Onyxbits

Actually, I had intended to keep religion out of my blog, but browsing the web, especially youtube, I see this increadibly stupid argument being made over and over again. It is so deeply annoying that I feel a need to break my own rules and rant about it anyway. The argument, I am talking about, starts with a scripture quote and then goes on rumbling how misogynistic the bible is:

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If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he
must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman

Let's talk about Java and internationalization. Java makes a pretty clear point about being platform independent and so it's only logical to also try to keep user interfaces language neutral. When you read the Java I18N trail however, it more or less only tells you to use ResourceBundleS, but keeps rather quiet about best practice. What you are essentially left alone with are the four most important questions:

• What's a good naming scheme for keys?
• How do you organize the property files?

This is utmost annoying: Swing MDI has been around for ages and nowhere there's a decent, ready to use window placement algorithm to be found. I mean, I understand that there's no one size fits all solution to this problem, but you should at least expect some example code somewhere. The JDesktopPane class is pretty much useless if you are just going to pop up your JInternalFrameS at 0,0 and then expect the user to arrange them. Yet, nothing, zip, zilch that would even give you an idea of writing a window positionier.

Do you know this kind of situation? You get an email - A bug report for one of your applications and it kinda reads like: "Help, your app is broken - please fix it". Now it's your job to help the user figure out which application is meant (assuming your portfolio contains several) and more importantly, which version of that application s/he is actually using. A task, that usually includes sending back and forth a number of extra emails, just to explain how to gather the required information.