enthusiasts united
The XVIIth podcast is live! … one wonders why the Roman Empire didn’t last much longer, doesn’t one. One also wonders how long one can refer to oneself in the whatever-person this is. (It’s… second-person? No, folks, it’s “third person.” English grammer fumbling and lesson over.) In this podcast, we chase a few things: the discussion topic centers back around on Python vs. Java, and why one might encounter one...
Aug 29, 2018 — 3 minute(s) readWelcome to the fifteenth ##java podcast. Your hosts are Joseph Ottinger, dreamreal on the IRC channel, and Andrew Lombardi (kinabalu on IRC) from Mystic Coders. As always, this podcast is basically interesting content pulled from various sources, and funneled through the ##java IRC channel on freenode. You can find the show notes at the channel’s website, at javachannel.org; you can find all of the podcasts using the tag (or even “category”) “podcast”, and...
Feb 13, 2018 — 3 minute(s) readWelcome to the fifth ##java podcast. I’m Joseph Ottinger, dreamreal on the IRC channel, and it’s Monday, 2017 October 23. This podcast covers news and interesting things from the ##java IRC channel on Freenode; if you see something interesting that’s related to Java, feel free to submit it to the channel bot, with ~submit and a URL to the interesting thing, or you can also write an article for the channel blog...
Oct 23, 2017 — 9 minute(s) readRecently a user asked what they would need to know to develop a “small web application” using Java, including a database. This is not a good question, really, but IRC user surial gave a lot of relevant information that’s worth preserving and adding to. This is not what surial said – if you’re interested in the actual content, see the channel logs – but this is a paraphrase that attempts to build on surial’s...
Aug 24, 2016 — 6 minute(s) readEditor’s note before we get to the links: I’ve been trying to keep the links’ length down to a manageable four or five, so the frequency’s been higher than I might otherwise have desired (roughly every two or three days). I’m going to try a longer list of interesting links, and move the frequency down – we’ll see if that’s useful and palatable. The problem is that ##java (and the...
Feb 1, 2016 — 3 minute(s) read