Friday, May 31, 2002

Netbeans....It's your father's IDE after all...and he wants it back..... I played some more with NetBeans and although it's pretty all-encompassing it just doesn't feel right.  Feel is a subjective term and as I've mentioned before I'm a long time brief user.  Brief isn't just a bunch of key mappings that are easilly changed.  There's functionality in brief that just isn't covered in normal key mappings (CUA for example).  Putting brief emulation aside for now the other things that had an effect on where the overall sluggishness of it (though I'm sure if I un-installed some of the add-ons it might pick up) and the steep learning curve.  This IDE I'm sure does everything but write code FOR you but as I said....I just doesn't feel right to me.  So for now and until the promised 1.4 support arrives in IDEA I'm gonna stick with MultiEdit and command-line Ant. 2:52:33 PM    comment []

IDEA Supporting 1.4 Soon? Watch the Planes go round and round I'm still working my bugs out here.....so if you see broken images you can chalk that up to being new to RadioLand. Todd left me a comment saying: It was just announced on the Intellij EAP (Early Access Program) newsgroups that the next EAP release will *require* 1.4. Based on past history, the next EAP release will be available in a week or so.  Sounds promising as I really would like to play with it more.  Anyone know if they're going to include brief emulation? Here's a nice little fascinating time sucker.  Watch the planes go around and around...If you change the scale out to 96 miles it looks just a tad more chaotic then I'D ever want to know about. 12:47:59 PM    comment []

Various Ramblings Oh oh....looks like we're in a lot of trouble now.  Microsoft has patented  Ones and Zeros.  In what CEO Bill Gates called "an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors," the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday. Mike at [rebelutionary] was questioning my requirement of JDK 1.4 specifically because I had mentions that without the support of JDK 1.4 I wasn't going to be able to use IDEA.  He's right as I probably could replace all of the things I'm using in 1.4 with external support but that would seem a bit extreme to me.  I love the look and feel of IDEA (except for the lack of the brief keyboard emulation) but to re-write the required code just to be able to use an editor....Though if they where to add the brief support (and I don't mean just mapping the keyboard because that's just not enough) then I wouldn't let the JDK stop me.  I'm a long time brief user and you'd have to pry my editor from my long dead cold hands. What do I use in 1.4....well I like the regex support that's been added to the string object.  replaceAll was something that should have been added LONG ago.  Then there's the modifications to the net objects.  Seriously, once you start using this stuff you just can't stop...it'll make you into a Java-Maniac. <insert theme music here> Seriously though there's some good stuff in there.  I've been asked what projects I'm working on...well here you go:  I'm working on a content management system currently being used in various magazine web sites including Dr. Dobb's Journal, Byte, Software Development Magazine and some others.  1:05:25 AM    comment []