Archive for the 'software' Category
Programming in Scala
Got the Programming in Scala eBook. I hope to get time and build an experimental Eclipse Plugin with it.
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Eclipse Maven Integration
Honestly, I was pretty unsure regarding Maven at all. “Why should I port my projects from Ant, where everything is plain, simple and predictable? Single point integration jars are connected to their dependent projects, shared ones are extracted to a Libraries project. Deployment is as easy as checkout and build…” - I convinced myself.
But soon [...]
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Why Eclipse Equinox P2 Update Manager is not good enough for me yet
As you all know in Eclipse 3.4 there is a new Update Manager (more correctly - Plug-in Manager) which is intended to be better.
The update managing side of it is an improvement indeed. But the first thing raised my alertness is there is no place to point where do I want my selected plug-ins to [...]
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Working with Eclipse on two displays
Several days ago I was given an additional monitor, and the question of “how to arrange Eclipse view on two displays” was raised. After several tests I made the conclusion that the best way is to stay with my default preferred arrangement, with single difference - to detach and move all the non-editor views to [...]
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Nice Diagram Editor - yWorks’ yEd
Today I felt need in simple diagram editor in order to draw a comprehensive flow-chart diagram.
Previously I widely used Dia one, but it was always to painful to achieve acceptable with no constant mistakes and overall creation always took too long.
In the past I also several times evaluated Enterprise Architect, Visio and SmartDraw, but they [...]
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Java Code Structure and Dependencies Analysis Tools for Eclipse
One of my first assignments at the new company (remember, I left Zend previous week), was analysing existing projects structure. Which means distribution of classes into packages, package dependencies, libraries usage etc.
The results, I would say, were far from being perfect, but I can bet, most of large (and especially proprietary) projects would look similar or even worse. But this is not what I was going to say.
What I am going to say, is for this purpose I evaluated several analysis tools and I want to share my opinion about them.
Here they are (in order of evaluation).
1. Eclipse Metrics(1) (CPL)
Pros: Runs fast, provides tangle detector.
Cons: Dependencies graph is not usable with large projects. No text output of dependencies is available.
2. Eclipse Metrics(2) (CPL)
Pros: no.
Cons: Does not analyze dependencies.
2. JDepend
Pros: Nice and simple UI, fast analysis.
Cons: Provides neither graph [...]
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Zend Studio for Eclipse Release & cetera
Dear diary,
I have 2 news for you today.
Today we successfully released Zend Studio for Eclipse. My contribution to it, beyond PDT commitments, is Sebastian Bergmann’s PHPUnit testing framework integration plug-in, File Network support, Organize Includes and other parts of Refactoring engine, Code Coverage browser… well, it seems that’s it. Maybe several additional, but minor [...]
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Zend Framework vs. CakePHP, Symfony, Seagull, WACT, Prado, TRAX, eZ and CodeIgniter
In contraversal with what it might seem, I won’t compare features of the mentioned projects. For that purpose you may just read this nice article by Dennis Pallett.
Instead, I will share you what I learned with help of [in]famous Ohloh project - the codebase, activity and participants dynamics comparison of the mentioned projects.
Well, I’ll not make any conclusions - just [...]
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Debug PHP and JavaScript simultaneously
Yesterday me and Roy had a brainstorm session on future Zend Neon (Commercial version of PDT) and ATF integration and “occidently” found a way of debugging of an URL with both Zend’s PHPand Mozilla’s JavaScript debuggers in one session.
Surprise! It’s possible with neither patching nor hacking. I’m not going to show the exact steps of [...]
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Version Upgrade
Today I found that the new version 7.10 of Kubuntu just released.
Since my only Linux machine is in the office and I’m at home today, I’ve started to upgrade the system via VNC. And now I’m wondering will it allow me also to finish with it.
Update: It’s funny, but it didn’t allow me [...]
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