Ninjar
Spotlight seems to be one of the most widely ignored
improvements in OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
However, I thought this would be a good use for it (at least if you’re a Java developer of any kind).
Essentially, it’s an importer that reads the content of .jar (Java Archive) files and publishes this as metadata to spotlight. Enabling you to search for class and package names and have spotlight do the legwork for you. No more renaming jars as zip files and unzipping them to rummage through them in the finder.
It should also help in resolving class-path and naming conflicts. Anyway, it’s free for anyone to use although donations towards it’s upkeep are being gratefully accepted if you find it useful.
However, I thought this would be a good use for it (at least if you’re a Java developer of any kind).
Essentially, it’s an importer that reads the content of .jar (Java Archive) files and publishes this as metadata to spotlight. Enabling you to search for class and package names and have spotlight do the legwork for you. No more renaming jars as zip files and unzipping them to rummage through them in the finder.
It should also help in resolving class-path and naming conflicts. Anyway, it’s free for anyone to use although donations towards it’s upkeep are being gratefully accepted if you find it useful.
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Consensus killed the cat
This insightful blog post pretty much sums up my
feelings on consensus based decision making.
http://www.carte-blanche.org/issues/04/grassmann.html
I shudder to think of the amount of productive time (both micro i.e. personal and macro i.e. company) wasted trying to get a bunch of people to come to a consensus. The other problem with a consensus opinion is it never reflects anyone’s personal opinion, so no one can ever really get behind it and champion it and consequentially no one really cares.
As they sagely used to say, “in all the towns and all the cities, there are no statues to committees. “
http://www.carte-blanche.org/issues/04/grassmann.html
I shudder to think of the amount of productive time (both micro i.e. personal and macro i.e. company) wasted trying to get a bunch of people to come to a consensus. The other problem with a consensus opinion is it never reflects anyone’s personal opinion, so no one can ever really get behind it and champion it and consequentially no one really cares.
As they sagely used to say, “in all the towns and all the cities, there are no statues to committees. “
Java black belt
JavaBlackBelt.com is a neat idea,
it’s a community for Java and Open Source skills
assessment. However, unlike others such as
BrainBench it doesn’t cost money
to sit the tests. It costs time.
Each exam requires a certain number of contribution points which you earn by authoring new questions or commenting and editing existing ones. On passing an exam you get ‘Knowledge Points’ which you can add together to get different belt grades (yellow, orange, green, blue, brown and black).
I find it a useful resource for keeping my ninja coding skills sharpened.
http://javablackbelt.com/UserView.wwa?userId=259522
Each exam requires a certain number of contribution points which you earn by authoring new questions or commenting and editing existing ones. On passing an exam you get ‘Knowledge Points’ which you can add together to get different belt grades (yellow, orange, green, blue, brown and black).
I find it a useful resource for keeping my ninja coding skills sharpened.
http://javablackbelt.com/UserView.wwa?userId=259522