Die Kanzlerin fürchtet um ihr Prestigeprojekt: Der Netzausbau lahmt und droht, die Energiewende zum Fiasko werden zu lassen. Die Betreiber übergeben Merkel nun einen Plan. Darin rechnen sie mit Kosten von etwa 20 Milliarden Euro.
...
Manche Forscher sehen jedoch keinen Grund zu Alarmismus. Das Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) prüfte kürzlich den Stand des Netzausbaus, immerhin sind mittlerweile gut 200 Kilometer neuer Leitungen gebaut. Die Bundesnetzagentur stellt den aktuellen Stand des Netzausbaus online. Die Experten vom DIW gaben nach ihrer Untersuchung Entwarnung (PDF-Datei). "Langsam, aber planmäßig" schreite der Ausbau voran, konstatierten die Wissenschaftler. "Panik aufgrund einer vermuteten Netzlücke ist daher unangebracht."

Neubau der Ruppiner Chaussee von Bezirksgrenze bis ca. 70 m hinter Schulzendorfer Straße in Berlin Heiligensee

Zur Erhöhung der Verkehrssicherheit, der Mängelbeseitigung sowie zur Anlage von Geh- und Radwegen plant das Bezirksamt Reinickendorf einen grundhaften Neubau der Ruppiner Chaussee von Bezirksgrenze bis rd. 70 m hinter Schulzendorfer Straße.

Die Fahrbahn der Ruppiner Chaussee befindet sich in einem überalterten desolaten baulichen Zustand. In Teilbereichen vorhandene Gehwegbefestigungen wurden nur provisorisch zur Erhaltung der Verkehrssicherheit angelegt. Als Angebot zum Radfahren ist nur ein schmaler unebener asphaltierter Streifen an der nordöstlichen Seite vorhanden. Eine ordnungsgemäße Ableitung des anfallenden Oberflächenwassers ist auf Grund des Fehlens einer durchgängigen Regenwasserkanalisation nicht gewährleistet. Lediglich zwischen Kiefheider Weg und Am Dachsbau ist ein Regenkanal vorhanden.

Die Ruppiner Chaussee ist im Stadtentwicklungsplan Verkehr der Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung als wichtige Verbindungsstraße der Stufe II ausgewiesen. Sie dient neben dieser Funktion auch als Sammelstraße der angrenzenden Wohngebiete sowie als Umleitungsstrecke der Autobahn A 111.

Die Kosten des Neubaus der Ruppiner Chaussee einschließlich der Regenentwässerungsanlage werden auf rd. 7 Mio. Euro geschätzt.

Die Planung sieht eine 7,0 m breite Fahrbahn mit baulich angelegten Rad- und Gehwegen im Seitenbereich vor.

Durch Beschluss des Abgeordnetenhauses von Berlin ist mit Wirkung vom 25.03.2006 das Straßenausbaubeitragsgesetz (StrABG) in Kraft getreten. Entsprechend dieses Gesetzes ist der Bezirk gesetzlich verpflichtet, nach Beendigung der Straßenbaumaßnahme von den Eigentümern der anliegenden Grundstücke anteilige Straßenausbaubeiträge zu erheben.

Die nachfolgende aufgeführte Straßenplanung stellt die Entwurfsplanung dar. Der Baubeginn ist ab März 2012 vorgesehen.

Von Matthias Kolb, New York

Im Winter war sie abgetaucht, viele hatten die Occupy-Bewegung für erledigt erklärt. Doch nun melden sich die selbsternannten 99 Prozent zurück. In New York marschierten Tausende zur Wall Street, um gegen die Macht der Banken zu demonstrieren. Wurde die Bewegung am 1. Mai tatsächlich wiederbelebt?

Energiehungrig, aber zunehmend geizig mit "Seltenen Erden", jener für viele Elektronikprodukte unverzichtbaren Rohstoffe – so wird die Wirtschaftsmacht China in westlichen Industrienationen oft gesehen. In diesem Jahr ist die Volksrepublik Partnerland der Hannover Messe (23. bis 27. April 2012). Auf der "weltgrößten Industrieschau" nehmen mehr Firmen und Regionen aus dem Reich der Mitte teil als jemals zuvor an einer Ausstellung im Aus

Ein Traumstrand ohne Hotelburgen, ein Spukschloss, ein Freibad im Fjord: Manche Erlebnisse bleiben selbst für erfahrene Vielreisende ein Leben lang unvergesslich. Auf der neuen interaktiven Karte von SPIEGEL ONLINE verraten Reiseprofis ihre Geheimtipps - Fernweh garantiert!

Berlin ist hier immer noch im Werden begriffen.

On your development server using the GAE jars, however, you can do it (see http://www.hackers-with-attitude.com/2009/08/intertactive-pr... for some guidance). There is nothing like being a C-c C-c away from updating your development server app :)

I can't emphasize enough taking the time to get Slime, your GAE development server, lein, and Clojure well-integrated. Your development cycle will make good ol' Java GAE development using the Eclipse plug-in (which I used to think was pretty sweet) feel really really clunky.

(See also http://elhumidor.blogspot.com/2009/04/clojure-on-google-appe... for some pointers on setting up Clojure on GAE)
...

smartrevolution 689 days ago | link

Hi. I am from above mentioned TheDeadline-Team!

We can definitly recommend Google App Engine. The SDK is really cool and you don't have to care about managing servers. Scaling is easy. Its (almost) automatic. The datastore is a natural fit for Clojure datastructures, but you have to learn how to structure your data for a distributed key-value store: When you structure your data, you have to think about what has to be in the same transaction (entity-group) and at the same time you have to think about reducing data-dependencies to minimize contention. But when you have lots of data, this is what you have to do anyway. For me, it is much more fun than using an RDBMS. (Read this: http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/appengine/docs/python/data...)

We did the whole system in Clojure, so you really can write large systems using Clojure/GAE. It works! (Although the UI is simple, TheDeadline is a complex piece of software e.g. containing a self-written rule-based expert-system, a production system, very similar to LISA http://lisa.sourceforge.net/.)

The functional paradigm means less code and makes it easier to build powerful abstractions. You don't have to write lots of boiler-plate code like in Java and Clojure is more concises and much more powerful than Python. (Stop! I don't want to start a programming language discussion now! :) ).

We will soon post some Clojure examples and some free software libraries for GAE.

If you are interested, just follow our blog H.W.A. (http://www.hackers-with-attitude.com) and/or try out http://the-deadline.appspot.com to get the "feeling". ;)

Preston-Werner’s bet has paid off. GitHub is now profitable. Users can sign up for free and start contributing, but they pay money if they want to privately host code there — starting at $7 per month. GitHub also sells an enterprise product that lets companies run your own version of GitHub behind the corporate firewall. That starts at $5,000 per year, but can cost hundreds of thousands annually for companies with hundreds of coders.
...
When Scott Chabon wrote a book about GitHub, the first fork appeared within a month. It was a German translation of his book. Now, three years later, it’s been translated into 10 languages, with another 10 translations in the works. Half of the traffic to the book’s website comes from China. “Tons of people in China are learning Git because they can read [the book] in Chinese on my website, because somebody provided that,” he says

The Steve Martin Method

People often ask Martin about the secret to making it in the entertainment industry. His answer often disappoints. It does not involve any tricks (or, as we might call them: “hacks”). No insider path to getting an agent or special formatting to get your screenplay read. Instead, it’s all built on one simple idea:

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”

For my part, I want to encourage people to make their own languages, because doing it makes you a world-class programmer. Seriously. Not just a better programmer, but a best programmer. I've said it before, and I'm sticking with it: having a deep understanding of compilers is what separates the wheat from the chaff. I say that without having the slightest frigging clue what "chaff" is, but let's assume it's some sort of inferior wheat substitute, possibly made from tofu.............D's a really beautiful language. By rights it should be the next C++. However, C++ programmers won't have it because it's garbage collected (even though it can be disabled, and even though Stroustroup himself is now advocating adding garbage collection to C++). Walter Bright is one hell of a lot smarter than the C++ programmers who won't look at his language, and he has demonstrated that D is as fast as or faster than C++ and nearly as expressive as Ruby or Python. It's a secret weapon just waiting to be seized by some smart company or open-source project.
...
Here's a short list of programming-language features that have become ad-hoc standards that everyone expects:

Object-literal syntax for arrays and hashes
Array slicing and other intelligent collection operators
Perl 5 compatible regular expression literals
Destructuring bind (e.g. x, y = returnTwoValues())
Function literals and first-class, non-broken closures
Standard OOP with classes, instances, interfaces, polymorphism, etc.
Visibility quantifiers (public/private/protected)
Iterators and generators
List comprehensions
Namespaces and packages
Cross-platform GUI
Operator overloading
Keyword and rest parameters
First-class parser and AST support
Static typing and duck typing
Type expressions and statically checkable semantics
Solid string and collection libraries
Strings and streams act like collections
Additionally, NBL will have first-class continuations and call/cc. I hear it may even (eventually) have a hygienic macro system, although not in any near-term release.

statictype 508 days ago | link

Java as a langauge is generally uninteresting to talk about. There are vary few "wow, that's a clever hack" constructs to be made in the language. But certainly, that doesn't mean software created with it can't be great.

See also: PHP

-----


abp 508 days ago | link

I think you actually wanted to say something like "most of javas libraries are uninteresting". The language itself is interesting, i think. It lacks some modern and no-oop concepts for sure, but that don't make it actually bad.

The verbose libraries and configuration addiction of many java library vendors, including nearly all Sun libs i know, is the real problem.

You can, on the other hand, find a massive amount of really nice and concise libraries that make java feal great for many tasks. Even custom compiler extensions for language simplifications or cross breeding with groovy etc. aren't uncommon.

Also if you look at the JVM as a platform and java as the beginning of learning to work with a platform, you've got a great pool of languages to choose from, too. That wouldn't be possible without java.

I sometimes dislike java myself, but then i abstract the verbose parts behind some static builder methods, for example and write a lot less with great outcome in java.

The real shortcomings in the language design itself can suck hard. By ignoring these parts and using libraries for it and knowing what to watch out for, you can really get proficient with java. Keep Blochs "Effective Java" in reach and everything will be fine.

Actually i'm not programming in java that long. But I've written some desktop apps and some little JSP pages. Besides that i enjoy learning and following frameworks like the Play framework, because i think it's really promising and valuable for web development. Also getting to know many open source libraries is nice.

-----


jemfinch 508 days ago | link

That there are not many clever hacks to be made in the language is a feature, not a bug.

-----


Goladus 508 days ago | link

And therefore not that interesting to read about on a news site. You don't see that many articles about factoring quadratic equations, either.

-----


Goladus 509 days ago | link

To the extent that's actually true (and I'm not convinced it is, because Java can mean a few different things) that's largely because there's not a whole lot that's interesting or new in the Java Language compared to many others, and Java does not lend itself well to "cure heart disease in 20 lines of Python" style blog entries.

But the JVM is an important platform and Java is the native language. There are lots of interesting applications written in Java.

-----


martingordon 508 days ago | link

This has more to do with Java being uninteresting than with Java being the best tool for certain situations.

-----


syaz1 509 days ago | link

Except in dzone. Almost all java-related submissions get high upvotes.

-----


kurokikaze 508 days ago | link

It will be fun to crawl Hackernews and find out "average score" for each language :)

-----


hungh3 508 days ago | link

Absolutely agree. Language is the medium, not the expression. What matters is how we use it to express our ideas.

Java is too verbose? So what's Eclipse for? Sometimes, a bit too verbose can be good in terms of maintenance and readability.

-----


weavejester 508 days ago | link

Well, it's more that Java lacks certain functionality that's intrinsic to more sophisticated languages. It's often harder to express ideas in Java because it has a more limited vocabulary (to stretch an analogy).

-----


ojbyrne 509 days ago | link

I suspect that the Lightweight Java Game Library is seeing a spike in downloads.

-----


SwellJoe 509 days ago | link

I hate Java and I haven't done any game development since I was a kid, and I thought, "Hmm...I should check that out!"

-----


metamemetics 509 days ago | link

If you hate Java check out SFML: Simple Fast Multimedia Library

It's in CC++.NET but also has bindings for Python, D, and Ruby. http://www.sfml-dev.org

If you want to do 3D but aren't up for writing OpenGL, check out OGRE3D. Open-source and former Diablo 2 developers from Bizzard North released a game called Torchlight with it recently. http://www.ogre3d.org/

-----


knotty66 509 days ago | link

I am just using this now. It seems very nice - cleaner than SDL.

One thing to watch out for if you use the unreleased 2.0 branch of the library, is that the OS X port is not quite there yet. So if you want to target that platform it may be better to use the stable 1.x branch.

http://www.sfml-dev.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3214

-----


metamemetics 509 days ago | link

If you get the ball rolling on a crossplatform game project and don't want to go public, private gitfarm it and I'm sure you could find some HNers to join in.

-----


city41 509 days ago | link

It's a well written library, however it's not an engine or a framework. All it does is enable OpenGL, OpenAL and game pads in Java. The LWJGL team just calls it an "enabling" library.

-----