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In: Java
10 Jun 2003JavaWorld has announced the winners of the JavaWorld 2002 Editors’ Choice Awards. These are the results (with my predictions ;)) Best Java Data Access Tool: Winner: Oracle 9iAS TopLink Finalists: CocoBase Enterprise O/R 4.5, Hibernate 1.2.4 My prediction: N/A Best Java IDE: Winner: IntelliJ IDEA 3.0 Finalists: Borland JBuilder 8.0, Eclipse 2.1 My prediction: Borland [...]
In: Web development
10 Jun 2003Judging from this thread titled Your Age at SitePoint Forums, the web development and web design world is full of young talent. Patrick O’Keefe (iFroggy) is only 18 but runs a webhosting business, a webdesign business, and is webmaster of many popular communities. Marc James (mjames) is 17 and runs a successful sports-related site at [...]
In: Mozilla
7 Jun 2003A quick update on the last post. It seems I may seem to have made Mozilla browsers seem disadvantageous in an IE-centric world. Well, you can always get past those sites that reject non-IE browsers with the User Agent Switcher extension that allows you to spoof your user agent as IE (or Netscape, or IE [...]
In: Mozilla
7 Jun 2003mmj at SitePoint Forums has pointed out a link to a page that lists websites entitled ‘Sites that make Mozilla sad‘. Those sites apparently aren’t too interested in the Mozilla/Netscape user population, catering only to Internet Explorer users *gasp*. www.kingfisher.com has this to say: To view the full Kingfisher plc site, please install a new-generation [...]
In: Mozilla
6 Jun 2003Just a quick update – I’ve since been using Thunderbird and was pretty surprised to notice that it seems to integrate with FireBird on its own. I got an email notification with a small notice box popping up at the bottom-right corner of the screen, like how it is with MSN messenger. Thunderbird was not [...]