As I hinted at the other day, we have been secretly working on some killer products, and we are now ready to release them.
If you are into XP, then you really need to be into XP… if you know what I mean. That is why I’m so excited about our new PairOn product. Love the one you’re with baby, love the one you’re with.
But of all our new product line-up, it is The Commentator that I love. If only we had this tool while creating The Commentator, we could have saved so much time!
So FishEye finally goes 1.0, and I’m all full of heady yay-for-going-one-dot-zero-ness.
Some people have commented that FishEye 1.0 has been a long time coming, but the secret is that we have also been working on a killer tool that will revolutionize the way you write code. And if you are into XP, then we have got some sweet, sweet gear for you too.
I can’t comment much more at the moment (shhh… secret squirrel), but look forward to some big announcements from us in the next few days.
If you are at SDWest drop by and visit the Cenqua boys in booth 419. Any builder’s crack is guaranteed to be well covered. (No relation to the scam with the same number *wink*)
Did I mention in passing that we took JAG out to dinner on Monday? If you haven’t met James, I can tell you that he fits the definition of a “good bloke” perfectly. Well, some combination of a good bloke and an uber-nerd: loves his food, can knock back a beer, and his resume alone could hold up his half of any nerdy conversation.
Gosling on Stallman:
Oh, I think he is a nutcase.
Just heard on the grapevine that they are going to ship a special “Java enabled” plot-line as one of the extras on the Star Wars Episode III DVD. Trailer attached.
For over a thousand generations the casting knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the old JDK. Before the dark times. Before the Tiger!
While I’m in bile-laden mood (see previous entry), here are two things I think were horribly mis-designed in the Java I/O API.
A friend (fiend?) pointed out that BEA’s new Weblogic 9.0 (alias “Diablo”) has a new mascot/logo.
OMGWTF!
How can a $1B Company produce such a horrible mascot; did they outsource their marketing department to a kindergarten? And “It runs like the Devil” is the slogan!? The BEA marketing department sat down, pooled their collective wit and creativity, and came up with… It runs like the Devil?!
And what’s with the jaundiced, fat-necked imp taking a wizz? Maybe in the fiery hell-hole it calls home light diffracts according to different rules, but in this plane of existance your shadow is meant to at least resemble the projection of your silhouette onto the ground. Can anyone say “MS Paint”?
This may all sound a bit harsh, and I’m not Picasso myself, but it is quite easy to find people that know how to knock up a good logo. Hell, even a cash-poor Open Source project can come up with good logos.
BPH put me onto this gem:
firefox feature of the day: in the fisheye “file search” box, right-click and select Add keyword for this search…. Add a keyword likecvs– now you can launch a fisheye quick search by typingcvs foo.javainto the address bar
That is an awesome feature (just typing cvs build.xml now
takes me exactly to the file I’m looking for). And putting that option in the
context menu for the text input box is quite intuitive.
You’ve been coding in Java too long when you completely forget that C doesn’t have labelled breaks.
