October 29, 2007

Wordpress update

Christian Decker wrote this mid-afternoon:

Well it was about time, so I finally upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress for the blog. Some of you might have noticed a change in the URLs: the blog now has its own subdomain.

I didn’t want to lose the incoming links as they are the main entry point to the blog, so I had some hacking to do, but it worked out pretty well. Basically I’m using the HTTP code 301 (Moved Permanently) to redirect all visitors to the new URL.

Oh, and last but not least I expect to restart blogging more frequently soon, as I wont be so swamped as I am now, so expect some tutorials and stuff coming up :D

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October 25, 2007

Java, a retrospective

Christian Decker wrote this in the wee hours:

I’ve been a java programmer since it came out in 1995. My father discovered that I was writing small scripts for some computer games and asked me whether I was interested in learning a real programming language.

Java was easy enough that i could write programs for my day to day usage, my masterpiece being an HTTP-Proxy to be able to surf the web (remember the 56kbs modems? :D).

Java had a troubled story, loosing both the browser and the desktop as a platform it was soon banned to mobile phones and to the serverside, but it also brought us some great changes for which we should be grateful. For once they introduced a good set of standard libraries which i so sorely miss in other languages, and with java it suddenly was easy to put together great applications. ReadWriteWeb has a really good look at the history of java which i think everyone should have read, i certainly felt touched while reading it.

Java was and still is a revolutionary technology, so revolutionary that Sun Microsystems recently changed its Stock Symbol from SUNW to JAVA.

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