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JFluid is a Java profiler developed at Sun research. Yesterday it was announced that Sun is integrating JFluid with NetBeans. It seems only a matter of time before we get a JFluid plug-in for Eclipse. I can’t wait.

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So, one of my former Senators had this to say about the Bush tax cuts:

I would not have voted for [President Bush's] tax cut, based on what I know…There is no doubt that the people at the top who need a tax break the least will get the most benefit…Too often presidents do things that [...]

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I’d love to see the rest of the story on Friendster’s migration from JSP to PHP. The fact that the post mentions only JSP and not servlets, or some MVC framework would seem to indicate that site was an exhibit of J2EE worst practices.

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In another time and place, this would have been my dream job.

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If, as he tells anyone willing to listen, George W Bush thinks history will take care of itself and he’s only focused on the present, then why did he write a stupid little message on the note announcing Iraqi sovereignty? Nice prop for the Bush Presidential library.

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What’s with Sun and version numbers? I remember back in the day when we had Solaris 1 and Solaris 2 and SunOS 5 and SunOS 6 and then Solaris 7 and so on. If you were a Sun afficionado you know that some of those things were really the same thing, but it was a [...]

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Billmon is shutting off comments at the Whiskey Bar, for the same reason that so many people end up shutting off comments. Oddly, perhaps, I’ve been toying with the idea of enabling comments for some posts here at rc3.org. Generally when I pose a question, I get lots of really thoughtful responses, and it’s a [...]

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Apparently when a politician becomes a Presidential nominee, they’re judged by a different standard, and I don’t mean as regards fitness for office.

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Microsoft is coming out with cheap, slimmed down versions of its development tools for dabblers who don’t have the cash to pay for the full version of Visual Studio. This weekend when I was fooling around with .NET, I used vim and the C# compiler that comes with the .Net framework, and it worked [...]

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I’ve seen pointers here and there to a site called javadocs.org. When you type in a class name (or package name), it will bring up the JavaDoc for that class. What I find amazing is that the site is somewhat redundant, in that Google’s index is good enough to take care of this for you [...]

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