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http://www.scala-ide.org has come a long way and can be usable and useful. I recommend a clean install of eclipse 3.5.2 with the latest recommended build of scala-ide. Try things o…

Good luck finding a decent one bedroom apt in Sydney for $200/wk. Most places you'd want to live (eastern suburbs, inner west, northern beaches) will start at $350/wk. To get somet…

The Java Tutorials are great for people new to the Java Platform: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17409_01/javase/tutorial... Of course, the focus is the Java language... but t…

The Flash Player 10.1 release moves to a single codebase for all supported platforms. I would guess part of the reason for the delay is that they are rewriting large chunks of it t…

We've been using Wave a bit at work. It's nice that a ping (IM) can turn into a threaded chat can turn into a document. Editing, with change bars, is great. It's also great that yo…

It's interesting that the Haskell project is getting good results. Go - http://golang.org/ - doesn't use LLVM because they claim it is "large and slow". Search for llvm on http://g…

"Flash is shitty, nonredistributable, closed-source, restricted-platform, proprietary, and patent-encumbered" All true except the "shitty" part -- it's actually a nice little VM wi…

He seems to be trying to become a "center of gravity" in python-land by being controversial. Why not just work with the community in a productive non-confrontational way? Lots of o…

Reading the NYT with the new AIR-based reader is a pleasure. The fluid layout, typography, and especially the no-lag browsing, changes the experience to the point that I find mysel…

I can recommend carbonado, http://carbonado.sourceforge.net/ , if you don't want/need a full ORM, and prefer something similar to activerecord. It doesn't hide the relational model…