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Join me online @ Java Ranch this week.

Posted on November 18, 2003 by Bill Dudney



The great folks at Java Ranch are doing a book promo for the J2EE AntiPatterns book this week.
I'll be online checking and responding to messages. They will be drawing names from the list of posters to give away copies of the book.

Hope to see you there!

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Upgrade to Panther

Posted on November 18, 2003 by Bill Dudney


Well I finally upgraded to Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) last night since my presentations at No Fluff were finally over and I felt like I could aford the hit of potentiall nothing working. Since several people I've talked to have had very easy transistions I figured it would be no problem.

Well turns out that there are several problems, so far

  • Emacs.app won't run one or two bounces and then nothing
  • Eclipse 2.1.2 won't run on the 1.4.1 JDK, runs OK on the 1.3.1 though so I've switched back

Thankfully I found the following binary Emacs for Panther that seems to be working just fine.
Other impressions
  • So far I like the new finder
  • Seems faster
  • Terminal app starts almost instantly
  • The new iChat is very cool!

Now back to work. I'll post more later as I get into working with Panther.

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