Televisión reencantada

Vemos que la TVE socialista no es más respetuosa con la cultura que la popular. Los nuevos gestores (¿no iban a acabar con los programas basura?) no vacilan en jugar con las heces de antaño y reponer la basura de Planeta encantado. Defecar sobre la historia, se ve, es una tentación irresistible. En cualquier caso, como con el contacto con excremento puede causar enfermedades, les dejo unas vacunillas.

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Proyectos en Java desconocidos pero útiles

Carlos E. Perez ofrece una lista de proyectos Java muy poco conocidos que se muestran muy útiles. Evidentemente, la utilidad depende de lo que a uno le interese o esté haciendo en cada momento. Con eso en cuenta, son muy interesante, ciertamente.

  1. Joda Time – Finally a respectable replacement for the Java date and time classes. Hope this relieves you from working with the unbelievably cumbersome Calendar class.

  2. Noodle – The perfect Java project is one that lets you write less Java code. So use this when it’s just not worth it to rewrite legacy Web sites in Java.

  3. VMTools – Knowing what’s changed is critical if you want to handle optimistic locking. Now if only they could give a proper name for the project.

  4. mec-eagle – You can’t always avoid having to process legacy messaging formats like EDI. Of course, you’ve got to hand it to the Germans for being so concise at naming their projects.

  5. Mondrian – Slice and dice data like there’s no tomorrow. No wonder nobody remembers this project, just look at its URL!

  6. Multivalent – The most comprehensive collection of PDF manipulation tools that nobody has ever heard of. It just takes a while to sink in that if you can display PDF then you can surely manipulate it.

  7. Hipergate – Surprisingly comprehensive CRM application, could give Salesforce.com the jitters. Unfortunately, it took them a while to translate from Spanish.

  8. JTextCheck – Comprehensive Java API to support all kinds of text checking functionality. Includes spell checking, dictionaries, thesaurus and hyphenation checking.

  9. XBIS – Having a problem with extremely bloated XML files? Supercedes XMLS, if you recall that project.

  10. Directory Poller – How often do you have to rewrite this functionality before you realize that it has already been done?

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