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After seeing this shirt I almost started believing it. Then I noticed the following tag line:
Please do not attempt to wear the screen–this t-shirt is just an image!
Does this “magazine for PHP professionals” think so poorly of their readers that they have to tell them they’re looking at a computer screen? Maybe PHP [...]

I spend a fair bit of time helping out beginning Java programmers. My favorite is when they ask why their swing code doesn’t work. When they post their stacktrace, there’s all the GCJ/GIJ classes. I explain to them how GCJ isn’t java and doesn’t (fully) support swing and that they should just [...]

I don’t really think of sys-con.com’s linux site when I’m looking for Java news but this entry caught my eye. In it, he complains about the tendency of java libraries to make heavy use of patterns like the Factory pattern to provide as much flexibility as possible. He’s not the first one I’ve [...]