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I was trying to open up J2SE 1.5 API docs by searching "j2se1.5 api". As usual, first with Google, I really don't like the result:

In contrast, Yahoo! is much better in this case (with exact search terms):

Finally I decided to change my behavior of web search from always using Google to using both Yahoo! and Google alternatively.

PM - Project manager (who don't know Java at all), Dev1 - developer 1, Dev2 - developer 2

PM: Can we call ActiveX from Java?

Dev1: (Rolling eyes) What is that for?

PM: Because we're having an existing ActiveX component which can generate PDF

Dev1: But there's bunch of free Java tools can do that also...

PM: But we already have an existing tool, so...

Dev2: (Exciting) Why don't we use Web service?

PM: You know how to do it?

Dev2: Yeah, Web service can literally call anything, and blah blah blah...

Dev1: (Faint) ...

A friend of mine asked me what is it so cool about Matisse but unfortunately I was busy at the moment and didn't get the chance to discuss with him in more details.
Many developers are having the wrong perception that Matisse is just trying to achieve what Visual Studio is having for years, as a matter of fact, it is much much more than that.
Kindly follow this link to see one of the many cool things of Matisse.

Did not expect that there is so much differences on CVSNT security issues between Linux and Windows. On Linux, what we all have to master is generally editing some config files like "passwd" and "config" in order to administer the user rights. But on Windows, we can actually ignore those config files but using the Windows security facility to manipulate user access control.
OK, next we'll be deciding whether to migrate the existing codebase to the CVS or apply the CVS only to coming projects. Again, it will be some lengthy decision making processes involved.

If you're a developer of existing project, would you like to change your current behavior of using source code control? The positive response could be the only thing to justify the migration.

We was watching the demos of Mantis and Eventum and discussing which one to use, and the final decision is we're going for Mantis (just 1 vote different). Two major reasons we've selected Mantis are it is easy to use and more easy to setup. Personally I find both options (both also php+mysql) are good and able to meet our requirements. Although Mantis is relatively having fewer features than Eventum, Mantis is fairly simple to use. You don't need any training or user manual before using it and it won't scare you away or confuse you.
Tentatively, everyone in the company will start using it end of this week.

I believe that by using it, we can really track our issues.

Since we've pretty much solved the minor problem of issue tracking, next week we'll see how we can improve our process of using the system.


PS: You can download the draft proposal here and I'm not so willing to say that we're using WAMP instead of LAMP.

I just know that the final release of Netbeans IDE 5.0 has been released and was trying my luck to upgrade my current beta version with the IDE Update Center instead of downloading the installer separately. But I just couldn't upgrade anything but features and libraries by using the Update Center. Despite the fact that some other good softwares like Yahoo! Messenger and iTunes also require the users to download the entire installer all over again, I find they're better in this upgrading mechanism in the sense that they alert you the updates upon startup and allow you to download the newer installer within the software itself.
However, this is only a minor and non critical feature which I'd like to have in Netbeans IDE.