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Site Feeds

Jonathan has asked whether site feeds for thsi blogger are switched on. Yes, they are. Here is the URL: http://semassey.blogspot.com/atom.xml .

Tricky questions

A good friend of mine is applying for a job at a Google research lab in Switzerland. They called him and have asked the following questions (would you know):

1. How does the initial handshake in TCP/IP look like?
2. What happens if you kill a Java process with "kill -QUIT"?

SF Subversion

In case you did not know - SF supports subversion now !! I have just migrated the webofpatterns project(s) (yes, 5 modules, and more to come) from CVS to Subversion and it all works fine. I am using Tortoise SVN and the SVN Eclipse plugin as clients. Lessons learned: you need to configure the proxy for Tortoise SVN explicitely (it seems not to pick up the system settings). No trouble with Eclipse, I guess the plugin pulled the proxy config from the update and install plugin (I am doing the same in WOP now).

OpenSource in NZ

The NZ Herald has an article about the response of the NZ OS Society to an report of the State Service commission on the use of Open Source Software earlier this year. My understanding was that the report suggested to avoid "infectious" licenses such as the GPL. This is not the same as banning open source, as a lot of software is under licenses considered to be more business friendly such as Apache or LGPL.

New books

I have just received two new books on Eclipse - Gamma's / Becks "Contributing to Eclipse" and Clayberg's "Building commercial-quality plug-ins". Both are excellent, written in cookbook style. Gamma / Beck seem not to cover new Eclipse 3.0+ features. Come to my office if you want to have a look or need them for projects.

Google plans Aussie internship program

Full story from zdnet au. Not sure whether this is open to NZ studenst as well, please contanct them if you are interested and let us know what the response was.

Software engineer has been named the best job ..

Software engineer has been named the best job in the US by CNN Money. Here is the full story:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/