Went with my wife yesterday to see Master & Commander at Hollywood Multiplex, the only cinema multiplex in Bucharest (that is, until June 2004 when they'll finish the one that they're building just 500m away from where I live, which supposedly is a positive thing). It's a great movie, less haunted by the usual clichés [...]
Am I the only one thinking that the new Eclipse workbench look is plain ugly ? Ok for floating toolbars, palette and slimmer sash, but what is with all these rounded corners and smooth slopes ? I want a functional GUI, not a cluttered toy…
While I think that Codehaus is an exceptional provider of open-source software (some of the projects hosted there are really shining), I'm a little horrified by all their Maven-generated sites. It's not because I'm ignorant to Maven usefulness, but BECAUSE I've worked extensively with Maven since the beta7 days (August 2002, if i remember well [...]
Last, week I got to visit Web Services & XML Integration Forum in Paris. It was an interesting day and I’ll probably come back with some more info, but for now I’ll just talk about what really impressed me. There was a nice triagle of expo booths somewhere in the ‘North-East’ area of the Forum, [...]
In the series of “not so wellknown but useful plugins for Eclipse”, I'd like to introduce to you some code comprehension tools (well, no Juliet for Eclipse yet, but still impressive):
JQuery, another project from UBC, Computer science department (are these guys insanely cool, or what ?). Now, only if I could grok their query notation, [...]