Learning By Doing - java tag

Announcing: Sonatype

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:06:00 GMT

I'm excited to announce my role in a new company that's aiming to help Maven users in the enterprise. The company is Sonatype. Read on for more.

Rise of the Build Chimp: Maven and Programming Content Separated

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:57:00 GMT

I'm designating this blog for personal stuff that really shouldn't appear on JavaBlogs, etc. In fact, I'm really interested in keeping these aspects of my life (programming and everything else) separate.

Movin' on Down the Road...

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:19:38 GMT

Well, it's been official for some time, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. I left Mergere, Inc. at the beginning of February. In the end, I found that my concept of a business that centered its existence on open source was quite different from theirs. Aside from that, I felt that I was treading dangerously close to being put in a position where I'd have to compromise my own personal credibility and integrity on behalf of the company. Finally, I didn't really feel that Mergere's approach to the Maven community was a healthy one...and this is a community which means a great deal to me. So, I've taken some time to regain my sense of pride in the work that I do, and re-explore the open source side of the Maven community. I'm finally back to the point where I enjoy coding again. I'm not quite ready to dive into coffee-shop ownership yet, so I'm going to be easing back into the life of a software engineer. Oh, I also spent a bit of time turning some perfectly good, green coffee beans to this dingy brown ...

NetBeans 5.5-beta painfully close to being useful

Tue, 30 May 2006 15:57:11 GMT

I've spent the past week or so checking out NetBeans 5.5 beta. It's got an incredibly well-integrated Maven plugin that makes life really easy, and I find that its interface is really intuitive and responsive. In short, it's a tool I'd really love to use. Unfortunately for me, I work on several development teams, and consistent code formatting really is critical, to help ensure SVN diffs are readable. This is one place where it seems that NetBeans is sorely lacking. I poked and prodded for hours, but have been unable to configure anything more than indentation level for wrapped lines. No way to specify where I want wrapped method arguments to go (aligned with the start of the arguments on the previous line, thank you very much). No way to tell it where I want throws and extends clauses to go. I even did some searching around via Google for third-party plugins that might make this possible, but the results are disappointing. After using NetBeans for a couple of days, I'm very motivated to use it, but this ...