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The price of freedom: My wife's email includes offers to lengthen appendages she doesn't have by 27%. The spam filter finds most of them, but she has to take the time to delete them and once in a while comes across a graphic picture of a squirrel or a topless woman. Spam, like telemarketers, is unwanted and inappropriate contact that most agree should be stopped. At Java Today we are puzzling over what to do about comments that aren't offensive so much as they are inappropriate. » Read more
(July 4, 2003 4:33AM PT)
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Living with Leaks:
Selecting the correct level of abstraction that hides the complexity of the implementation (but provides adequate control of the relevant details) can be a daunting task. Everyone has different ideas regarding "adequate control" and "relevant details." This article looks at five levels of abstraction. » Read more
(Jul 03, 2003)
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A Look Back at JavaOne:
This year's JavaOne conference attendence was about the same size as
last year, with about 12,000 attendees, but the mood was upbeat.
People are moving forward to make things happen. Barring some new huge
shock to the system, author John Mitchell is taking this as a leading indicator that we've
reached the bottom are heading back up. » Read more
(Jun 27, 2003)
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Exploring the Java Research License:
The Java Research License (JRL) was introduced at JavaOne as a new open source license for universities and research. A panel of java.net bloggers talk about the new license and invite you into the discussion. » Read more
(Jun 25, 2003)
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Guidelines for Network Aware Software:
In an oreillynet blog, Tim O'Reilly proposes seven guidelines for web aware applications. For example, his fifth guideline is "We ought to be able to have the expectation that all applications, whether local or remote (web) will be set up for two-way interactions. That is, they can be either a source or sink of online data. So, for example, the natural complement to amazon's web services data feeds is data input (for example, the ability to comment on a book on your local blog, and syndicate the review via RSS to amazon's detail page for the book.)"
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Disabling Comments in Blogs:
Safari, Apple's web browser, moved from beta in January to final last week. During that time Dave Hyatt, one of the developers, maintained a weblog where he talked about the issues being addressed and solicited input from anyone. Now he has diabled comments because people have been using his blog as a bug database.
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