Coding In Paradise

BitTorrent is going places, but it needs to evolve and become much easier to use. Two excellent pieces have been posted recently on possible directions BitTorrent can go to go mainstream:

• What's Wrong With: BitTorrent
  
• Battle Torrent: A greatly simplified BitTorrent experience

Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka: "It feels, stuck here, so close to the machinery of the Net, that there's a growing middle-class of fame - a whole world of people who aren't really famous, but could spend their days only talking to people who think they're fucking fantastic (or horrifyingly notorious)."

Great blog entry; I've noticed the rise of these 'microcelebrities' the more I've been in the blog world.

[via Scott Rosenberg's blog]

From the JavaLobby folks comes JDocs.com, a full repository of JavaDocs for many Java packages; they already have 50 APIs in their system. Also unique is the fact that users can leave notes attached to every method or class, documenting things that are not in the standard JavaDoc. There is also a search engine plugged into the APIs, which is nice. They support a large amount of open source APIs. A short list:

AspectWerkz	1.0	Dynamic AOP for Java
Axis	1.1	An implementation of W3C SOAP for Java
Batik	1.5.1	SVG Toolkit
Castor	0.9.5.3	An open source data binding framework.
Cayenne	1.1	Professional Object Relational Mapping
CeWolf	0.10	A tag library for charts of all kinds
cglib	2.0.2	Dynamic byte code generator
Commons Collections	3.1	Apache Jakarta Commons Collections
Commons Digester	1.5	XML to Java Object Configuration
Commons Lang	2.0	Apache Jakarta Commons Lang
Commons Logging	1.0.4	Apache Jakarta Logging API

and a bunch more. The site is fast and the search is zippy. Matt and Rick, this looks great; congratulations. The last thing you need is a way to upload your own JavaDocs into the system to be archived and indexed; I'd love to upload my own open source projects JavaDocs into the system, especially for that search function!