Computer Floss » Java http://computerfloss.com Delightful digital distractions in free/libre/open source software Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:27:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.1 Which languages should you be familiar with for a career in web programming? /2012/09/which-languages-should-you-be-familiar-with-for-a-career-in-web-programming/ /2012/09/which-languages-should-you-be-familiar-with-for-a-career-in-web-programming/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:04:12 +0000 /?p=1215 While doing some research for my latest teaching job, I had reason to find out which are the most widely-used server-side languages used for web programming. The information provided by what seems to be the best source (although there are hardly many of them) gave some surprising results. I knew that PHP was popular, but […]

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More trainings available via Mixin /2012/02/more-trainings-available-via-mixin/ /2012/02/more-trainings-available-via-mixin/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:11:45 +0000 /?p=1121 I was recently added to the staff of trainers at Mixin, a German-based training company run by Dr. Björn Kesper. My entry into the company means they now offer Java and Eclipse trainings in addition to a whole host of others, including C#, .NET, SQL Server, HTML, CSS and whole lot more. Follow the link […]

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Eclipse trainings available /2012/01/eclipse-trainings-available/ /2012/01/eclipse-trainings-available/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:10:14 +0000 /blog/?p=1079 I delivered my first Eclipse training just before Christmas last year. I’m happy to say that the clients, just under a dozen programmers working for a large German corporation, have reported being “very satisfied” with my two-day seminar. I’m also happy to say I enjoyed it even more than I thought I would, probably due […]

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A little problem with the OSGi Version class /2011/11/a-little-problem-in-the-osgi-version-class/ /2011/11/a-little-problem-in-the-osgi-version-class/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:11:17 +0000 /blog/?p=1054 With the release of Indigo, Eclipse hackers have been exposed to a little change in the API of the org.osgi.framework.Version class. Specifically, a new method: compareTo(Version) has appeared. Prior to Eclipse 3.7, comparing two Version objects was done via the compareTo(Object) method. This caused us in the Saros team to suffer a rather subtle bug. […]

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New release future-proofs Saros /2011/08/new-release-future-proofs-saros/ /2011/08/new-release-future-proofs-saros/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:14:05 +0000 /blog/?p=979 As my previous post suggested, the changes introduced by the recently released Java 7 and Eclipse 3.7 caused our project a couple of headaches. After some careful development and an extensive period of testing, we can confidently say that the latest release of Saros (version 11.7.29) works happily with the latest generations of Java and […]

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Solving XStream-related problem /2011/08/solving-xstream-related-problem/ /2011/08/solving-xstream-related-problem/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:19:41 +0000 /blog/?p=973 Just a quickie post to advertise a solution we on the Saros team found to a quite serious problem resulting from the release of Java 7. In testing, Saros was functioning fine with Java 6 users, but Java 7 users experienced problems that we only found through looking at the error log: ERROR 2011-07-29 16:43:38,942 […]

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Saros release 10.6.25 is available, and a new domain for Saros /2010/06/saros-release-10-6-25-is-available-and-a-new-domain-for-saros/ /2010/06/saros-release-10-6-25-is-available-and-a-new-domain-for-saros/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:43:56 +0000 http://computerfloss.wordpress.com/?p=515 Yup, it’s again time for Saros, the open source plug-in that lets you develop your Eclipse projects with your colleagues over the Internet. The Saros team made another regular release last week, mostly providing bugfixes and internal optimisations, although we did provide a rather nice, new feature for those users with big projects to share… […]

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