A friend I haven't met yet: David Tong. Any friend of Calvin's is a friend of mine.
And my second-favorite blogger and other new friend -- Chris Calkins
mary
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Friday Sep 17, 2004
A friend I haven't met yet: David Tong. Any friend of Calvin's is a friend of mine.
And my second-favorite blogger and other new friend -- Chris Calkins
mary
i'm going to knock your socks off this week people.
(next week, i'm going to knock your socks and your shoes off.. but let's live for the moment)
this week's prize package includes
- A leather Kenneth Cole PDA holder
- A leather business card holder
- A watch (slight issue with keeping time but doesn't actually keep it from being a must-have fashion accessory for the fall)
- A t-shirt
- 3 Java collector's pins (hottest thing going in Olympic village)
- A bunch of Duke on a surf board (temporary) tatoos
- A pen with one of those clips things that rock climbers use (in case you wanted to jot something down on your way up that big rock in Yosemite which i can't excatly remember the name of right at this minute.)
- A card that you can use to get a free ringtone on java.com
- Java Powered stickers on for your Java Powered phone (get on the horn and tell those carriers that you want to see the Java logo on your Java Powered phone. That the coolest thing about your phone is the fact that it's running Java. And since it's already running Java, you want your logo, damn it!).
- And last but certainly not least, a must-have foam "armchair"
that you can use to cradel that Java Powered phone on your desk. (or
give to your kids; great Barbie chairs.)
but wait, there's more... we got a bonified puzzler this week people. Straight from the personal email account(s) of Dr. Josh Bloch and Dr. Neal Gafter addressed to me.
that's right, me.
Be still my beating heart.
And we're going to get straight to it...
right after I remind you:
- To buy Dr. Josh's Book, Effective Java -- it's as near and dear to the hearts of Java developers as Dianetics is to people who follow Scientology
- To download
Tiger. Beat the rush.
- *Friday
Free Stuff is not a contest. It's me giving away stuff
that I personally own to somebody I choose. I pay for shipping that
stamps that I buy at the post office. Sun employees can play but they can't win* the prize*
The idea behind private members
(methods, fields, types) is that they're simply implementation details:
the implementor of a class can feel free to add new ones and change or
remove old ones without fear of harming clients of the class. In
geek-speak, private members are fully encapsulated by the class
that contains them.
Unfortunately, there are a few chinks in the armor. For example, serialization can break this encapsulation. As explained in Effective Java Items 54 and 55, making a class serializable and accepting the default serialized form causes the class’s private private instance fields to become part of its exported API. Changes in the private represntation can then lead to runtime exceptions or erratic behavior.
But what about compile-time errors? Can
you cause a client of a final class to fail to compile simply by adding
a private member to the class? (By "client" we mean a class in a
separate package that invokes public constructors or methods of the
class, or accesses its public fields.)
you know what to do.
happy Friday!!
mary
I'd like to introduce you to Lazarus.
The kids call him Goldie.
But his real name is Lazarus. He refuses to stay dead.
I bought Lazarus for $1. But it in the 9 months we've had him, he's actually cost me $237.42, not that we're tracking it closely.
And you know what? I'm pretty unsatisfied with the whole situation to be honest with you. I've spent a whole lot of money. And at the end of the day, I'm not really happy about how things are going.
(If you're an IBM customer, you know what I'm taking about here.)
Which leads me to Sun Java Enterpsie System.
Radical simplification.
No more staffing teams of lawyers to understand how and where you can use the technology you've paid for.
A licensing agreement you can read over a cup of coffee
No more using your business as a QA lab for software vendors -- stop serving as the point of integration for multiple products which work (or don't) in multiple environments.
A single, synchronized release schedule that's tested and interoperable up and down the stack. Standards based. Swap out pieces like legos.
No more trying to figure out how much components cost by counting CPUs, directories, mailboxes, etc.
Radically simplified pricing. $100 per employee per year*
(Editor's note: that's less than what you spend on coffee -- if you're still buying them coffee)
Now all we need is a pricing model like this in the goldfish world. And I'd be golden.
mary
*No hidden costs. Includes upgrades, professional services, training and support.
p.s. the moral of the story: don't challenge me. there is absolutely nothing that's so orthogonal that i can't weave it into this blog. ;-)