Monatsarchiv für October 2007

Garbage Collection in Objective-C

Tuesday, den 30. October 2007

I briefly looked at an article about Objective-C 2.0 and I’m totally disappointed. I learned the language in 1994 and I still think that it’s a really great language and much superior to others like Java, C or C++.
One of the fun parts was memory management. Former versions of Objective-C did not have garbage collection [...]

New Projects: Apache Sling and Apache Sanselan

Tuesday, den 30. October 2007

Still, there are more and moe projects getting into the Apache incubator – I’m currently involved into two of them: Sling and Sanselan.
Sanselan is a pure-Java image library for reading and writing a variety of image formats. It has been started by Charles M. Chen some years ago and is imho a great open source [...]

Cocoon GetTogether 2007 in Rome

Tuesday, den 30. October 2007

On wednesday I’ll fly over to Rome to attend the next edition of the famous Cocoon GetTogether – with two days of Hackathon and one day of presentations this is a nice mix I’m really looking forward to. On Friday, it’s Bertrand and me, talking a little bit about the past (Avalon) and the future [...]