Monthly Archives: October 2010

Analysis of Apple’s Java bombshell

I heard about Apple’s deprecation of Java just as I was headed to BlizzCon this week and have spent some time over the past few days chewing on Apple’s move, their motives, and the ramifications. The sky isn’t falling… yet. Java 6 is currently quite well-support on OS X. Java 7 isn’t slated to be [...]

Developing with Lift in Eclipse

A few weeks back, I wrote a blog entry lamenting the attitude toward IDEs in the Scala community. A few people told me that the tooling situation was better than I’d implied, so I thought I’d spend a bit of time looking at using Scala (and Lift specifically) in Eclipse. I think the situation is [...]