Just noticed a ScreenSavers bit on fraudulent Paypal spam to make people send their credit card, ATM pin etc to a spammer.
It would be very nice if when I put the mouse on top of a Form, if it shows the site that the Form is going to. I’d expect to see something like:
Submit: http://www.example.com/submit_spam?fooaweriwed=wew1121
Does anyone know of a browser that does this?
Usually I avoid talking about work too much because of the legalities etc, but this shouldn’t hurt.
After a few weeks of hassling management for money and using the 30 day demo a lot, we appear to have got permission to get JIRA 
I think it was the highly configurable front page which highlighted not only how much is in JIRA, but the fact that users can do a lot of it themselves.
The only minuses which have created any negative views are:
1) Things being turned off by default. So people not being able to create attachments until idiot admin [me] realised I could turn on the feature. Ditto for allowing unassigned users [I had actually created a user named ‘Unassigned’] and moving issues between projects.
2) Purchase problems. No online purchase yet, so the usual lethargy to actually having to contact someone.
My current desires for JIRA are:
1) Expand a filter on the front page, basically so we can have the unassigned issues on the front page in everyone’s face and the manager’s can have issues that have been given to the IT Manager user [basically a user to hold issues which need to go through management priority etc] in their face.
2) History needs to show the assigning of users. If I assign something to Fred, and add a comment, all the history for an issue shows is a series of comments, which without the context of an assignation looks very weird.
Need to post these to JIRA’s JIRA.
Worrying. Looking over my webalizer site for this blog I noticed that one of the searches [4 searches] was for ‘bayard shotgun’. Bayard is a nickname I used to play on muds back in 94 and kept to do various bits of LPC coding, and Java coding, also using as it as an email a lot, [Don’t laugh, the head of Apache was once known as Deathblade].
Even assuming they’re not trying to kill me, I’ve no clue why someone would be looking for a bayard shotgun Maybe it’s a brand in france or something.
You see so many lists of bad things about Java from people who are blatantly non-Java. It really comes down to what Java lacks that C# has, or C++ has, or Perl has etc.
After BBC Basic and LPC, I learnt Pascal/C/Java and Perl all at the same time. I’ve continued to use Java since then and have used and studied perl to a slightly lesser amount. C and Pascal I’ve generally not bothered with. So I felt I wasn’t a bad choice to provide a list on what I hate about Java….
http://www.generationjava.com/articles/java/whatihatejava.shtml
Something a bit closer to home for me:
http://www.defenselink.mil/dodgc/doha/industrial/02-08154.h1.html
Someone who was applying for US Security Clearance and had it refused because they refused to give up their dual nationality status and would not join the US army in a time of war with the UK.
Wow. Guess I need to stop applying for jobs at Fort Knox.
This is lovely, if a US citizen decides to renounce their citizenship [must be on foreign soil], they are still eligible for the draft.
I’d like to join with Java guff and stuff in asking if _anyone_ out there is in favour of the damned new import syntax for JDK 1.5?!?
So what communities are there out there for open sourced Java?
There’s the loose sourceforge, which I don’t think even really counts but I wanted to get on paper right away.
Then there’s Jakarta, the Apache based heavyweight. Is it fat or muscle though?
There’s ObjectWeb, centered around France Telecom and a lot of French individuals. Some very interesting middleware projects that people probably don’t consider often enough.
There’s Tigris, who provide a lot of Java projects, but are chiefly a vertical community dealing with development tools.
There’s GNU of course, who have a Java section, but seem to not be at the centre of open-sourced Java.
There’s IBM alphaWorks and Sun, who both have Java communities, though IBMs is closed to IBM employees only and Sun’s is possibly also company focused.
What else is there? New groups like CodeHaus. Who else of size?
Mainly I’m looking for a list of providers that one would check when looking for server-side Java code, of any type. Not really the J2ME market or Applets, but pretty much anything else.
To count, a community needs to have more than one project and have an appearance of size, so osjava may not count as there’s only four of us.
Does anyone know if this will work in JDK 1.5?
for(Object o : iterator)
or is it only for Collections?
A new term? Google doesn’t return anything. I was talking with Steve and it popped out.
When something is lacking enough syntax-sugar, it is syntax-sour
