1. Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers (78 MB) Uh huh. 78 meg? Wow, that’s pretty small.
2. Eclipse IDE for Java Developers (91 MB) Apparently this includes Mylyn, which is “essential”. Hmm.
3. Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers (187 MB) ’Nuff said :-)

More seriously, the Eclipse platform is still my IDE of choice for Java development, and I enjoy working with it (so long as things don’t go wrong in the Eclipse Workspace). Time to get downloading!

(PS predictably, on twitter too!)

Update: actually, Mylyn really is useful!

Then again, if the only complaints about the process are coming from people who have never contributed a line of code to the site in their lives, I can safely conclude that we’re on the right track.

Read Where’s OpenNTF.org?. Then go read the post (and importantly, the comments against it) that inspired Nathan’s outpouring: Volker Weber: Quo vadis OpenNTF?

And there was me thinking that vowe.net was quite a popular site which gathers a lot of comments. I’m glad Nathan is setting us straight, and that no-one is complaining about the current red-tapery apart from Volker.

Now, given Jeff Gilfelt’s observations maybe it’s a good thing IBM are getting the intellectual property and legal things in place—that way they can protect themselves from… themselves.

 // Here we iterate documents in a view
 try
 {
 Document doc = view.getFirstDocument();
 Document docTmp = null;
 
 while (null != doc)
 {
 // Your doc processing code here
 
 docTmp = view.getNextDocument(doc);
 
 doc.save(); // assuming changes
 doc.recycle();
 doc = docTmp;
 }
 
 /*
 * Could do this in 'finally' if you like,
 * but you need to declare objects
 * outside the try... catch in that case
 */
 if (null != doc) doc.recycle();
 if (null != docTmp) docTmp.recycle();
 if (null != session) session.recycle();
 }
 catch (NotesException e)
 {
 // TODO error handling
 }
 finally
 {
 try
 {
 view.recycle();
 db.recycle();
 }
 catch (NotesException n)
 {
 // Don't care
 }
 } 

Hope this is useful for someone. Feel free to comment away and improve!

I think seven’s supposed to be lucky isn’t it?? Either way, I definitely owe a present—perhaps some actual site content would be a good start. I know it’s been rather quiet here: lots of coding, lots of working, lots of general running-the-ole’-business-ing. Watch this space, and if you’re still here, my thanks!

Tell Me How.

I love this sort of thing, and it’s all about how error messages aren’t enough without guidance. Information isn’t power, information + guidance is.

1. If your process gets in the way of delivering value to the business, you’re doing it wrong.
2. Please, don’t become the tail that wags the dog.

I thank you.

Wrong.

So, who are they going after next? Google? Many of the same principles at stake.

BBC news: Court jails Pirate Bay founders.

“Writer” doesn’t tell the half of it. Whilst Great Britain seems obsessed with the passing of people like Jade Goody, it does the soul good to take stock and ponder the passing of a true great.

Rest in peace Sir Clement.

20^th April update: wonderful audio of a fine joke, well-told:

BBC news: Police to probe ‘woman assault’. This is seriously nasty, seriously uncomfortable stuff. Combine this with the abuse of anti-terror laws, horrendous levels of closed-circuit snooping, and pre-emptive arrests to prevent peaceful dissent… Who would have thought the police state would come so soon?