Archive for March, 2008

I’ve come across this interesting classification of developer types, by Frank Kelly.
It is a funny read… just try to assign a label to your workmates… and think which label they’ll apply to you .

Adapting with generics

Wayne Beaton has made some great articles about using adapters in Eclipse to reduce coupling.
In Adapting, the last post of the series, he shows some code to check if an object is or adapts to a given interface. This code has the problem that it needs to be repeated for every interface you need to [...]

Comming back

I’m just back from my easter break and catching up with all q4e-related mail and issues… there has been lots of work and contributions, which means a lot of work for us (the committers) but also means a healthy community.
Thanks to everyone who’s been hacking at Q for Eclipse this weekend and in the past.
You [...]

Developing web applications with maven and q4e is really, really easy… try this:

Update your q4e version from the development update site
Create a New project
Select the Maven 2 project creation wizard
Give it a name… like webtest
Select a web archetype… let’s say wicket-archetype-quickstart (the last in the wizard’s list)
Finish and wait while the dependencies are downloaded
Right click [...]

A while back I talked about how maven dependency on artifacts published in the repository was an annoyance to IDE users. If you haven’t read it, it can be summarized as if you only edit the code and compile, your maven builds will pick up the wrong dependencies because it will build against your [...]