Argh.
April 20, 2005 @ 01:08 AMsonofaBITCH.
It has not been a good month for Apple + Java folks.
First came word that the 10.3.9 update causes Java to break on about 20% of the machines it’s installed on. There’s an easy fix, but there was a day or so of panic for a lot of people. Either way, it was a bad mess up that made people wonder how such a problem made it through Apple’s QA.
Second, and this I just found out last night, we’re learning that Mac OS X Tiger will NOT be shipping with Java 5. Considering the Windows/Linux/Solaris implementations are some 3 months old or so, us Apple + Java fans were REALLY counting on Java 5 in OS X Tiger. I guess we’ll just continue to wait.
I did attend the Seattle Java Users Group last night. It was pretty fun. The topic was Ajax, specifically JSON-RPC-Java, which essentially gives you browser-side JavaScript stubs for server-side Java objects that can be called with remote calls. Pretty impressive in theory actually. In implementation however, I’m not so sure it’s that impressive.
I do always go away from those things wishing I’d been more social. I talked to a couple people, but I mostly slipped in and slipped out. I’m a quiet person in new situations. It was fun though to be in a room full of people who do exactly what I do, talking about some situations we all face, etc. I strongly recommend anyone in programming thing about attending users groups. They are in almost every city for almost every programming language. I’ll be attending Portland’s JUG next week. Vancouver, B.C.’s in happening tomorrow, but I can’t afford to take that much time off work.