{"id":718,"date":"2007-02-09T16:58:23","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T22:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/bruce-eckel-on-java-javascript-and-flex\/"},"modified":"2007-02-09T16:58:23","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T22:58:23","slug":"bruce-eckel-on-java-javascript-and-flex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/bruce-eckel-on-java-javascript-and-flex\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Eckel on Java, Javascript and Flex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an <a title=\"AJAXWorld\" href=\"http:\/\/ajaxworldmagazine.com\/read\/333329.htm\">awesome article<\/a> by <a title=\"Bruce Eckel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mindview.net\/\">Bruce Eckel<\/a>, author of Thinking in Java, about Java, Javascript, AJAX and Flex among other things. It&#8217;s really about how to write web applications in general. Bruce has been around since the beginning. I remember downloading the first edition of Thinking In Java way back when. He was one of the first authors I remember that provided his book in electronic form for <a title=\"Thinking In Java\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mindviewinc.com\/\">free<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis quote jumped out at me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And more and more often, when I use web applications like GMail, my \u00e2\u20ac\u0153control-c\u00e2\u20ac\u009d copy operation stops working. It could be Windows, Firefox, JavaScript or something else but it seems to be associated with web apps and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been happening for at least a year. And frankly I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t <em>care<\/em> why it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happening, and neither does any other consumer. When things this simple are broken, the outlook is not promising.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed this as well and hadn&#8217;t spent the time narrowing it down to blame GMail. Anyway, I haven&#8217;t had much exposure to Flex and my experience with Flash was the same as his originally. Cost was a big barrier to entry. Apparently, that&#8217;s no longer the case. Time to take a look at <a title=\"Flex\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flex.org\/\">Flex<\/a>, I think. Where the hell have I been?<\/p>\n<p>[tags]bruceeckel, java, javascript, ajax, flex, ria[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an awesome article by Bruce Eckel, author of Thinking in Java, about Java, Javascript, AJAX and Flex among other things. It&#8217;s really about how to write web applications in general. Bruce has been around since the beginning. I remember downloading the first edition of Thinking In Java way back when. He was <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/bruce-eckel-on-java-javascript-and-flex\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-bA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}