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Entries Tagged as 'Java'

Speedy Django Development

July 7th, 2006 · 3 Comments

As I’ve mentioned before, I am building my own web store using Django. The coding is going extremely quickly, thanks to the excellence of the framework.
I find myself marvelling at how quickly and simply various elements come together, especially when I contrast this to my previous experience doing the same thing with Java for […]

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Tags: Languages · Django · Python · Java

XML Is Java’s Scripting Language

March 13th, 2006 · Comments Off

Great article at Lesscode.org, responding to Gosling’s dismissal of scripting languages.
Usually, I ignore attacks like Gosling’s as not worth my limited time and attention. I love Python, and it really doesn’t bother me when the ignorant attack my language-of-choice. This article is better than the original by orders of magnitude, due to its […]

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Tags: Rants · Python · Java

Bitter Java

February 13th, 2006 · 2 Comments

I’ve been saying for years “I spent the entire day today chasing down Java configuration errors when upgrading Resin 2 to Resin 3.

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Tags: Rants · Java