TextMate to IntelliJ IDEA Live Templates

I had one of those weird cross-over experiences last night when I came across a small note in a post about the history of Java’s origins. Ray Cromwell is quoted as saying:

I program in a language that I would actually call “JetBrains Java” since I find I must drop into Live Templates often to [...]

Business Wants Technology Decisions

“I just wish someone in IT could make the calls on technology.”

That was the statement from one of our product managers, having sat through a long testy meeting where technical directions got brought up and debated at length. Testy enough that our architect at one point stated:

“So I’m just a researcher, well then [...]

Delegating Little Things

I realized today as I was clicking through Dell configurations on workstation class machines with dual or quad core Xeons that I really needed to get my head out of the sand and delegate this. I’m not the world’s expert on all aspects of computer hardware other than I usually have a pretty good clue [...]

Silicon Valley Ruby Conference 2007

I’ve been looking for a nearby Ruby or Rails conference to attend for the last six months or so, and I finally spotted one this evening on Josh Susser’s blog. Turns out SD Forum is going to be running a weekend Ruby conference April 21st and 22nd. The details are still not all there including [...]

Head First Java 2nd Edition TDD

One of our senior developers is putting together a class mostly based on Head First Java, 2nd Edition. The class will reinforce the basic language concepts for several of our developers who feel they still don’t quite get the point of inheritance or how an inner class works.

The developer explained that he was writing [...]