lostwebsite.net blog

Moved

fdgonthier — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:38:34 +0000

This blog has moved to its permanent address.

www.lostwebsite.net

No post this week

fdgonthier — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:22:49 +0000

There won’t be a blog post this week since my daughter has decided that sleeping is optional for her. I have not been able to sit and write text during the evenings. I have coded a bit though and hopefully you will see the outcome of that next week.

My experience with Adobe Air

fdgonthier — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:00:19 +0000

Adobe Air is a new software platform from Adobe which mixes JavaScript and Flash technologies to enable developers to make rich Internet applications that can run on desktop computers. It is remarkable in the world of proprietary applications in the sense that it has included Linux support early on.

See the rest at www.lostwebsite.net…

My review of Twitter clients

fdgonthier — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:00:02 +0000

I have used multiple Twitter client since I’ve first started using the service. The reason for that is that most of them are in fact pretty bad and it took me a while to find the set of Twitter client I can use at home, at work and on my mobile device, on Windows but mostly on Linux.

See the rest at www.lostwebsite.net…

Twitter privacy levels

fdgonthier — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:31 +0000

I have been a Twitter user for nearly one year now. It has been an generally pleasant experience. Microblogging is now part of my array my information tools, which also include: RSS (through Google Reader), Email, IRC. A more complete post about own I see Twitter as useful is something I need to do eventually.

See the rest at www.lostwebsite.net…

Google Wave invites

fdgonthier — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:04:18 +0000

Edit: … and we are done. There is no more invites left. Thank you.

Edit: There is only 1 invite remaining. I’ve given away 5 remaining invites to my Twitter friend @balty for a contest on his blog Les 2 Geeks (french). You can participate in his contest until November 14th. There is still 1 invite up for grab right now on this blog so grab it before I give them to somebody else.

I have received 8 Google Wave invites to give away. I know this is still in demand, but it seems everyone that was interested in Google Wave in my immediate cyber-vicinity already surfing the Wave.

So, I’m opening up my invites to the whole Internet and will give away a invite to the first 8 interested people that comments on this entry. Don’t forget to write a reachable email address.

I expect nothing in return but if want to spend a few minutes considering the rests of the posts on my blog, I’ll be grateful.

On String.intern()

fdgonthier — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:32 +0000

Where the author realizes the significance of the `String.intern()` method

I might have hinted about in in my previous post on the subject of strings in Java, yet I did not realize the significance of String.intern() method. The following code sample demonstrates the behavior of the String.intern() method, similar to what I demonstrated in the post.

See the rest at www.lostwebsite.net…

Don’t dust off your tinfoil hat for Skype just yet…

fdgonthier — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:48 +0000

So Skype is evil because it’s proprietary?

It’s not hard to find rumors about spyware being deployed with the Skype VOIP software. What is hard to find amongst those rumors are concrete facts. Most of the rumors seems to be unsubstantiated, and some other are based on interpretation on the EULA of Skype. I won’t bother with the later case since legalese is not a language I speak.

See the rest at www.lostwebsite.net…

Bits on info on Java strings

fdgonthier — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:53 +0000

Update: I don’t keep IRC logs and thus cited the wrong guy. Sorry Vince.

On this blog entry I will take on an assertion stated by systemfault. He declared on the #programmeur IRC channel on Freenode that:

 String foo = new  String("lol"); est pareil que String foo = "lol";
 Quand le compilo voit: String foo = "lol";
              quand il compile, il va vraiment faire String foo = new String("lol");

Which in english means that:

String s = "hello";

is syntaxic sugar for:

String s = new String("hello");

See the rest at www.lostwebsite.net…

Naivety with C++

fdgonthier — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:18 +0000

Warning, major n00bness ahead.

I’m not a big user of C++, but recently some work I have had to do with .NET has made me use C++/CLI, the .NET version of C++.

See the rest at www.lostwebsite.net…

lostwebsite.net blog

Moved

No post this week

My experience with Adobe Air

My review of Twitter clients

Twitter privacy levels

Google Wave invites

On String.intern()

Where the author realizes the significance of the String.intern() method

Don’t dust off your tinfoil hat for Skype just yet…

So Skype is evil because it’s proprietary?

Bits on info on Java strings

Naivety with C++

Where the author realizes the significance of the `String.intern()` method