As soon as I find the time, I should get my feet wet in OS X/Cocoa programming. It seems to be a pretty cool and fresh way to make stuff.
I just read an article contrasting it with Java GUI programming.
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After a long period of undemocratic manoeuvring in European policy making surrounding the Software Patentability Directive we finally get a chance to cast a vote and to be heard.
Java Performance
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Another article debunking the various performance myths surrounding the Java language. With something about Escape Analysis and a public service announcement: “Object pooling is now a serious performance loss for all but the most heavyweight of objects, and even then it is tricky to get right without introducing concurrency bottlenecks.”
Open Organization
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A former teacher of mine, Ruben van Wendel de Joode, was writing a Ph.D. thesis on the organizational structure of FLOSS communities.