Comments(1) Dear readers what impact will this have? My Mac can already create PDFs. Think Free Office produces PDFs. And Microsoft may not be likely to bother because they’re pushing their own standard in this area.
Adobe to send PDF to standards group | CNET News.com
Comments(0) My software company has updated to Groovy 1.0. There were a few subtle syntax changes (due to a stricter parser) and one not so subtle one (@Property was removed). I’ve followed Groovy for many years and am happy to see it reach 1.0.
The two features I like most are the conveniences for handling bean properties and closures. Two other features I make use of are the on-demand compilation (take any string/stream representing a class and get a class/object back) and the dynamic dispatch (invokeMethod can be overriden to handle any scenario).
I’d love to see these features rolled into Java.
Groovy 1.0 is there - Groovy - Confluence
PS: Maybe it’s time to take a look at Ruby.
Comments(0) The article, “Why PUT and DELETE?” at Artima is perhaps the best article I’ve read describing why PUT and DELETE are useful. The argument boils down to PUT and DELETE are idempotent, PUT allows you to create a resource at a client-specified URL, and POST is the catch-all that can do all of these things, but with different semantics. In the end, the developer has to decide if the semantics are important enough to require PUT and DELETE. In general, I suggest that systems are simpler if they support PUT and DELETE instead of disguising these verbs with POST.