With much fanfare (at least on the various Java news sites), Sun has launched its latest edition of netbeans. Netbeans 5.0 is a significant improvement over 4.x. 4.x basically improved the UI to the point where it was reasonably fast and usable. 5.x consolidates the improvements by adding (a lot of) depth to the featurework [...]
Also tagged java, nokia, reviewsThis article presents an elaborate and IMHO misguided approach to handling exceptions: ONJava.com: An Exception Handling Framework for J2EE Applications
The author poses the problem that handling exceptions is tedious and leads to lots of boilerplate code. His proposed solution is to use unchecked, run.time exceptions. His reasoning is flawed for a number of reasons:
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Also tagged javaBetter late than never. I’ve been trying my hand at using Java generics to solve a nice little problem. For years I’ve been annoyed by the stupid copy paste reuse involved with JavaBeans event handling. If you are unfamiliar with it, stop reading now or learn about it elsewhere because this post is about a [...]
Also tagged javaA few days ago I commented on my intention to try out netbeans. Sadly due to a bug in the project creation wizard, I didn’t get very far and at this point fixing things manually (by hacking the project xml file) is not something I want to do. I did manage to get a [...]
Also tagged javaI have some mixed feelings about Netbeans. Long time ago, netbeans was my favourite IDE. This was during the days that IDEs cost money, were slow and generally a pain in the ass. Up until netbeans my preferred environment was an editor, a dos box and a compiler. Netbeans fixed that. The 1.x versions [...]
Also tagged java, reviewsI work with eclipse at work so it’s always nice to see new goodies from eclipse.org. I haven’t had time yet to check these out but I sure will. Eclipse M4 & Web Tools Project M2 was a little shaky for me so I had to revert back to Eclipse 3.0.1 & MyEclipse. I [...]
Also tagged javaI had some more fun with subclipse today. The integration with eclipse is much better than I anticipated. Eclipse already has extensive cvs functionality. Subclipse acts as a backend for this functionality and that means you get a lot of nice features. I was also pleasantly surprised with how well subclipse performs. Overall I [...]
Also tagged java, versionmanagementFor the zillionth time I decided to spend some time trying to get subclipse (http://subclipse.tigris.org/) to play nice with our svn+ssh repository at work. For those scratching their heads: eclipse is a popular java development ide; subversion is a version management system and subclipse is a subversion backend for eclipse’s team synchronization functionality. Until [...]
Also tagged java, subversion, versionmanagementAnamorphic aspect ratio calculator. I sometimes play movies from my PC to my widescreen TV. Unfortunately the tvout of my Geforce 4 card does not support widescreen. In other words, it sends a signal with a 4:3 aspect
ratio to my tv. Luckily my tv can stretch the image to 16×9. Normally this would result in [...]
