance beginning in 2007. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandates that DST will start on the second Sunday in March and end on the first Sunday in November. In 2007, the start and stop dates will be March 11 and November 4, respectively. These [...]
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I love Google’s Blogger Web Comments Addon for Firefox. But with the release of Firefox 2.0, Google hasn’t made an update for the tool yet. Here’s a workaround.
- Download the XPI file for Google Web Comments at http://dl.google.com/firefox/google-webcomments.xpi
Open the google-webcomments.xpi file with WinZip or WinRAR (it’s just a ZIP file) and edit install.rdf [...]
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[Originally Posted 25-Sep-2005]
First, let me start with saying I’m a total JBuilder bigot. I’ve used it since version 1.0 and helped support the product on Borland’s forums for years. As I said in my earlier blog, with Borland’s new Peloton initiative I decided to start taking a more serious look at Eclipse and the Eclipse-based [...]
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