Programming and politics

In case you missed the announcement from JetBrains yesterday , the popular IntelliJ IDEA has gone free and open source. Sort of. There is no...

This past week's BASE meeting was all about IDE support for Scala. You can read my notes , posted to the Scala tools mailing list. I was...

One of the worst kept secrets in the tech world was revealed on Wednesday night when Google announced Java support on the Google App Engine....

Today I received a serial number for the highly regarded IntelliJ. The license was courtesy of the San Fran JUG , as a thank you for speakin...

This week I have been speaking at EclipseWorld in Reston, VA. I have been talking about Ruby on Rails mostly, and a little session on iPhone...

October is going to be a busy month for me. Next weekend I will be at Adobe's FlashCamp . I will be there Friday night and Saturday, and...

Couldn't make it to Eclipse Day? You're in luck. Since it was at Google, it was recorded and is now on YouTube. Enjoy!

Congratulations to the Eclipse Foundation for releasing Ganymede today . As part of the festivities, Eclipse and Google collaborated on Ecli...

I will be speaking at EclipseDay next month at Google. I will be talking about how we use Eclipse at eBay . I am going to try to demo and s...

I have written a lot of articles for IBM over the last couple of years. Most recently I got a chance to write about "my day job" i...

A couple of pieces that I wrote on Rails appeared on IBM at the end of last year. I didn't even realize it until today when somebody ema...

There's been a lot of developers upset that Leopard does not include Java 6 . Does this make the Mac a poor choice of Java developers? N...

I have a new article up on developerWorks: Developing applications using the Eclipse C/C++ Development Toolkit . This is one does not use Ja...

I love the ideas behind the GWT command line tools. They remind me a lot of Ruby on Rails. They seem to have some surprising shortcomings th...

With all of the recent hoopla around Adobe's Apollo, I decided to give it a try. From what I've read, you should be able to develop ...

I've been doing some development on the Mac lately. The tool that I've been most interested in is Dashcode , but I've also been ...

I decided to go ahead and do Python versions of the programming assignments. I updated the ATM and Text Manipulation assignments to includ...

Everybody loves Eclipse, right? It's become ubiquitous , right? It's been my primary IDE for a couple of years now. Lately, I've...