Comments for Long Pointers http://www.matthew-long.com Matt Long's Blog About Programming and Stuff Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:26:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on That Sucking Sound Is Java Killing Your Soul by jag http://www.matthew-long.com/2008/05/15/that-sucking-sound-is-java-killing-your-soul/#comment-64750 jag Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:09:41 +0000 http://www.matthew-long.com/?p=111#comment-64750 I agree completely that Java can be quite tedious, but it does the things I need on the server side without much setup hassle, like creating zip files and accessing (Oracle) databases. Working with Java on UNIX sure beats the heck out of .Not on Windows (for me, anyway). I use Perl when I can (Python isn't permitted here :-( ), but installing the modules can be such a supreme hassle. After 30 years of server-side development, I'm studying hard to try to make the transition over to the Mac with Xcode/Cocoa/ObjC. (Your tutorials are much appreciated! :) I like Java much better than I like straight C, but the combination of Cocoa and ObjC goes a long way towards alleviating the pain of C. I agree completely that Java can be quite tedious, but it does the things I need on the server side without much setup hassle, like creating zip files and accessing (Oracle) databases. Working with Java on UNIX sure beats the heck out of .Not on Windows (for me, anyway).

I use Perl when I can (Python isn’t permitted here :-( ), but installing the modules can be such a supreme hassle.

After 30 years of server-side development, I’m studying hard to try to make the transition over to the Mac with Xcode/Cocoa/ObjC. (Your tutorials are much appreciated! :)

I like Java much better than I like straight C, but the combination of Cocoa and ObjC goes a long way towards alleviating the pain of C.

]]> Comment on That Sucking Sound Is Java Killing Your Soul by baruch http://www.matthew-long.com/2008/05/15/that-sucking-sound-is-java-killing-your-soul/#comment-59089 baruch Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:31:50 +0000 http://www.matthew-long.com/?p=111#comment-59089 Hi: This is more of a question than a comment. You all are light years ahead of me in all this. I just downloaded your Audio Scrub beta but I don't know where to put the components in order to build the application. Would you be willing please to explain to a neophyte? Thanks! baruch@mcn.org Hi:

This is more of a question than a comment. You all are light years ahead of me in all this.

I just downloaded your Audio Scrub beta but I don’t know where to put the components in order to build the application. Would you be willing please to explain to a neophyte?

Thanks!

baruch@mcn.org

]]> Comment on ASP .NET 2.0 TreeView Strategy by ftoomi http://www.matthew-long.com/2006/10/21/asp-net-20-treeview-strategy/#comment-57834 ftoomi Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:44:23 +0000 http://www.matthew-long.com/2006/10/21/asp-net-20-treeview-strategy/#comment-57834 Hello there ! Mr.Matt I would lie to thank you for this good article; I really enjoey the blog; I've tried to apply this solution to my work, but it couldn't work. if u don't mind to attach this solution in a form of aspx page, Please. thanks a lot :) Hello there !
Mr.Matt I would lie to thank you for this good article; I really enjoey the blog;

I’ve tried to apply this solution to my work, but it couldn’t work. if u don’t mind to attach this solution in a form of aspx page, Please.

thanks a lot :)

]]> Comment on That Sucking Sound Is Java Killing Your Soul by PhantomMenace http://www.matthew-long.com/2008/05/15/that-sucking-sound-is-java-killing-your-soul/#comment-57677 PhantomMenace Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:13:14 +0000 http://www.matthew-long.com/?p=111#comment-57677 I agree with you Matt, Java has tangled itself up into a big ball of crap. I think this stems not so much from the language as it does from the crappy, counter-intuitive API and framework patterns that are so pervasive in the language. I couldn't agree with you more about the over-use of the Factory pattern (and the Builder and all the other ridiculously over engineered patterns). The Calendar and related Classes are a good example of bad design. I also find it interesting how many Classes start out with a somewhat intuitive API that gets deprecated to make room for a more counter-intuitive API that makes no practical sense at all. It almost seems deliberate. So I would contend that the crappiness of Java comes not from the language but from the idiots who steeped the Java culture in over-theoretical and counter-intuitive API's. I agree with you Matt, Java has tangled itself up into a big ball of crap. I think this stems not so much from the language as it does from the crappy, counter-intuitive API and framework patterns that are so pervasive in the language. I couldn’t agree with you more about the over-use of the Factory pattern (and the Builder and all the other ridiculously over engineered patterns). The Calendar and related Classes are a good example of bad design.

I also find it interesting how many Classes start out with a somewhat intuitive API that gets deprecated to make room for a more counter-intuitive API that makes no practical sense at all. It almost seems deliberate.

So I would contend that the crappiness of Java comes not from the language but from the idiots who steeped the Java culture in over-theoretical and counter-intuitive API’s.

]]> Comment on XCode 3.0 Tutorial by C compiler - MacTalk Forums http://www.matthew-long.com/2007/11/09/xcode-30-tutorial/#comment-54793 C compiler - MacTalk Forums Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:21:24 +0000 http://www.matthew-long.com/2007/11/09/xcode-30-tutorial/#comment-54793 [...] get you started: Long Pointers XCode 3.0 Tutorial Cocoa Dev Central: C Language Tutorial for Cocoa What exactly did you want to do anyway?! Learn [...] [...] get you started: Long Pointers XCode 3.0 Tutorial Cocoa Dev Central: C Language Tutorial for Cocoa What exactly did you want to do anyway?! Learn [...]

]]> Comment on That Sucking Sound Is Java Killing Your Soul by perlmunger http://www.matthew-long.com/2008/05/15/that-sucking-sound-is-java-killing-your-soul/#comment-44487 perlmunger Fri, 16 May 2008 13:18:33 +0000 http://www.matthew-long.com/?p=111#comment-44487 @GDA Both! @GDA

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]]> Comment on That Sucking Sound Is Java Killing Your Soul by GdA http://www.matthew-long.com/2008/05/15/that-sucking-sound-is-java-killing-your-soul/#comment-44475 GdA Fri, 16 May 2008 13:09:04 +0000 http://www.matthew-long.com/?p=111#comment-44475 On one hand, Java is not the funniest language. But on the other hand, you have the best tools to develop in Java and far ahead from other IDEs. I used to develop on several other languages too, and I regularly test new languages with new environement. But when I lack code completion, formatting, navigation, refactoring (not just renaming) I really miss my Java IDE. Finding all implementations of an interface, all usages of a class, or the call stack of a method key shortcut is as easy as a key shortcut. And all this makes me happy. So, what do you prefer, fun or happiness ? On one hand, Java is not the funniest language. But on the other hand, you have the best tools to develop in Java and far ahead from other IDEs.
I used to develop on several other languages too, and I regularly test new languages with new environement. But when I lack code completion, formatting, navigation, refactoring (not just renaming) I really miss my Java IDE. Finding all implementations of an interface, all usages of a class, or the call stack of a method key shortcut is as easy as a key shortcut. And all this makes me happy.
So, what do you prefer, fun or happiness ?

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]]> Comment on BecomeAnXcoder, And Give, Please!! by perlmunger http://www.matthew-long.com/2008/04/03/becomeanxcoder-and-give-please/#comment-33151 perlmunger Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:39:01 +0000 http://www.matthew-long.com/?p=110#comment-33151 Self publishing is happening more and more I think, however, a lot of what the publishers get paid for is the publicity. If you can create your own buzz and drive traffic to your book site, you could probably do quite well considering you would make dollars rather than cents for every copy. It's definitely a tradeoff. Self publishing is happening more and more I think, however, a lot of what the publishers get paid for is the publicity. If you can create your own buzz and drive traffic to your book site, you could probably do quite well considering you would make dollars rather than cents for every copy. It’s definitely a tradeoff.

]]> Comment on XCode 3.0 Tutorial by Dinu’s House » XCode 3.0 Tutorial http://www.matthew-long.com/2007/11/09/xcode-30-tutorial/#comment-27438 Dinu’s House » XCode 3.0 Tutorial Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:36:25 +0000 http://www.matthew-long.com/2007/11/09/xcode-30-tutorial/#comment-27438 [...] Add an outlet for a text field and a label, and an action to the code so that it looks like this: PLAIN TEXT [...] [...] Add an outlet for a text field and a label, and an action to the code so that it looks like this: PLAIN TEXT [...]

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