Category Archives: Technology

New upgrades for KOS-MOS…

I upgraded KOS-MOS‘ equipment today to combat some new threats that have arisen in IRC land recently. 216467 will be of particular interest to committers now that the CQ season has started. I also retrofitted her with some new communications … Continue reading

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There are always exceptions…

rcjsuen: If I’m writing an API method and it does nothing. Should I say “Subclasses should re-implement”? “Subclasses may re-implement”? re-implement? reimplement? njbartlett: rcjsuen: The Economist Style Guide suggests that you only need the hyphen to separate identical letters. Eg … Continue reading

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JDT/Text adds a new feature, you all know what that means…

Whenever JDT/Text adds a new feature, every other language editor usually buckle up their belts and try to model the same behaviour in their editors. This will probably be no different with the recent advent of them Java editor breadcrumbs … Continue reading

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Java team formed for Haiku…

According to a news post, a team has been formed to bring OpenJDK to the Haiku operating system! You can find the project proposal here. This is great news and I wish Bryan and his team the best of luck!

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What to do when a type is not marked as Serializable…

So I was trying to implement NUnit’s EvenListener interface so I could integrate NUnit into Emonic when I hit upon the error above. The runtime just didn’t want to consume my listener for some reasons. So I did what any … Continue reading

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API design presentation…

Markus and I was talking about some API stuff just now and he sent me a link to a video presentation by Josha Bloch on how to design a good API. The presentation is an hour long but it is … Continue reading

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ADT 0.3 does not run on 3.4M3, so don’t even try…

Creating the project is as simple as can be. An Eclipse plugin is available making Android development a snap. You’ll need to have Eclipse 3.3 (Europa) or higher installed, and you’ll need to install the Android Plugin for Eclipse. Once … Continue reading

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An old friend, the ‘Navigator’ view…

While I’m sure we all threw up the ‘Navigator’ view once in a while back in the pre-3.2 days of Eclipse, I can’t say that I’ve opened it up much anymore. With the working set support in the ‘Project Explorer’ … Continue reading

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Emonic 0.3 released…

The final version has officially gone out the doors! Take note that this doesn’t imply that the team has shifted into low gears at all. Dominik has actually already started working on improving the code completion (with images, for starters,) … Continue reading

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OSI approves Microsoft’s open source license submissions…

As you can see from this article, the OSI has approved the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) and the Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL). It’s a shame that we now have two more open source licenses out in the wild (as people … Continue reading

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