{"id":50,"date":"2013-05-14T02:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/colin\/morethanfour\/post\/From-the-Look-at-me-Im-an-idiot-department"},"modified":"2020-08-15T15:06:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T23:06:17","slug":"from-the-look-at-me-im-an-idiot-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/2013\/05\/14\/from-the-look-at-me-im-an-idiot-department\/","title":{"rendered":"From the &#8220;Look at me, I&#8217;m an idiot&#8221; department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If this was April 1st, I&#8217;d be sure that this was satire, but as it is, I&#8217;m not sure:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technetwork\/java\/javase\/overview\/jdk-version-number-scheme-1918258.html\">Java SE &#8211; Change in Version Numbering scheme in March 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case this vanishes off the web, here&#8217;s the gist:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013%2f5%2foracle_java_version_numbers.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seriously? I don&#8217;t know who is to blame for this loss of sanity. Oracle, you are not so damn important that you need to re-invent this. My understanding is that there is a well-established convention for numbering incremental versions of a product, that allows for such concepts as minor feature releases and bug fix releases.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme is nicely described here on <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/615227\/how-to-do-version-numbers\">Stack Overflow: How to do version numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What is sad is that back in the Sun days, Java release did follow this numbering convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this was April 1st, I&#8217;d be sure that this was satire, but as it is, I&#8217;m not sure: Java SE &#8211; Change in Version Numbering scheme in March 2013 In case this vanishes off the web, here&#8217;s the gist: Seriously? I don&#8217;t know who is to blame for this loss of sanity. Oracle, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-commentary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}