Monthly Archives: January 2010

Sharing an IntelliJ project via VCS

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Kon

I found this post Sharing IntelliJ IDEA Project Files in Version Control via the twitter-sphere.  They talk of all the usual stuff like ignore the iws file, but they introduced a neat trick for project variables which I didn’t know … Continue reading →

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Netbeans JavaFX plugin experience – and what about IntelliJ Idea?

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Kon

Warning: Many of the following criticisms are superficial, but I wanted to document my experience of learning a new IDE.  I’ll come back to this post in a year to see what’s changed. I should also state, I’ve got nothing … Continue reading →

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Pair Programming and Programmer Psychology

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Kon

This is a great article in the IEEE Software journal looking at why pair programming does and doesn’t work and why it should or shouldn’t work. In fact the article doesn’t have all that much to do with pair programming … Continue reading →

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Multiple Inheritance in Java

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Kon

This is something that’s usually taught to first year Java students.  Though I had a small mental blank about how it was implemented. I knew that to get around the ‘limitation’*, you could specify a class with multiple interfaces, but … Continue reading →

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Inline Java In Perl

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Kon

A former perl guru colleague of mine showed me Inline::Java, a way to embed Java in your perl programs and call perl from your Java classes. The way it works is it invokes javac and creates some bytecode.  It then … Continue reading →

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Java Application Examples Blog

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Kon

Ok, so I went to uni, and in uni they are big about plagiarism.  Not big in the sense they promote it, but big in that if you do it, you may as well consider yourself chemically castrated with no … Continue reading →

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