Blog Archive for evanx during August 2006
Preface
This article might be debunked over time at this permalink
on java.net CVS. Actually corrections have probably already been made
to that copy, during a post-publication review (or two), so maybe click through to there
rather than continue here.
Cos it's so much easier to right-click and commit a subdirectory from Netbeans,
than to edit weblogs using blogowarez. Not to mention...
Rolling your own Java
In Shai's
"Java5 language changes were a bad idea", he suggests just that.
A coupla of years ago, before i starting tooling up (starting with IntelliJ, then using Eclipse, and nowadays Netbeans), i used vi. You're right RMS, it's not a sin to use vi, it's a penance - in order to find salvation with Java IDEs.
So there were a few things i really wanted in the language...
The content of this article (and series) has been revised, please click here for the
"Gooey Beans"
contents page
for links to the revised article, its sequels, and other Gooey stories :)
Some background
See the prequel Event DTs.
Also see Alexander Potochkin's "Debugging Swing - is it really difficult?"
and "Debugging Swing, the summary #1"
for a discussion on...
Grid Bag Grease
introduced a Gbc.java convenience class, and a Sourcy sample app that used it. Here is
the formal introduction to that Quite Sourcy thing.
So I want my code samples in my blog to be highlighted. Because it's easier to read,
but more importantly, it just looks better! :) Netbeans' "Print to HTML"
produces an HTML file, complete with CSS styles. So i wrote this Quite...
Prequels: This Trip and Tick series kicked off with
Checking out a java.net project
and continued with
JooJ up your project page with a Web Start demo.
I dunno if it's just me, but the few times i've tried to setup a new java.net project,
that is to get my Netbeans project/source and the java.net CVS married and
checked in, i seem to struggle for hours. But no more! Today we gonna...
