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 [...]
Tag Archives: eclipse
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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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 [...]
IDEs are not about code generation
Posted by Spencer Uresk on September 11, 2010
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There’s been a lot of interesting topics on Twitter, the JavaPosse Google Group, and various blogs recently about the “complexity” of the Scala language and whether it will be the next Java. This isn’t meant to be a post ripping on Scala – I respect the hard work from the talented individuals it took to [...]
JDK 6 update 21 kind of breaks Eclipse on Windows
Posted by Spencer Uresk on July 15, 2010
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If you recently upgraded to JDK 6 update 21 on Windows and are noticing lots of Eclipse problems, I probably know why (and can show you how to fix it). First, some background. The HotSpot VM (Sun’s implementation) has a concept known as the Permanent Generation, or PermGen for short. Its main purpose is to [...]