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Swing music

About a year and half ago I downloaded a couple of MP3s of Robbie Williams’ album “Swing when you’re winning” and for some reason I just loved it. I got the album about half a year ago and a couple of weeks ago I bought the “Live at the albert” DVD too.

RSS

Alright, my second shot at writing a little about RSS. The previous attempt resulted in “The Church of XML”:http://www.zefhemel.com/archives/2004/09/12/the-church-of-xml. I’ll briefly describe what RSS is and why it is useful. I won’t talk about the internals of the RSS XML format, simply because they’re too boring.

Browser Wars, Episode II

It has been a while since Browser Wars, Episode I took place on an IT planet near you. To refresh your memory, what happened again?

In the early days of the internet, Netscape was the main provider of browser software. There was little competition. That…

Eclipse 3.0M5 released

It’s amazing to see that they can still come up with new features in Eclipse (although some prelimitary Java 1.5 support would be nice). Milestone 5 of Eclipse 3 has some nice new features, such as:

• Generalize Type refactoring (Hashtable t = new Hashtable(); =>…

“OOP Is Much Better in Theory Than in Practice”

Two days ago DevX published a three-page rant from Richard Mansfield about how OOP has failed. It’s amazing how much words Richard needs to actually say nothing, or at least not much more than what the title already told. OOP sucks, because…