Waw, I already got into a second blog today!

The most stryking experience behind this is that publishing gets to have this boomerang effect: "Writing a blog is generating more links and hooks into new stuff by email then ever before."

Just some dots on i's and crosses through t's:

• Didn't mean to bash, only point I was trying to make was about "the out-of-the-box-experience"... it's the start-working experience before start-reading that is bugging me the most. So on my balance: "Eclipse requires too much reading to get me working."
• I don't think I said I disliked 'perspectives'. However: precisely as with calling the menu-item to CVS: "Team",  I had some bad vibes around the 'attitude' of eclipse in wanting to name/invent things rather then just (let me) DO stuff. Again, it mostly means more reading.  See I wouldn't know if IDEA has great help, cause I never have needed it. The Eclipse help by the way is very complete.... It must be my poetic side to like it *shorter* :-S
• One of my favourite S-und-N employees mentioned that sunBow might be a better xml-editor plugin then my current pick: xmlbuddy (latter doesn't have line numbers? the former I still need to check)
• I missed out in my previous posting on the free-open discussion... rather then free, I definitely like the Eclipse as an "open" alternative to IDEA.
• Although the free thing was handy yesterday-evening: parachuted between the SAX-hungry students in a computer-teaching-room without even a JDK (and I must not forget about the non-markers) this Eclipse thing prooved a real McGuiver utensil to be waring on me.
• Coming from jEdit the completion must be really something, uhuh. However I cannot agree with the statement that we've seen this before in the MS-IDE's.  Really, I think MS is losing the edge on IDE's, just to mention a few things I didn't see over in MS stuff before:
• the whole refactoring support (thx to the XP movement and thought-train),
• the source-generation stuff (
• for required implementations of interfaces,
• for delegates,
• for try-catch blocks
• ...)
• the openness to build-like-a-snap-within-IDE but keep on build-without-IDE via ant integration,
• and best of all (in IDEA) not only the MS-like intelliSense (completion) but smartSense (narrow down the possible completions to the ones that fit in at that place regarding return types etc etc)
• Though giving the thought some more food... eclipse remains a very IBM thing if you ask me. (not only the name). So maybe building productivity stuff really requires a more rigid organization then what the common OSS community has to offer?
• Apart from being very thoughtful, Tom's last remark was a great way to sneak in another link to Cocoon

3:33:11 PM    

Why Cocoon sitemap, why ReST-like, why URI-design?  Was drinking some Speciale Hoegaarden with Johan Peeters after the SAX course... He has some interesting experience with SOAP on small devices, made me think...

Not in the least about making this blog-memory for myself. URI's matter according to:

• Paul Prescod: http://www.prescod.net/rest/importance_of_uris.html
• Jakob Nielsen: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990321.html
• Tim Berners-Lee: http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html

Most note-worthy was Jo's vision that there is no functional comparison between SOAP and ReST.

It sounded as peace-making as the Sam Ruby view.

2:15:57 PM    

Getting there...

• yesterday the stage was removed from the hall (yes, it's that high up for painting) which finally reveals the total effect of the new light and color there... we keep on telling each other how well we've choosen.
• this morning the bed-rooms have been ofiicially declared finished, focussing on the lower parts now, one more room to paint, loads of small finishing up though and then the big final cleanup befor the great move-in
• we have a date by the way: mark your callenders on 12/12 (if you still have a suitable back that is (uhuh))
• this evening the kitchen-experiment (swapped, reinvented and re-applied all colors both on walls and furniture...) will come to a final state, meaning all pieces of the puzzle get assembled again, and we finally get to witness the consequences of all our decisions... if it works out we'll have it *redone* completely based on the exisiting stuff at a very economic price...

Probably no-one is interested anyhow, but at least I want to check out how to do it, so here is a promise: "I'll get some mansion-pictures up here".  Hopefully it gets to be some publicly accepted excuse for not being active at Forrest.

11:40:28 AM    

So waddayaknownow. I already made into one of the web's most popular blogs, and I only just started :-S

I know this guy from somewhere. Maybe mentioning him here is the ultimate motivation for him to not fade away within a week or two. What do people think about the skin, anyhow? [Outer Log Thought Web]

Thx for the extra motivation :-P

11:23:43 AM