… because it’s that good (here). I’ve built a rather extensive webapp (on contract) inside of 2 months with it, and it’s one giant AJAX fest. In the mean time my server-side stuff consists entirely of static plain files (the stuff GWT compiles to) and some simple servlets that read and write JSON. Which means [...]
‘major’ in the sense that there are 2 which I’ve wanted so bad, I had them on my todo list. See the new feature list here. The highlights: visible whitespace (tab/enter symbols) no more screwing around with library paths to find swt dll/so/jnilib files painlessly switch settings between workspaces; now having more than 1 workspace [...]
Apparently, I’m it!, but I’m extremely tired (spending 3 hours chewing the fat with some very talented (they do exist out here in Delft!) web 2 prodigies at the mashup contest where Alper lifted himself into top spot wasn’t exactly in the planning for an already busy day but I’m very glad I went), so [...]
Well done!
This bleh post by Reginald does feature some comments that are apparently a moderately good read…
This rather in depth article called Does bad writing reflect poor programming skills? by J. Timothy King (his blog’s byline is ‘Entrepreneurship for Software Developers who want to change the world’ – brilliant) is a good read, and it makes for a fine excuse to waste time blogging when you should be programming There’s only [...]
I’m not quite as up to speed on smalltalk as I’d like to be, but this guy seems to know a thing or two about it. He reports on being forced into using java at work for 6 months. Fortunately, he went straight for an IDE (SmallTalk is -heavily- IDE based. It had refactor-like tools [...]
I’m so happy I live in an innovative country!!
Another article about dutch politics. More (in dutch) after the jump. If you care about dutch politics but don’t know the language, a number of links to english analyses of the situation follow at the end of the article.
It’s a common claim that the ‘invention’ of programming languages (versus assemblers) amounted to an ‘order of magnitude’ shift in the ease of programming. Most people I talk to agree to this. From here it gets fishier. Joel claims there are 5 silver bullets and that’s it – and more recently insinuates there are none, [...]