Eclipse 3.1.0 build M4 (released in December 2004) now contains full support for all J2SE 1.5 new language features. This is the first Eclipse build to include support for 1.5.
Further details in the 3.1 M4 release notes
Booch diagnosed with heart troubles
Booch has been discussing his recent diagnosis of having an aortic aneurysm on his website’s blog.
Our thoughts and well wishes go out to him and hope that he can hang in there.
5 Reasons to move to J2SE 5.0
With every new release of software there is always reluctance and resistence to move to the latest version.
Sun offer a ‘why you must move to J2SE 5.0’ article on their site.
Configuring a Linux server using Webmin
I don’t mind reading through man pages and searching around on websites to work out what commands I need to manage my Linux server (on which this site runs), but I recently came across Webmin which made my life a whole lot easier.
Webmin is a great web-based front-end to Linux to allow you to tweak and administer your Linux server incredibly easily.