People I know who use Eclipse ask me why I use IntelliJ IDEA, when Eclipse is really good and free. Well, it’s little gems like the following that put IDEA miles above anything and everything else.
Archive for 2004
Back from reef
# 2004-08-17 09:54:26 -0400 | General | No CommentsJust back from a two week holiday (”vacation”) in Port Douglas. There is nothing like a fortnight of swimming, sleeping, walks, naps and hazelnut gelato to re-charge the batteries. If you ever have the chance to visit the Great Barrier Reef, I highly recommend going for a snorkel/dive, it was awesome. I spent all day yesterday clearing my build-up of support [...]
Totally Gridbag
# 2004-07-13 09:21:03 -0400 | Java | 43 CommentsSo, I figured I’d make an animated weblog… thing.
Rolling on the floor
# 2004-07-07 21:29:28 -0400 | General | 3 CommentsSeeing today made me laugh-out-loud. But I didn’t start rolling on the floor until this happened:
Company name refactored
# 2004-07-06 19:47:03 -0400 | Java | 4 CommentsThe team decided we needed to spruce up our website a bit, and we didn’t stop refactoring ’till we ended up with a new company name.
[joke] Two ints and a Float are in a bar…
# 2004-06-23 12:11:44 -0400 | Java | 13 CommentsHadn’t heard this one before: Two ints and a Float are in a bar. They spot an attractive Double on her own. The first int walks up to her. “Hey, baby”, he says, “my VM or yours”. She slaps him and he walks back dejected. The second int walks over. “Hey, cute-stuff, can I cook your Beans for breakfast”. After [...]
ICFP2004 starts in a few hours
# 2004-06-04 23:40:34 -0400 | Java | No CommentsThe question is, will it be a compacting garbage collector…
Real garbage colletion, developer style
# 2004-06-01 10:59:39 -0400 | Java | 1 CommentThe question is, will it be a compacting garbage collector…
Re: The Pascal String Challenge
# 2004-05-03 15:46:16 -0400 | General | 1 CommentJoe issues a task, Blog within a Pascal string. Can we haiku too? Five, 7, then 5; Haiku has a storage scheme syllables in size. With a byte array, 255 is Pascal’s limit. And this page of poems Kills two birds with the one stone. The txt file is here.
Ergnosis: show us your bacon
# 2004-04-23 16:14:25 -0400 | Java | 2 CommentsEvery so often, Ergnosis sends a post to places where “language nerds” hang out (like comp.lang.functional, ll1, etc) advertising the fact that they have a few job vacancies for developers.
Ergnosis seems to be creating some sort of IDE or development system. They are going to “deliver the next paradigm of software tools” or some such.
Apparently they hit their 0.6 milestone last month. Zero-dot-six!?! Sounds like time for a beta to me. Show us the bacon!
