Posts Tagged ‘java’

I’m looking to run some un-verified scripts (written in a yet-to-be-determined language, but needs to be Java-based, so JRuby, Groovy, Jython, BeanShell, etc are all candidates). I want these scripts to be able to do some things and restricted from doing other things.
Normally, I’d just go use Java’s SecurityManager and be done with it. That’s [...]

Here is a running list of all the bugs I’ve come across with IntelliJ IDEA 8 so far. Some of these may actually be thoughtful changes from the behavior in version 7, but they are annoying so I’m calling them bugs

Can no longer autocomplete lowercase for enums. For example, typing “TimeUnit.sec” [...]

One of the little touches I added to Able, which came from code originally in BrowserMob, was a nice little JDK logging formatter. It is designed to work with modern IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA being my personal favorite) and their ability to understand shorthand notation for classes.
As I was building BrowserMob, I was getting irritated by [...]

Very smart move by both the Merb and Rails project leaders:

Big news in the world of Ruby web frameworks: Merb and Rails will be merged.[From InfoQ: Merb Will Be Merged Into Rails 3.0 ]

I’ve been telling people for a while that Ruby has been following the Java path at an accelerated pace. Ruby [...]

Reposting Matt’s blog entry:

If you live in Portland, Oregon – or just happen to be in town – you might want to join us for some beers and tech talk tomorrow (Monday) night. Patrick Lightbody, Howard Lewis Ship and Matt Raible will be meeting around 6:30PM at the Rogue Distillery & Public House. [...]

Tonight I will be speaking at the Portland Java User’s Group in downtown Portland:

Patrick will present his work on a new open source initiative named Able. Able is a combination of a library and quickstart template that aims to tightly integrate several modern Java frameworks: Hibernate (persistence), Stripes (web framework), Guice (core container), [...]