In my
previous Java-bashing post, people started to pick the example apart rather than comment on the fact that Java still is missing some very obvious functionality, like closures. So I won’t come up with another example .
Anyway, I asked myself about the “solution” proposed to my little problem to use exceptions. Smalltalk […]

The guys behind The Pirate Bay got around to making a movie of their own, called Steal this Film! (download it with your favorite BitTorrent client from here, if you don’t have a BT client installed check out Azureus). If you don’t know TPB, it is one of the world’s major BitTorrent indexing and tracking […]

SellaBand is a new (Dutch) site to help bands make money. The idea is simple: a band promotes itself on the site, and tries to get 5000 people to bet $10 on the band’s success (or one to bet $50,000, whatever). With that money, SellaBand will provide a producer and studio time so the band […]

At my new company, Java has been designated as “the” language. I won’t comment on this decision, and actually they’re reasonably relaxed about it (if you can show that one of the other existing main languages in the company - PHP, Perl, C - will work better, you’re probably free to move ahead), but still, […]