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November 29, 2002
Waw, I already got into a second blog today!
The most stryking experience behind this is that publishing gets to have this boomerang effect: "Writing a blog is generating more links and hooks into new stuff by email then ever before."
Just some dots on i's and crosses through t's:
- Didn't mean to bash, only point I was trying to make was about "the out-of-the-box-experience"... it's the start-working experience before start-reading that is bugging me the most. So on my balance: "Eclipse requires too much reading to get me working."
- I don't think I said I disliked 'perspectives'. However: precisely as with calling the menu-item to CVS: "Team", I had some bad vibes around the 'attitude' of eclipse in wanting to name/invent things rather then just (let me) DO stuff. Again, it mostly means more reading. See I wouldn't know if IDEA has great help, cause I never have needed it. The Eclipse help by the way is very complete.... It must be my poetic side to like it *shorter* :-S
- One of my favourite S-und-N employees mentioned that sunBow might be a better xml-editor plugin then my current pick: xmlbuddy (latter doesn't have line numbers? the former I still need to check)
- I missed out in my previous posting on the free-open discussion... rather then free, I definitely like the Eclipse as an "open" alternative to IDEA.
- Although the free thing was handy yesterday-evening: parachuted between the SAX-hungry students in a computer-teaching-room without even a JDK (and I must not forget about the non-markers) this Eclipse thing prooved a real McGuiver utensil to be waring on me.
- Coming from jEdit the completion must be really something, uhuh. However I cannot agree with the statement that we've seen this before in the MS-IDE's. Really, I think MS is losing the edge on IDE's, just to mention a few things I didn't see over in MS stuff before:
- the whole refactoring support (thx to the XP movement and thought-train),
- the source-generation stuff (
- for required implementations of interfaces,
- for delegates,
- for try-catch blocks
- ...)
- the openness to build-like-a-snap-within-IDE but keep on build-without-IDE via ant integration,
- and best of all (in IDEA) not only the MS-like intelliSense (completion) but smartSense (narrow down the possible completions to the ones that fit in at that place regarding return types etc etc)
- Though giving the thought some more food... eclipse remains a very IBM thing if you ask me. (not only the name). So maybe building productivity stuff really requires a more rigid organization then what the common OSS community has to offer?
- Apart from being very thoughtful, Tom's last remark was a great way to sneak in another link to Cocoon
Waw, I already got into a second blog today!
The most stryking experience behind this is that publishing gets to have this boomerang effect: "Writing a blog is generating more links and hooks into new stuff by email then ever before."
Just some dots on i's and crosses through t's:
- Didn't mean to bash, only point I was trying to make was about "the out-of-the-box-experience"... it's the start-working experience before start-reading that is bugging me the most. So on my balance: "Eclipse requires too much reading to get me working."
- I don't think I said I disliked 'perspectives'. However: precisely as with calling the menu-item to CVS: "Team", I had some bad vibes around the 'attitude' of eclipse in wanting to name/invent things rather then just (let me) DO stuff. Again, it mostly means more reading. See I wouldn't know if IDEA has great help, cause I never have needed it. The Eclipse help by the way is very complete.... It must be my poetic side to like it *shorter* :-S
- One of my favourite S-und-N employees mentioned that sunBow might be a better xml-editor plugin then my current pick: xmlbuddy (latter doesn't have line numbers? the former I still need to check)
- I missed out in my previous posting on the free-open discussion... rather then free, I definitely like the Eclipse as an "open" alternative to IDEA.
- Although the free thing was handy yesterday-evening: parachuted between the SAX-hungry students in a computer-teaching-room without even a JDK (and I must not forget about the non-markers) this Eclipse thing prooved a real McGuiver utensil to be waring on me.
- Coming from jEdit the completion must be really something, uhuh. However I cannot agree with the statement that we've seen this before in the MS-IDE's. Really, I think MS is losing the edge on IDE's, just to mention a few things I didn't see over in MS stuff before:
- the whole refactoring support (thx to the XP movement and thought-train),
- the source-generation stuff (
- for required implementations of interfaces,
- for delegates,
- for try-catch blocks
- ...)
- the openness to build-like-a-snap-within-IDE but keep on build-without-IDE via ant integration,
- and best of all (in IDEA) not only the MS-like intelliSense (completion) but smartSense (narrow down the possible completions to the ones that fit in at that place regarding return types etc etc)
- Though giving the thought some more food... eclipse remains a very IBM thing if you ask me. (not only the name). So maybe building productivity stuff really requires a more rigid organization then what the common OSS community has to offer?
- Apart from being very thoughtful, Tom's last remark was a great way to sneak in another link to Cocoon
Why Cocoon sitemap, why ReST-like, why URI-design? Was drinking some Speciale Hoegaarden with Johan Peeters after the SAX course... He has some interesting experience with SOAP on small devices, made me think...
Not in the least about making this blog-memory for myself. URI's matter according to:
- Paul Prescod: http://www.prescod.net/rest/importance_of_uris.html
- Jakob Nielsen: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990321.html
- Tim Berners-Lee: http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
Most note-worthy was Jo's vision that there is no functional comparison between SOAP and ReST.
It sounded as peace-making as the Sam Ruby view.
# Posted by mpo at 02:15 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)Why Cocoon sitemap, why ReST-like, why URI-design? Was drinking some Speciale Hoegaarden with Johan Peeters after the SAX course... He has some interesting experience with SOAP on small devices, made me think...
Not in the least about making this blog-memory for myself. URI's matter according to:
- Paul Prescod: http://www.prescod.net/rest/importance_of_uris.html
- Jakob Nielsen: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990321.html
- Tim Berners-Lee: http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
Most note-worthy was Jo's vision that there is no functional comparison between SOAP and ReST.
It sounded as peace-making as the Sam Ruby view.
# Posted by mpo at 02:15 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)Getting there...
- yesterday the stage was removed from the hall (yes, it's that high up for painting) which finally reveals the total effect of the new light and color there... we keep on telling each other how well we've choosen.
- this morning the bed-rooms have been ofiicially declared finished, focussing on the lower parts now, one more room to paint, loads of small finishing up though and then the big final cleanup befor the great move-in
- we have a date by the way: mark your callenders on 12/12 (if you still have a suitable back that is (uhuh))
- this evening the kitchen-experiment (swapped, reinvented and re-applied all colors both on walls and furniture...) will come to a final state, meaning all pieces of the puzzle get assembled again, and we finally get to witness the consequences of all our decisions... if it works out we'll have it *redone* completely based on the exisiting stuff at a very economic price...
Probably no-one is interested anyhow, but at least I want to check out how to do it, so here is a promise: "I'll get some mansion-pictures up here". Hopefully it gets to be some publicly accepted excuse for not being active at Forrest.
# Posted by mpo at 11:40 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)So waddayaknownow. I already made into one of the web's most popular blogs, and I only just started :-S
I know this guy from somewhere. Maybe mentioning him here is the ultimate motivation for him to not fade away within a week or two. What do people think about the skin, anyhow? [Outer Log Thought Web]
Thx for the extra motivation :-P
# Posted by mpo at 11:23 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
November 28, 2002
Sigh... adding colors to it is kinda both fun and boringly time-consuming. Hope you all like it now.
# Posted by mpo at 12:12 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
November 27, 2002
Well I just don't know about this eclipse thing. Have been struggling now for some days and it still hasn't convinced me to swap away from IDEA. I recently saw dear Erich (Gamma) in Antwerp showcase features I've known about in IDEA for (I don't remember since when) with a very anoying *giggle* in between. Since you never get a second chance to make a first impression, here is mine:
- The features that made good ol' Erich go: "Oh my! Look at this..." (read: IDEA-like productivity enhancements) are only availlable in the 2.1 release (so go for the M3 at this time)
- shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts, ... why is eclipse doing us short in those?
- I fail to see why there is no XML editor (at least highlighting, hopefully some smart completion) in there (have to check the available plug-in list probably?)
- eclipse has this attitude of wanting me to think differently about things: why do I need to think about 'perspectives' it hasn't been in my vocabulary before, and I don't understand why an IDE should learn me new words. Would be nicer if it just did things, rather then 'talk about it'.
- Haven't found the CVS stuff which is said to be great... first impression is: it is hard to find back :-)
- ant integration is better in the help then in my personal experience. Hope I'll get the ${project_loc} to work to be able to re-use the 'external tool' setup across projects. Again the IDEA intergration (looks like the jedit one) was more natural (even the ant-specific classpath there)
- Clicking a build.xml file in the navigator made my screen flicker for 10 minutes between eclipse, internet explorer (his *xml editor* of choice apparently) and some "File Download" dialog... Great news: it just stops after that time :-)
- closed projects remain there... something I need to get aquited to. (reopen last projects in the IDEA menu seemed so much more natural)
Hopefully I'm indulging it enough to get to find the things that are better done in eclipse then in IDEA.
In every case I talked myself into looking at it for a customer that has some people to be trained in Java. So let's bite through this for some longer. I found the use of IDEA in previous courses a real snap with a plus on 'educational advantage' through the self-explaining behaviour... The OSS believer in me would definitelly like a free alternative to the IDEA.
In every case the name 'eclipse' is well chosen, for it will probably put the 'sun' in the shadow. (Netbeans is out of my shortlist for sure)
# Posted by mpo at 01:29 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)My favourite Sun Employee (harold.ogle@SUN.COM) is sending me loads of mails again. Some of the ones actually resulted in a mental note:
- [final] JSR38 : Application Installation API Specification (might be something to do for our xreporter)
- [proposal] JSR198 : A Standard Extension API for Integrated Development Environments (makes me wonder how it will (ever) fit in to the SWT move at eclipse)
- [proposal] JSR199 : JavaTM Compiler API (makes me hope that runtime compilation will become more of a commodity)
(If you want Harold to mail you too about these, just follow the instructions at: http://jcp.org/en/participation/mail)
# Posted by mpo at 12:53 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)I really can't state that this blogging has been taking an awful swift and voluminous start. The good news however is that the "House" (aka The mansion) is getting into it's final states of preparation before moving in... We'll be happy movers soon.
# Posted by mpo at 12:07 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
November 20, 2002
The running joke over here is about how it could possibly be that an opinioned person like me is not maintaining a web log. So here goes. 30 days of free trial should be enough to see if I really succeed in maintaining this. # Posted by mpo at 02:26 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
