The goodness of the day isn’t over yet. The newest version of the Groovy Eclipse Plugin is also out now! I can’t wait to try out the code completion magics.

Following last year’s Callisto, Eclipse Europa is officially out on 6/29! Go get it while it’s hot!

In the meanwhile, GPLv3 is scheduled to launch on the same day! It’s reported that R.S will launch GPLv3 via a video stream on the organisation’s Web site.

What’s more, the much anticipated and crazed over iPhone will be out on 6/29! Bloggers, CEOs And everyone else’s camping lives finally come to and end. Phewww…

Oh wait. There’s also a new fight for freedom starting on this day. What a day!

其实Grails用MySQL数据源处理中文还是很方便的，基本只要注意2点：

1. 在xxxDataSource.groovy里，mysql url注意要加上参数，例如：jdbc:mysql://server?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8
2. MySQL数据库要用UTF-8编码

另外，gsp里要注意：
< meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″ />
默认应该就是这样。

找到一篇古老的文章 ，终于搞定了在jroller输入中文的问题！感谢jackz！

方法简述：
新建entry的时候页面编码选择为ISO-8859-1，发表出来的内容就能正确的以UTF8显示中文字符了。

1. Make them project managers.
2. Make them managers.
3. Enroll them in all kinds of full-length time-consuming leadership classes.
4. Ask them to attend numerous stupid meetings and conference calls on behalf of the team.
5. Ask them to spend a lot of time sorting out various best practices and coding guidelines that will never be read or used by anyone else.
6. Bug them with licensing concerns with every code library they want to use.
7. Ask them to submit purchase request for software they want to use once a year. If they miss the time, they have to wait another year.
8. Lock them in the project important for your promotion and reject their requests to leave the project because they think it’s boring.
9. Reject their requests to travel to tech conferences they are dying to attend so that you can balance your quarterly cost.
10. Tell them you love them so that you can keep their pay low without feeling guilty.

Second life is a crap. Because

1. Second life is using a crappy 3D engine.
Even the Quake3 engine from 8 years ago is far superior than this crap.
Some people get excited that they can “fly” in SL. Are they kidding? If flying is a feature, then I’ll call the ability to bury my body into the earth while walking another fantastic feature.
Some people claim that SL has magical scriptability. Wait. Is 3D engines supporting scripting and custom modeling a new at all?

2. Second life is a crappy software which crashes every time I try to exit the program.
Yes, that’s true. And don’t argue with me about that.

3. Second life is pointless.
So the SL huggers say SL is NOT a game. Alright. So what? People shouldn’t judge SL with criteria for games?
I don’t care if it’s a game or not, as long as it has a point. People just get curious about this brand new 3D metaverse which others keep talking about. They want to see for themselves what it’s like. So they create an account and choose an ugly avatar. They start from the training island. They learn how to walk and how to fly. They complete the tutorial and, now what? Exactly. No point from then on. I don’t have a reason to convince myself to explore the wacky islands there and waste my 1st life.

Second life is a hype. Because

1. Grandpa/Outsider/Pretender corporations hug SL to show off their geeky side.
SL huggers claim that SL is so wonderful that the corporate world loves it.
Yes, corporates are loving SL. See who’s on the top 8 SL corporate site list Reuters, Cisco, Sun, …Wait, where’s Google, or Yahoo!, or Microsoft? Now that SL is so wonderful, why don’t I see any serious software and internet company dwelling there?

2. The huge media hype is due to the domino effect
The mass media is amateurish and has always been a pretender about technologies. Some day one press begins with SL. Its competitors have absolutely no idea about the “metaverse”. Yet they mindlessly join the hype just because they are so worried about being left behind about the new hot “techie” stuff. That starts the domino effect and after a while people forget how this began in the first place.

3. More people are not visiting Second Life after the first few times
Latest report shows that SL is losing regular visitors at a considerable rate. Sorry I can’t find the link to that article now. I’ll add it once I recover it.
SL is getting more and more one time new visitors, and fewer and fewer regular visitors. This is typical of a hype phenomenon. When the hype is fading, the long tail shows up.

To sum up, Second Life is both a hype and a crap. But don’t get me wrong. I believe the metaverse is the future for the internet. But metaverse!=SL. The mode of metaverse that I believe will dominate the future will be the one which replicates the real world instead of a pointless chaotic one. In a replica metaverse, one can take virtual tours to every other corner of the world. They do things they actually can do in the real world. At that time, surfing the internet will simply be an extended experience of real life. And there’s no reason why it shouldn’t be like that.