Gargleblaster.org » java http://www.gargleblaster.org Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:34:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Babynamewizard.com http://www.gargleblaster.org/2005/07/29/babynamewizardcom.html http://www.gargleblaster.org/2005/07/29/babynamewizardcom.html#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2005 07:57:15 +0000 Merlijn http://www.gargleblaster.org/?p=164 This is an amazing java-applet.
Especially because it is unbelievable fast. And it’s always fun to look up your own name…Apperently mine dropped from the top 100 during the 70′s.
What surprised me was the popularity of my name during the 1930′s.

Other fun names are: Bessie (name your daughter as a cow) and Xander (the Buffy effect).
The url to the java-applet: http://www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/

]]> http://www.gargleblaster.org/2005/07/29/babynamewizardcom.html/feed 0 Visual Programming with Java http://www.gargleblaster.org/2005/07/23/visual-programming-with-java.html http://www.gargleblaster.org/2005/07/23/visual-programming-with-java.html#comments Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:53:34 +0000 Merlijn http://www.gargleblaster.org/?p=158 For my Open University course I have started with “Visual Programming with Java”.
I know it’s more fun as Discrete Math :)
And it’s quite fun to finally “learn” programming, as I’m a autodidact. The level is very very basic, but that doesn’t matter to me. In the last years my experience is that it can be very helpfull to really learn the basics.

The real fun is that I have to use windows again. The course uses Borland Jbuilder 8, with a license which only runs on windows XP according to the manual, but I use it on my very old windows98 machine without any problems.
And oh boy, what is an IDE fun. Programming like playing with LEGO.

“You have forgotten a semi-colon right here”.
Oh…thanks :)

Instead of digging through 2500 lines of code where that missing T_SPACE is…
Java is also fun to work with. Very straightforward and easier than C (no memory management / garbage collection needed). I really can tell know where PHP has it’s roots. It really helps me getting some insight in OOP concepts, which are used in PHP 5 as well.

btw…writing this on windows, WordPress really looks better in Firefox as in Safari…damn.

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