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John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame, who I have mucho respect for, linked to an article about how the Java support in the lastest version of Mac OS X is terrible. He then makes a very irresponsible statement:
“I fail to see why anyone (other than Java developers themselves) would care.”
The problem with this statement is that you should care. Why? Well, because you are a Mac user. It will take a bit to explain. Humor me.
There are many upon many businesses out there that support the Mac platform ONLY because their Java applications will run on a Mac. But this isn’t the complete reason. Hear me out.
Now, these businesses aren’t Google, Microsoft, or IBM. You probably haven’t heard the names of these businesses, let alone the names of the software they provide. They certainly aren’t household names, and your mom and dad aren’t using their applications. But they do represent a significant base of development energy. These are the guys that make it possible for the little guys and the medium guys to do business.
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Phatness.com is the personal blog of Mike Wille
I'm a developer with a passion for building products.
You can find my slides from the M3 Conference in Columbus, OH here.
Most days, you can find me stirring the cauldron at Brilliant Chemistry.
If you run your own IMAP server or if you use Thunderbird, you may have run into the problem where there are just too many emails in your folder and you need to delete them.
It seems that at a certain threshold of emails, trying to delete your email through any normal IMAP client is just impossible. I first had this happen when I was mail bombed with about 3000 emails. For some reason, Thunderbird just couldn’t handle deleting them. I would select all the messages in my inbox and hit delete. Then it would sit there for hours just spinning.
My first thought was that this was a server problem. To troubleshoot it, I created a groovy script to run through my inbox and delete the messages. It worked and actually finished it in 5 minutes! So it appears there is definitely a problem with Thunderbird and other clients.
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This is pretty cool.
P4Java
It’s a java API for integrating with Perforce SCM servers. It’s supposed to take the place of P4Package, the Perforce provided API.
I like the fact that its extensible and open source. It’s brought to us by the same people that created flowzit.com.
