La Tortue Cynique / The Cynical Turtle

  SONY et le web, je ne m'en lasserai jamais ! Une profusion de pop-ups, des animations en Flash qui bloquent la navigation à tout moment, du javascript qui ne marche que sous Internet Explorer ! Et surtout, surtout, une forêt de sites entremêlés, mélangeant les publics, les contenus... enfin les  […]

Winamp 3 is out for about 8 months, no bugfix release since then, even if the Nullsoft team said that it was pushed too soon by AOL. I'm still sticking to Winamp 2, much lighter, and bug free on my computer. What's going on by Nullsoft? Justin Frankel's .plan seems to indicate that work is done  […]

Via Dion. Crossvale has produced a report comparing the productivity between WebLogic Workshop (WLW) and IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD). They explain a lot what they do, and why they do it this way, while developping and enterprise grade application. To my taste, they fail to  […]

<pedantic:rant> This morning in the javablogs daily mail, I see Solving Swing's MVC Deficiencies by Ryan. I start to read and... geez, solving Swing's MVC deficiencies requires a unique controller? I mean, either there is a misunderstanding about MVC, or with its Swing implementation, but the  […]

Some time ago I was asking if anyone knew about some tools to do the plumbing with JNI. JNI code is remarkably error prone and some help is always desirable. Eventually someone mailed me to point Jace. From the documentation, It looks very interesting, a bit more heavy than what I planned to do (and  […]

Une attraction certaine pour le facteur de forme mini-itx, une attraction passée mais qui fut certaine aussi pour les briques danoises (royaume de la briquette faut-il rappeler), tout ça pour ça. Le design est proprement ignoble, on s'aperçoit bien vite que les ressources d'antan ne suffisent pas à  […]

Fourteen Years of Pain

and especially those who set their font size to smallest :-) You've now the possibility to select another style sheet with a bigger font size. The choice is saved in a cookie, so you won't need to make this choice every time you come back (even if the biggest probability is that you'll never come  […]

Today, a ColdFusion stack trace, on ".NET Developer's Journal". Compared to JSP, there's not much of an improvement, since ColdFusion is unable to track the line where the error happened. But at least it details some useful information with a specialized error-handler (SQL error in that  […]

Et avec quel brio ! Visiblement le site s'est emmêlé les pinceaux avec un cookie quelconque... résultat, sur http://shop.sonystyle-europe.com/SonyStyle/b2c/forwardToAction.do :      A runtime error occurred    java.lang.RuntimeException: The requested forward shopexist was not defined in the action  […]