jsPgnViewer & stuff

Disclaimer: I’m affiliated with the product and this might be taken as a commercial but nevertheless things will start to change.

Before moving to Java (mostly JEE) I did couple of years PHP development. The thousand levels of abstraction, tons of third party libraries and most importantly the ever taking change-check cycle were something difficult to accept. I was so used to getting feedback automatically and could not even imagine that one day I will even have to re-traverse some application just to store some state.

For the past months I have been working on team battling the change->compile->redeploy cycle. Today there is a release. It is called JavaRebel and the product brings the cycle down to change->compile->check. Classes loaded by the container can be changed and JavaRebel inbetween will load these changes (adding/removing/changing fields, methods etc.).

When I was working on my Google Summer Of Code project I had to buy extra RAM just to be able to run couple of instances of Eclipse. I was not willing to buy a new CPU to make the restarting these instances of Eclipse faster. JavaRebel does not have Eclipse support but it is in the roadmap.

There is a screencast up that will demo some features of it. Java development will change.

On Monday I wanted to submit a story to reddit.com. To submit a story you need a username. The registering is quite easy. Once you have an account you can submit a story.

There is one BUT though. If you have happen to fail with the captcha you will get a warning to try again. Once you try again you get a warning that you are submitting too fast. Once you’ve got that warning you’re out of luck. At least I was.

I tried again and of course got the submitting too fast error again and again. I waited couple of hours (although the message says to wait a while – whatever that means) I still was not able to post the story. The same couple of hours later and a day later. All because I missed a captcha.

Here are some images of really good captchas from reddit.

PS. If I miss the captcha when posting this to reddit I won’t try again.