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20030513 Tuesday May 13, 2003

Java Treats Here are a number of Java-related treats I found this morning that will likely serve as good personal bookmarks in the future.

  • Ryan is looking for an XML-based properties class and one of his commenters (Dmitry) points to this article about the J2SE 1.4 Preferences API. Good stuff.
  • From JavaWorld (via Erik): Java Tip 138: Still parsing to generate your JavaBeans' XML representation?
  • Dave Hyatt makes XBL look wicked cool! If we could only get Microsoft to support it, it might actually be useful.
  • After reading this article I wonder if I should replace my Powerbook (w/in the next year) with another Powerbook, or an Intel based laptop. I do most of my development on Windows because I'm more productive and as an American, I get a buzz from being productive. So why buy another Mac? Intel-based PCs are faster - if I really want a Unix core, I can just run Linux. With VMWare for XP, I find it hard to justify buying another Mac. Besides, I already own one and the desire is out of my system. And furthermore, I dig how Dell will come to your house and fix your PC, whereas Apple makes you send it in for two weeks - what's up with that?!

Posted in Java at May 13 2003, 09:34:54 AM MDT 2 Comments

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Wow, after reading that article, I think I'm going to have to seriously reconsider whether buying a powerbook is really such a good idea after all. It sure is pretty though.

Posted by Kwan on May 13, 2003 at 02:49 PM MDT #

After a year of having my 667 MHz (1 GB RAM) Powerbook, I've found that $4500 (how much I paid) is a little much to spend for some a great online photo album (via iPhoto) and an easy video editor (iMovie). I've *tried* to use it for development, but it's just too slow (for me). It <em>definitely</em> was not worth the money, but it is a cool piece of hardware and software. Friends dig it and Java Programmers are impressed, but if you're going to get it for the same reasons I did (it sure looks cool), I'd pass.

Posted by Matt Raible on May 13, 2003 at 03:10 PM MDT #

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