Where Are The Wise Men?

Eclipse has been making me mad lately. Too many little things take too long, things aren’t working quite the way I think they should. And Eclipse is a beast to configure to do the way I want it to work.

I’ve heard good things about NetBeans and I downloaded the latest, but it seemed that [...]

Herein lies an update from our weekend:

Our dishwasher has been given us fits again. I found Sundberg Appliance by my house and they told me to clean out under the screen — that something was probably blocking the pump. Sure enough, I took about five orange seeds out. But it still [...]

While Blaine starting to attend the Church of Emacs I’m sorta having a crisis of the faith. I’ve been working on a Rails project lately and have gotten re-acquainted with Textmate again. I remembered why I liked it so much — it’s project mode is perfect for the many, many files of Rails. [...]

Why are many developers satisfied with only knowing a small domain of technology? Another way to ask that question — why are most developers fine with putting their application into a system they know nothing about. Sure, you may be a Java developer, but you need to know something about how application servers [...]