http://www.coconut-palm-software.com/the_new_visual_editor/ 2010-06-25T22:56:55-04:00 http://www.coconut-palm-software.com/the_new_visual_editor/ http://www.coconut-palm-software.com/the_new_visual_editor/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-06-24T17:46:09-04:00 djo http://www.coconut-palm-software.com/the_new_visual_editor/doku.php?id=blog:congratulations_to_eclipse_committers&rev=1277415969&do=diff Eclipse Helios is here: Done by 39 project teams, 490 committers, creating/managing more than 33 million lines of code. Congratulations to everyone whose code is in this release and to everyone who helped manage this thing out the door! On time. Again. text/html 2010-04-15T12:57:49-04:00 djo http://www.coconut-palm-software.com/the_new_visual_editor/doku.php?id=blog:e4_sdk_available_-_early_adopter_testers_needed&rev=1271350669&do=diff An exciting milestone in the E4 project passed yesterday when John Arthorne posted the following to the E4-dev mailing list: " I have spent the last day or so self-hosting full time using Eclipse 4.0 SDK builds. While there are lots of bugs and errors in the log, I have encountered no impediment that prevented my ability to get work accomplished using these builds as my regular IDE. I strongly encourage the rest of the team, and any bleeding edge adopters in the community, to try use Eclipse … text/html 2010-02-05T22:23:34-04:00 djo http://www.coconut-palm-software.com/the_new_visual_editor/doku.php?id=blog:e4_a_first_look&rev=1265426614&do=diff I've finally got some cycles to catch up on E4 a bit. The first thing I notice is that in E4, you wind up with a lot of code that looks something like this: (from <http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipseE4/article.html>) public class View1 { @Inject public View1(Composite parent) { Label label = new Label(parent, SWT.NONE); label.setText("E4 is new"); Text text = new Text(parent, SWT.NONE); text.setText("and different"); } } text/html 2009-11-27T18:29:57-04:00 djo http://www.coconut-palm-software.com/the_new_visual_editor/doku.php?id=blog:mylyn_makes_code_presentations_clearer&rev=1259364597&do=diff Last week I gave a presentation on refactoring regular Java code toward a Scala DSL to the Chicago Area Scala Enthusiasts (CASE). Along the way, I discovered a really cool way to use the Eclipse Mylyn tool to solve a perennial presenter's problem: how to smoothly switch between various code examples during the presentation. text/html 2009-11-24T20:34:01-04:00 djo http://www.coconut-palm-software.com/the_new_visual_editor/doku.php?id=blog:refactoring_to_dsls_slides_posted&rev=1259112841&do=diff Slides for last week's Scala meetup presentation in Chicago are posted on SlideShare: <http://www.slideshare.net/dvorme/refactoring-to-scala-dsls-and-liftoff-2009-recap> The topic was “Refactoring to DSLs (for beginners)” and “Scala LiftOff 2009 Recap”. text/html 2009-11-14T21:23:32-04:00 djo http://www.coconut-palm-software.com/the_new_visual_editor/doku.php?id=blog:speaking_at_chitown_scala_meeting&rev=1258251812&do=diff I'll be speaking at the Chicago Area Scala Enthusiasts (CASE) meeting this coming Thursday. We'll cover the following: * News from the Scala LiftOff East in Reston Virginia two weeks ago * I'll talk about using DSLs written in Scala to improve Java projects text/html 2009-08-28T16:54:11-04:00 djo http://www.coconut-palm-software.com/the_new_visual_editor/doku.php?id=blog:agile-_stress_testing_a_release_process&rev=1251492851&do=diff Sometimes you get on an airplane--or into a release process, and partway through the flight, something exciting happens. You never want this to happen, but sometimes it happens anyway. And it becomes an opportunity to find out just how resilient your processes are. text/html 2009-06-08T10:08:30-04:00 djo http://www.coconut-palm-software.com/the_new_visual_editor/doku.php?id=blog:write_uis_more_easily_with_fp&rev=1244470110&do=diff At EclipseCon, I had some amazing conversations with various people about the potential to use EMF and modelling technologies to raise the abstraction level, and therefore programmer productivity, when creating user interfaces. Since then, I've realized that XScalaWT can do all this already, for free, as long as you favor convention over configuration in your code...