Wayne Beaton's blog

    Eclipse Forum Europe 2007

    Monday, December 11, 2006 - 12:04 by Wayne Beaton
    Eclipse Forum Europe starts on April 23, 2007 at the Rhein-Main-Hallen in Wiesbaden, Germany. I really love this conference, so I’m going to be there. The call for papers ends on December 18th. Be sure to get your submission in. … Continue reading →

    Here it comes again

    Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 22:29 by Wayne Beaton
    A bunch of my friends and I get together on new year’s day for an annual tradition . This tradition involves using a chainsaw to cut a hole in the ice of the Rideau River (in beautiful, but somewhat chilly, Ottawa ), clearing out the ice and then taking turns...

    Mylar Two Weeks Later

    Wednesday, December 6, 2006 - 14:34 by Wayne Beaton
    I’ve been using Mylar for about two weeks and I’m still really impressed. I have been doing some Java development these past weeks, but most of my work has involved editing PHP files and triaging Eclipse Corner Articles bugzilla entries. I’ve been doing it all with Mylar. The first thing...

    Photran

    Friday, December 1, 2006 - 11:44 by Wayne Beaton
    It’s been almost two decades since I’ve written anything in FORTRAN . And to be honest, that something was a single program and I can’t quite remember what it was (I think it might have been an expert system I named “ Electric Monk “, but I can’t be certain)...

    Apache Harmony and Eclipse

    Monday, November 27, 2006 - 13:12 by Wayne Beaton
    For kicks last night, I decided to see how well Apache Harmony could run Eclipse. The answer is “pretty well”. The Eclipse platform itself runs very well. I edited a bunch of files, manipulated a bunch of resources, dabbled a bit with some properties and preferences, and just generally kicked...

    You must try Mylar

    Thursday, November 23, 2006 - 16:18 by Wayne Beaton
    There’s no point in being subtle. You must try Mylar . Do it now. Today. I have to admit that I’ve been meaning to look at Mylar for a long time, but haven’t gotten much further than the demos. I finally took the time to load it in and start...