Free Eclipse Classpath Ant Task
Joey Gibson has written an Ant task that makes “it a little easier to work on a project using both Ant and Eclipse. What this task does is read the .classpath file that Eclipse uses to maintain your project’s classpath, combines that with your Eclipse preferences to expand classpath variables and then creates a path-like structure in your Ant project that you can compile against.” It relies on JDOM.
How Microsoft Lost the API War
Une très intéressante analyse à propos du développement sous Windows, évoquant également des sujets tels que les langages avec gestion automatique de la mémoire, ou encore la façon dont Microsoft a gagné certaines batailles notamment dans la bureautique :
Microsoft grew up during the 1980s and 1990s, when the growth in personal computers was so dramatic that every year there were more new computers sold than the entire installed base. That meant that if you made a product that only worked on new computers, within a year or two it could take over the world even if nobody switched to your product. That was one of the reasons Word and Excel displaced WordPerfect and Lotus so thoroughly […]