Xavier Defrang comments

"Deprecated Until Further Notice" by sircam

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:42:41 CEST

Copy that; I'll keep it in my RSS feed just in case.

"The Simple Joy of Programming" by Yuri from Raamstraat 19

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:40:02 CEST

scan... flatten... strip. Pretty obscene, huh?

"Welcome to City 17" by Xavier

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:56:07 CET

I actually don't play (*) but I am big fan of dystopian universes so I know a bit about Half Life 2. (*) I will next week as Super Mario Galaxy finally hits the stores :)

"Welcome to City 17" by sircam

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:41:24 CET

So they really exist?! I've once heard the soulless female speaker voice of HL² at Heathrow airport. Same tone, same way of calling passengers and citizens. I'm sure it was the same lady in the game and ITRL. Or was it an alien? P.S. You play too much obviously ;-)

"Welcome to City 17" by MoneyMoose

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:00:27 CET

Seems these people were at the right place at the wrong time.

"The Game Will Never Be The Same" by h+5

Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:43:25 CET

"I guess the simple fact that someone who has always dodged PDA's and "smartphones" is actually using one should indicate how great this thing really is." to me it just means that they succeded to create a need where there wasn't any, that is the need of mobile internet device. iphone is cool. i don't see it usefull yet.

"Let's Pretend I Actually Cared About This..." by alex

Sat, 3 Nov 2007 14:58:05 CET

Actually I think both sides are a bit unfair towards each other. First of all Apple made a judgement call about not letting Leopard slip any more than it already had by cutting a few things, which happened to be the latest java version (afaik 1.5 still runs and even had some bugfixes and updates). I presume that they'll have an update soon to include 1.6. I also has to be said that some of the things that were included, such as the Python Objective-C bridge, and the Ruby DTrace probes (http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/10/30/leopard-java-and-open-source/) were created by people outside of Apple, as these runtimes are open source. Maybe open sourcing Java will have some positive effect here. As for Java that's not the case, and Sun has nothing to do about that, because Apple wanted to do the port themselves (http://blogs.sun.com/jag/).

"Let's Pretend I Actually Cared About This..." by Xavier

Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:49:15 CET

This is surely not handy for Java developers but again the JDK is a product of Sun, so they should take the flak if like many other programming environments, it can't be built as-is under any UNIX flavor. Java developers surely ain't a significant portion of the OS X users base, so it makes sense for Apple not to delay their release (already postponed) of Leopard just because Sun couldn't ship a proper JRE and JDK. John Gruber has posted some follow up on this story. But, as I said: I couldn't care less. I was just finding that it was a little unfair to bash Apple for this... especially as there are things I find much more annoying about Leopard like the missing rounded corners of the menu bar! Now that is scandalous! ;)

"Let's Pretend I Actually Cared About This..." by sircam

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:34:29 CET

Well, they pay the big bucks to get the shiny brushed metal case; often they've been "loyal" customers for many years, everything was fine then the wind changed and now they're strongly disappointed. No need to be pissed off at Apple indeed, but I must admit a lack of Java support is a bit annoying for a Java developer.

"Enough Chit Chat..." by aikii

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:05:50 CEST

Funny thought about ruby : every time I read blog posts about its syntax, people are happy to leave C-like syntax for a more english-like syntax. And that's about the same thing you read on the venerable Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper's wikipedia article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper ) : "it was her idea that programs could be written in a language that was close to English rather than in machine code or languages close to machine code (such as assembly language), which is how it was normally done at that time" Indeed this philosophy was used to invent ... COBOL ;-) I guess we have to admit that's the very same intend that lead both languages' syntax. But COBOL couldn't be based on any past experience, while ruby appeared 40 years later .. for sure, we have to blame the industry in the first place for its poor choices, not the inventors. I guess the same thing can be said about flash/flex's uses. I wish I could have some fun with it, like the guys at digg : http://labs.digg.com/swarm/