Archive for August, 2007

Java Video School: Netbeans.tv and Parleys.com

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Am I the only one that is excited about the launch of Netbeans.tv? I love the concept and I hope the idea catches on in the development community. Parleys.com has been putting out some excellent videos an podcasts for a while now, even with their non-catchy domain name.. Looks like the “video” web is finally […]

They turned my JSPWiki into a pr0n site

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Remember the days when Wikis were the next great open collaboration tool? They were supposed to shepherd in the long promised era of open collaborative knowledge sharing. Wikis around the Net loudly proclaimed “You can edit this page!” A wikis’ commumity would “police themselves”and the karmic goodness of the Open Collaboration would keep evil spammers […]

Jboss Seam 2.0: Wait for it

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

A few weeks ago, I decided to give Jboss Seam a spin to see if I could RAD myself an application for a Playstation 3 moonlighting challenge I was doing. I was relying on Seam’s “Sean-Gen” tool to knock this one out of the park for me. It didn’t. Buying the Seam book by Yuan, […]

Netbeans ups the ante with a Dilbert of it’s own

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Not to be outdone by IntelliJ IDEA with it’s very cool Dilbert plugin, Netbeans now has it’s own Dilbert strip plugin. I can not tell you how many times that little strip in IDEA has lightened my mood while as I am coding. That plugin has saved lives, kid.
Enjoy,
GJ

3 new plugins to make Selena (IDEA 7.0) popGhetto Java

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Like I was saying in my last post, the main reason that I had not made the full switch to IDEA 7.0 milestone was because of missing plugins that I use or will be using a lot in the future. Well I checked just now and I see 3 plugins that I’ve been looking for.

SoapUI […]

Double Up: Living with 2 IDEs

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

I wanted to choose between IDEA and Netbeans but I couldn’t. They both have great features that I need in my life right now. On the IntelliJ IDEA side, I’ve been bouncing back and forth between version 6 and the newest 7.0 milestone release. The only reason I haven’t completely switched is that 7.0 (codenamed […]

Cool Articles: Using Java to Crack Office 2007

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

InfoQ has been putting out some cool articles lately and this one slipped under my radar: Using Java to Crack Office 2007

“Without anything more complicated than the native
JDK itself-in other words, no third-party libraries are
necessary-a Java application can now read and write any Office 2007
document, because Office 2007 documents are now […]