The Individual opinion of the Author on the Java PDF Blog relating to the content.
When I was preparing my BoS2010 talk I did a lot of research and I found 2 very scary books. So with Halloween fast approaching, if you want to be scared read on… In The shallows , Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is actually changing the way that we think. What we do alters…
One of the highlights of Bos2010 for me was discovering Rob Walling. He was in the Lightning talks competition in 2009 where we both did a talk but I did not really take in what he said – his mind was on towels and I was totally focussed on kittens (and dinosaurs and asteroids). He…
After I finished my blog post I contacted one of the NetBeans developers (Geertjan Wielenga) who was very helpful. So I did some more investigations… This is the spacing problem which annoyed me so much – the code is perfect in Eclipse but indenting is all wrong in NetBeans. As you can see, the text…
For development I have access to 3 Java IDEs – Eclipse, IDEA and NetBeans, but for general development, I have tended to stick to IDEA. I first got into IDEA about version 5 and I stuck with it because I found it by far the most productive IDE for writing pure Java. However, my relationship has…
There is a very revealing article on the New York Times website about the last events of the last year and the future for Adobe. Whatever else, people will continue to produce content and with PDF, Flash and Photoshop, Adobe provides the key ingredients for many people. The challenge is to see how they respond…
