Blogging Roller

Lance points out another free Roller service. Awesome! That brings the total to three: FreeRoller, blogs.application-server.com, and the newest Kalixia.

Shawn A. Van Ness quoted by Brad Wilson: The biggest single thing that killed hungarian within MS, for .NET, is the lack of consistency with which it's been used. That's the one thing that both the proponents *and* opponents of hungarian could agree on: the single worst variable naming convention in the world is "inconsistent hungarian". And so, nobody could come up with a perfectly consistent (yet reasonably consice) system for applying hungarian notation to such a richly typed world as .NET (viz. what's the prefix for ApplicationException?). So it's gone. End of story.

This was one of the comments on my Eclipse 2.1 M4 out of memory! story:

Ted Stockwell: Yep. And the more third-party plugins you use the worse the problem will get. You can thank SWT for that. Java developers aren't used to dealing with the mindless drudgery of explicity releasing any and all resources that they use. It's back to the bad ole days of C++ resource management for SWT developers.

I don't know enough about this to refute it, but I never noticed any memory problems with Eclipse before M4 and I am using the same plugins now as I did before.

The other comment on the story was from a person named 'gizmo' who recommends that I start Eclipse like so: eclipse.exe -vmargs -Xmx256m.