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ANT is one of the most common tools used by software developers today. One of the reasons that is is so popular is because it can do anything. I’m serious. I bet there is an ant task somewhere that can compile my files, package them in jars, do my laundry, and pick the kids up form daycare. OK, so maybe it isn’t quite that robust, but it is pretty close. However, with great ability comes the increased likelihood of great failures in design, and I may have just found one in ANT.
The tasks to create archive files (zip, jar, war, etc) allow multiple files of the same fully-qualified name to exist within a single archive - by default.
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Online content continually lets us down, but organizations can appeal to users by solving problems instead of delivering sales messages.
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It’s a big week for Android. Google finally released a new version of the Android SDK that is reported to be close to what developers can expect from the final 1.0 release later this year. Just after upgrading to 0.9, our own application busted just as the release notes warned it might. Our application is still fairly small so porting to 0.9 was trivial. It’s a small price to pay for what we get with Android 0.9 SDK.
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It’s back to school time, and frazzled parents are busy with their shopping checklists: New backpack with a zillion pockets— check; new trendy shoes – check; fancy scientific calculator— check; and the must-have for 2008: iPod enabled jacket with five-function keypad controller discretely attached to your MP3 player—check!
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ADO.NET Data Services (better known by its Project code name “Astoria”) was released with SP1 for .NET. The idea behind ADO .NET is that it exposes data, represented as Entity Data Model (EDM) objects, via web services accessed over HTTP. But is exposing the data this way really a good idea? I tend to agree with Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, and think that this is a horrible design idea.
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