Last night, I came across this question on StackOverflow, essentially asking how you can be a zero-bug programmer. Many of the responses can be boiled down to “Don’t write any code.”, which is pretty much how I’d respond to that question. If you continue to throw ever-increasing amounts of time and money at a software [...]
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Visual Studio 2010 – A bunch of code completion/navigation features I miss from Eclipse
Posted by Spencer Uresk on January 24, 2011
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For those of you who don’t know me, I’m a long-time Java developer (although I’ve spent plenty of time playing around with other languages and platforms). I’m also a big believer in developer tools – I create developer tools as part of my day job, and take advantage of tools as part of all the [...]
What is Oracle’s mobile strategy for Java?
Posted by Spencer Uresk on November 16, 2010
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It has been a tumultuous time for Java – the transition to Oracle ownership has been rocky, there has been JCP drama, the language is falling behind feature-wise, and it’s future on a increasingly important platform (OS X) was briefly looking bleak. Oracle’s stewardship over Java has been the center of a lot of controversy [...]
Analysis of Apple’s Java bombshell
Posted by Spencer Uresk on October 25, 2010
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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
Posted by Spencer Uresk on October 2, 2010
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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 [...]