Tag Archives: java

Tabs vs. Spaces

Every time I’ve seen one of these “vs” posts its gone into great length about the philosophy behind such and such.  You’ll never convince someone based on ‘religious argument’. So I’m going to take a different approach here and state who does what and hopefully the weight of ‘who does what’ will make the point [...]

ASE Makes Android Development Pleasant

Having got myself a G1 phone a few weeks back I’ve been tinkering a lot. Mainly with the Android Scripting Environment that I plan on writing about soon but I thought I’d give a quick summary of what I’ve found so far on this platform – and why I don’t like it (kind of)! It [...]

Python GUI Programming? Painful

If you’re wanting to develop a Python GUI anytime soon can I strongly suggest you re/learn Java. I recently wanted to produce a simple yet functional desktop app and decided to give Python a go. I’d later py2exe my creation to create an executable Win32 app. My thinking was that Python is much faster to [...]

Sun’s Gosling on Ruby and PHP

I spotted a recent article while on the Riding Ruby blog in which James Gosling of Sun – aka: “Father of Java” made extensive comment regarding Java’s placing with Ruby, PHP and other platforms. “PHP and Ruby are perfectly fine systems, but they are scripting languages and get their power through specialization: they just generate [...]

Java reaching the end of the road?

An article over at the Register offers up a number of interesting points on the future of Java. Yes, I know its been said many times that Java’s days are numbered, but with the increasing availability and popularity of languages like Python & Ruby. What the report also points out is and Java’s increasingly complex [...]