28. December, 2002 - local news, software
- Coffman Union reaches its final stages and is due to reopen January 22, late and over budget. It'll be interesting to see how it came out. I spent an awful lot of my freshman year at the U in Coffman.
- Reckless Eyeballin' profiles Ron Edwards, a power in (or thorn in the side of) Minneapolis politics, and Busted talks about the upcoming federally-mandated mediation between the Minneapolis Police Department and the community.
- The union at the St. Paul Pioneer Press is getting Scrooged by Knight Ridder. The economy's tough, they're fighting a huge corporation, and their choices are to give in on a contract, or go out on strike. I've been reading The Paper ISBN:0394508777 over the past few months, and the current PiPress sounds more and more like the (now dead) Herald-Tribune. Would that only the Strib was more like the New York Times.
- Why can't VisualStudio.NET do this? If you write code you may be aware of the recent trend of tool standardization. Once such prominent effort is Eclipse, a highly extensible multi-platform IDE that IBM open-sourced last year. It's written in Java, but doesn't feel like it thanks to its scriptable SWT widget set. Supported platforms include your standard Windows, Mac, Linux and a few more.
At present, it is targeted primarily towards Java developers, but that is changing quickly with 'perspectives' for many languages already available, including Dave's PHP. It offers some remarkable capabilities to help you write better code. Best of all, it's free, though you can expect savvy commercial tool vendors to market valuable pluggable componentry in the coming months. [reed]
- Deleting Code is a good thing. But I have clients who don't believe in it, even though they keep everything in version control. But I get tired of having to look at the evolutionary dead ends over and over. Some decent comments would be more useful.
- I think I'm just going to start writing all my code in Ook#. Looks like a heckuva programming language. [boing boing]
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Last updated on Sat, 28 Dec 2002 09:30:44.