I first came into contact with stackoverflow like many of you have by finding their posts in google searches when you need a quick programming answer. I was a little wary of the site because I thought it might be another roseindia type site. When I looked a little deeper I saw that unlike sites like experts-exchange, this site was a free community driven “question and answer” site. In addition, you can join and get badges for achieving various milestones on the site. Finally, a lot of answers are really, really good, like programming mentorship good. The Q&A’s cover the whole spectrum of programming. From specific language questions to general career questions, stackoverflow has it all. Anyway, I love participating, earning badges and answering questions. So basically stackoverflow is kinda like a foursquare except you actually do something besides show up for a badge.
I love the fact that in the past 2 years, Netbeans have been the “most improved IDE” in the dwindling Java IDE market. Having said that, it’s also a minor annoyance to keep downlaoding the next stable release constantly. It seems like there is a new “release” every 10 days. I barely had a chance to take the wrapper off of 6.5 and now I see 6.5.1 is available. Jeeze. I’ll give them credit for having the sexiest splash startup though.
From the man ( Guillaume Laforge) himself:
As I said on my blog, and as is said on the FAQ, the license of Groovy
will stay Apache 2.
No worries to have there.To make a parallel, it’s not because SpringSource acquired Covalent
(the main Tomcat committers) that they made Tomcat change its license.
Same goes with Groovy: Groovy will stick to ASL 2.
… with the fakers , the wannabe players, the non-shot callers and the never-will-be ballers. Mofos talking about the the end of Java need to sit they butt down and just listen. Java is not the best programming language out here but it’s still better than yours. I know I been away for way too long and nobody except the Java Posse, no one seems to be holding up the f**king J banner. Well I’m back now. Haters, weep.
GJ
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ApacheCon was in Atlanta last week, so you know I had to crash the party. Got to meet Struts developers that I’ve only conversed with on the IRC, like Don Brown (mrdon) and Wendy Smoak. Great conversations. Sorry you missed it.
Quietly, Shale seeks merger with MyFaces
The JSF framework, Shale created by Tomcat and Struts founding father, Craig McClanahan will begin merging assets of the project into the Apache Myfaces project. It was once considered to be the natural (or unatural depending on what side of the JSF divide you were on) successor to to the venerable Struts Web Application Framework. After some controversy on the future of Struts 2.0 (see Struts in Flux) it became its own top level Apache project. Now, with some of the hype fading from JSF and competition from the hot new JSF/EJB3 framework, Jboss Seam, activity on the Shale project has dropped dramatically. Well, I’m wishing everyone good luck on the merger and hoping that we see some great things coming out of MyFaces in the future.
Laterz
GJ
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
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 Selena) is missing some of the 6.0 plugins that I really need (like SoapUI). 7.0 is a bigger leap forward in features than 5.x to 6.x was. So if you held off on getting 6, you might want to take a look at 7. On the Netbeans side, I’ve been using Netbeans 6.0M10 and I can finally stop b**tching about buggy milestones. Rather than piling on the latest gadgets, this release was all about improving the editor. They seemed to have taken a lot of hints from the way intelliJ IDEA editors work. The refactoring menu and some of the keyboard intentions are now very similar to IDEA. Hell, it’s no secret that Netbeans sees IDEA as the model for editing and refactoring. It’s been said often enough on the Java Posse. I wonder how the Ietbrains INtelliJ team feels about that? IDEA is still the best IDE for code writing but Netbeans 6.0 M10 shows that the gap is closing. Netbeans has always seemed to be the reference implementation of JEE 5 tooling in my opnion. Since they are supported by Sun directly, they get all the hot features first. So as I play with my first Jboss Seam apps, it’s Netbeans that I turn to. So for now I keep both IDEs open on different virtual desktops.
Laterz
GJ
