i wonder how many j* languages are out there… a.sundararajan, who wrote the syntax comparision between java, groovy and jruby, i’ve suggested you before (and before), came up with a jython companion today. additionally he also compares javascript to java (who thinks that this is the same will get banned from my blog instantly ;)) in this chart.
i do not only like music covers, but also acapella music covers. here’s cosmos’ cover of michael jacksons “billy jean.”
did i already mention that i need a decent design for this blog? yes, sire! feel free to contribute, your lordliness.
hmm, i seem to like music covers. this one by the almighty weird al yankovic: polkarama!
as far as i know, weird al’s newest album is out. you might consider buying it.
a. sundararajan continued his comparision chart mentioned earlier, although he insists that it’s not complete and he is still learning the languages depicted. anyway, i think it gives you a nice overview of differences and what these languages have in common. for more code internals of java, groovy and (j)ruby click here.
by the way, sun hired the two main developers of jruby, so we might expect even more output of this project in the future due to full-time development.
mr. sundararajan of sun wrote a nice syntax comparision of java, groovy and jruby. worth watching while switching from one language to another.
today i published the newly implemented sha1 encoder on the mainframe8 site. its algorithm is explained in the fips publication 180-2. there is also a rfc for it.
free hashsums for everyone!
according to katakai san the new precompiled binaries of mozilla firefox and thunderbird are out.
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.7/contrib/
Firefox Release Notes:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.7.html
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.5.0.7/contrib/
Thunderbird Release Notes:
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/releases/1.5.0.7.html
have fun!
alfred peng has written a short list of substitutions for common windows applications on the solaris platform. here we go (list abbreviated):
quite nice collection, isn’t it? unfortunately i’m curios when adobe will support it’s acrobat reader under solaris again (version 5 for solaris sparc, version 4 for solaris x86!). come on adobe, let’s give it a shot and compile!
now david dice of sun came up with this script to simplify hs_err files, generated by java in case of crashes etc. it is written in perl and sounds quite promising:
The hs_err6.pl perl script parses an existing hs_err file and annotates it with additional information. In particular the script will decode the the rather cryptic “Error ID” string as well as making an attempt to decorate the module-relative offsets (e.g., [jvm.dll+0×1235]) found in native stack listings with more useful symbolic names.
i haven’t tried it yet, as i have no java application that crashes frequently. 
do you?
