Just read that IntelliJ IDEA 9 will be split into a Community Edition, and an Ultimate Edition. The Community Edition will be open sourced, and allows the Scala plugin. I’ve been writing Scala code for a few months now, and using IDEA in the office, and TextMate at home. I’m really hoping [...]
For the last few jobs I’ve had, Service Oriented Architecture has been a strong theme. Having services presenting REST apis that consume and produce XML has been the regular approach. When it comes to testing consumers of those services, I have found Python to be an extremely useful and convenient tool. It’s [...]
My wife is dyslexic and has long ago accepted that she can’t spell. She has given up on spell checkers, which due to her extraordinary inability to get even close to the right spelling have also long since given up on her. I thought it worthy of mention, that Google is her preferred [...]