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This Java-related blog has been dead for a couple of years, but still definitely worth a read. Check it out!
Java is not my favorite language. Despite a fairly robust class library, and some nice constructs, it has some serious problems. This first post will be about specific language “features” (or lack thereof). The next in the series will be a bit more general. Update: my buddy JK, who commissioned this little screed, pointed me toward this guy, [...]
So here’s the rundown of what’s been, well, going down: Rewrote Bitstream and Huffman encoder/decoder in Java, now fully integrated with my image editor (download them from the code page) Slept, finally had an intense session with JK with lots of Dew, code, and good discussion cleaned the apartment some Tonight I have a study session for CS411, assuming that I manage to [...]
I’ve re-written most of my C++-based Bitstream library in Java, ostensibly to allow better integration with my image editor, but in reality because I still can’t find my bug.
Somwhere in the bowels of the InterWeb, two coders converse: 2:07:12 AM qphoebusq: so 2:07:16 AM qphoebusq: i’m trying to use JNI 2:07:30 AM qphoebusq: which at first I thought was a way to call c++ functions directly from a library 2:07:43 AM joshkimdotorg: JNI? 2:07:45 AM qphoebusq: so you have a compiled native code library, a .dll on windows [...]
The last year or two has seen a rapid acceleration in the debut of new (or at least better-developed) toolkits for working with many languages. Most of these focus on web development, in particular “Web 2.0“. These languages (Ruby, PHP, Javascript, CSS, etc), and web development in general, are not my forte. I am a low-level [...]