Comments for Information Bits http://rmeindl.wordpress.com Things that matter to me Sat, 30 May 2009 23:58:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Thoughts about Google Wave by Uche http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/thoughts-about-google-wave/#comment-85 Uche Sat, 30 May 2009 23:58:39 +0000 http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/?p=164#comment-85 Thanks for this blog post. I was meant to be there for the conference, but missed it due to circumstances. I totally think that Wave will kill off Twitter and facebook. Thanks for this blog post. I was meant to be there for the conference, but missed it due to circumstances.

I totally think that Wave will kill off Twitter and facebook.

]]> Comment on An Apple hit me by Christopher http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/an-apple-hit-me/#comment-83 Christopher Mon, 11 May 2009 11:14:08 +0000 http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/?p=159#comment-83 If you think that the german keyboard layout is silly, take a look at the Swiss-German one. :-) If you think that the german keyboard layout is silly, take a look at the Swiss-German one. :-)

]]> Comment on Why Microsoft may be in the lead again by David Hofmann http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/why-microsoft-may-be-in-the-lead-again/#comment-78 David Hofmann Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:44:13 +0000 http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/?p=112#comment-78 Sorry my english, discard the message before -- What you will always see is that Microsoft always make very good IDE support as its language features/frameworks grows, and that you don’t find it in the other language Sorry my english, discard the message before
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What you will always see is that Microsoft always make very good IDE support as its language features/frameworks grows, and that you don’t find it in the other language

]]> Comment on Why Microsoft may be in the lead again by David Hofmann http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/why-microsoft-may-be-in-the-lead-again/#comment-77 David Hofmann Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:36:42 +0000 http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/?p=112#comment-77 What you will always see is thta microsoft always make very good IDE support does not grow with the language features/frameworks which you don't find it in the other languages What you will always see is thta microsoft always make very good IDE support does not grow with the language features/frameworks which you don’t find it in the other languages

]]> Comment on Why Microsoft may be in the lead again by rmeindl http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/why-microsoft-may-be-in-the-lead-again/#comment-76 rmeindl Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:01:48 +0000 http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/?p=112#comment-76 - I knew of Jetbrains MPS, which is free available as EAP, but Microsoft Oslo starts with a simple text based concept, not only for the language but also for the repository. Both are supperior to OMG concepts. - Clouds are extensions, not replacements for corporate networks. But also SaaS can work, as salesforce.com has shown. An a lot of corporate networks are running Windows based office networks. - Compare Terracotta with GridGain or CCR/DSS is not fair because they realized, I agree successful, a transparent distribution infrastructure for shared data structures but Terracotta exactly no computational grid, but you can build solutions on top. - Doug Leas Concurrency library already contains the Fork/Join framework which is the ancestor of the new one in Java 7. - Most of the more interesting libraries for Java bound today to Java5/6 language features or the newer class formats. Some features can realized on Java 1.4 with backports, but it is cumbersome. C#, especially 3.0, has a lot of features which makes code more readable: properties, delegates, events, the lambda syntax for them and especially LINQ. This maybe a matter of taste, but Java needs Groovy to achieve the same ... and generics without type information makes the life sometimes a bit complicated. - I knew of Jetbrains MPS, which is free available as EAP, but Microsoft Oslo starts with a simple text based concept, not only for the language but also for the repository. Both are supperior to OMG concepts.
- Clouds are extensions, not replacements for corporate networks. But also SaaS can work, as salesforce.com has shown. An a lot of corporate networks are running Windows based office networks.
- Compare Terracotta with GridGain or CCR/DSS is not fair because they realized, I agree successful, a transparent distribution infrastructure for shared data structures but Terracotta exactly no computational grid, but you can build solutions on top.
- Doug Leas Concurrency library already contains the Fork/Join framework which is the ancestor of the new one in Java 7.
- Most of the more interesting libraries for Java bound today to Java5/6 language features or the newer class formats. Some features can realized on Java 1.4 with backports, but it is cumbersome. C#, especially 3.0, has a lot of features which makes code more readable: properties, delegates, events, the lambda syntax for them and especially LINQ. This maybe a matter of taste, but Java needs Groovy to achieve the same … and generics without type information makes the life sometimes a bit complicated.

]]> Comment on Why Microsoft may be in the lead again by 1 http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/why-microsoft-may-be-in-the-lead-again/#comment-75 1 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:21:56 +0000 http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/?p=112#comment-75 Cloud may mean something to startups, but not corps, where java is dominating. There is no way they move data to someone else. It may be the shared hosting/vps 2.0 though. Read what Larry Elisson says about it. "Backwards compatibility is already broken" how is it broken? Scala is definitely better than Java, but there is one moment - there are too many good things in Scala. Java has the balance - it's simple enough, C# - not really. There will be new fork-join framework in jdk7, and yes - there are terracota, hadoop and lots of other alternatives which actually work well. Oslo? Jetbrains MPS! Cloud may mean something to startups, but not corps, where java is dominating. There is no way they move data to someone else. It may be the shared hosting/vps 2.0 though. Read what Larry Elisson says about it.

“Backwards compatibility is already broken” how is it broken? Scala is definitely better than Java, but there is one moment – there are too many good things in Scala. Java has the balance – it’s simple enough, C# – not really.

There will be new fork-join framework in jdk7, and yes – there are terracota, hadoop and lots of other alternatives which actually work well.

Oslo? Jetbrains MPS!

]]> Comment on Why Microsoft may be in the lead again by Mike Johnson http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/why-microsoft-may-be-in-the-lead-again/#comment-74 Mike Johnson Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:31:44 +0000 http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/?p=112#comment-74 Sorry, but calling terracotta a framework is completely backwards. It tries very hard to be a transparent cluster solution. The only thing you might choose to include in your code is annotations to customize how the cluster works with your data, but that can easily be done in a single config file. I'm not affiliated with them, just a happy user. :-) Sorry, but calling terracotta a framework is completely backwards. It tries very hard to be a transparent cluster solution.

The only thing you might choose to include in your code is annotations to customize how the cluster works with your data, but that can easily be done in a single config file.

I’m not affiliated with them, just a happy user. :-)

]]> Comment on Why Microsoft may be in the lead again by florin http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/why-microsoft-may-be-in-the-lead-again/#comment-73 florin Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:19:35 +0000 http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/?p=112#comment-73 Well, I'm confused. Except 'Oslo' you have an (prior) existing solution in the Java world that you point out. So what gives the title? Well, I’m confused. Except ‘Oslo’ you have an (prior) existing solution in the Java world that you point out.

So what gives the title?

]]> Comment on Reified generics possible in Java? by Franz Wilhelmstötter http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/reified-generics-possible-in-java/#comment-6 Franz Wilhelmstötter Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:20:02 +0000 http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/reified-generics-possible-in-java/#comment-6 I've looked at the nice feature wish list for Java 7. But I missed one feature more than reified generics. A real step forward to more reliability an code quality would be a language support for DBC. D shows how it could be. Large software projects would also benefit from "superpackage"s. In comparison, reified generics look like syntactical sugar ;-) I’ve looked at the nice feature wish list for Java 7. But I missed one feature more than reified generics. A real step forward to more reliability an code quality would be a language support for DBC. D shows how it could be. Large software projects would also benefit from “superpackage”s. In comparison, reified generics look like syntactical sugar ;-)

]]> Comment on The Great Game by rmeindl http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/the-great-game/#comment-5 rmeindl Wed, 23 May 2007 15:59:14 +0000 http://rmeindl.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/the-great-game/#comment-5 Thanks, I corrected the link. Thanks, I corrected the link.

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