Localisation annoyance

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Jan 182005
 

When I started blogging, I asked you readers if I should continue in Dutch, or in English. A lot of my visitors are international, so I switched to English. I think that all blogs having to do with anything other than regional news should be in English. It annoyes me to see people babbling about something like VS.NET in their own (non-English) language. Hey, it’s about a global product, so talk to me in English.

Another thing is so-called intelligent software, that detects where I’m from while browsing the net. The result is that I’m viewing someones blog (or other pages) and some keywords like “comments”, “login”, “today”, “recently” are translated into Dutch (because I am, and I live in the Netherlands). That’s weird. And it does NOT contribute to my browsing experience. It looks clumsy. It’s like saying “you can understand my English posts, but let me translate the trivial text for you”. Duh! If I was too stupid to understand the trivial parts, the rest would be jibberish to me as well.

 Posted by at 12:37

jGRASP

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Jan 182005
 

If you need a free IDE to program Java, have a look at jGRASP. It supports UML-modelling, and Java 1.5 syntax (and other languages), source folding (as seen in the new Borland products and Visual Studio), auto documentation (via javadoc), and some other neat features. This is definitely something to check out if you don’t need a visual designer.

Or you could go with Netbeans, but unfortunately this free IDE has a visual designer 😉

 Posted by at 10:15

Java

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Jan 182005
 

Some time ago, I blogged about Cloudscape. I also said I would try to do something with it via JBuilder2005. Well, I haven’t done anything with Cloudscape yet, but I installed JBuilder2005 and…on the server I installed the Sun Application Server Platform 8.1-2005Q1. Cool stuff. I’ll try to have Sun ASP running together with IIS, both serving their own pages. I don’t know if it can be done, but I’ll give it a try.

Reading about the whole framework seems to be reading about .NET, with this change that everything is there. No ifs, buts, missing parts or whatever. Platform independent, scalable and mature.

Perhaps I will even start to like Java. Jikes. Let’s rinse the mouth, now shall we?!

 Posted by at 00:55

Avalon November 2004 CTP gone public

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Jan 152005
 

Sorry I missed this yesterday, but Microsoft released November 2004 CTP of Avalon, Longhorn’s “presentation” system, to the public. More info on this page. Before you download the 260MByte file, you can read more about Avalon on this page, where you can read you will need to have the .NET Framework 2.0 beta installed to be able to run Avalon.

 Posted by at 16:31

The Porter

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Jan 132005
 

Wow! Check out this movie (click on the movie-link). Remember, don’t stop dreaming!

 Posted by at 20:36

Nvu

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Jan 132005
 

Thanks Steve, for pointing to Nvu. Still in prerelease/beta stadium, but already a very mature product. And it’s free (like in free beer).

 Posted by at 14:36

Software delivery dates….”when it’s done”

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Jan 122005
 

John Carmack was legendary in saying that their next release will come out “when it’s done”. PostgreSQL made a prediction that did not come true. Duh. Late this week will change to early next week, I predicted, and as you can read here, that prediction seems quite accurate 😉

Anyways, 8.0-RC5 is running happily on my desktop now, no problems whatsoever. I haven’t tried the .Net dataprovider (npgsql) yet, but I guess that will not give any problem either.

 Posted by at 15:19

PostgreSQL 8 RC5

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Jan 112005
 

Although it’s not announced on the main site yet, most mirrors already have it: RC5 of PostgreSQL 8. With the release being planned late this week, and RC4 claimed to be the last RC before release, RC5 is a surprise. But the changelog from RC4 to RC5 lists quite a few changes/fixes, so my prediciton will be that late this week will change into early next week.

Choose one of the mirrors to download the software. It’s in the beta directory.

The Windows-installer version can also be found here.

 Posted by at 21:37

Chrome commandline preview

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Jan 112005
 

If you like Object Pascal (Delphi), but for some reason you like the VS.NET IDE more than Borland’s IDE, then you might have a look at Chrome. It is a innovated version of Object Pascal, suited for .NET. Currently, the commandlinecompiler is released as a preview (beta) version, for the .NET framework and for Mono.

I liked Borland’s IDE more, because it has early databinding, so you can see data from a database at design time. It makes the designing easier, since you can see earlier if data needs more of less space in a datacomponent. With the new Delphi, it turns out that this is only the case with BPD.NET and not if you only use non-Borland components. Taken that into account, I think VS.NET IDE is better. It’s faster to load, and more stable on my system. Furthermore, as I blogged earlier, VS.NET is much cheaper.

 Posted by at 12:10

b2evolution 0.9.0.10

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Jan 082005
 

You might have noticed the different look of this blog: I’ve upgraded b2evolution from 0.8.9 to 0.9.0.10. If there are any problems, or things that do not work, then let me know.

 Posted by at 12:14
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