I would apologize for the recent lack of updates if anybody besides myself was actually reading my blog… ;) Anyway, we moved to our new house in San Francisco last weekend, and overall everything was pretty smooth. Of course, with two little kids it takes a lot longer to unpack everything and settle in, so the garage is still full of boxes and I haven’t even started with my office. But the actual living area is mostly complete already....
Mark just published a Wiki plugin for WordPress on his Weblog Tools Collection. This is great news, and I can’t wait to install it on my blog. I am a big fan of Wiki servers as collaboration tools and for simple knowledge management tasks, and even though the collaboration aspect would not really apply in case of my own Wiki as I would probably be the only one posting to it, it should be a convenient mechanism for me to publish non-blog content....
We are very excited about moving into our new house this Friday. All of the basic utilities are taken care of, we have phone service and cable TV, etc. Unfortunately, DSL won’t be active until Wednesday, so we’ll be without high-speed Internet access for around 5 days! I guess we’ll be busy unpacking and therefore hopefully won’t miss it too much, but after having cable Internet service for a good 3 years and DSL for two years before, it’ll still be awkward....
The Eclipse Project has released the final version 3.0 of the popular Eclipse IDE. I am currently IntelliJ IDEA and I still very much love this IDE (even though I’m still stuck with version 3.0.5), but Eclipse 2.1 looked very promising when I played with it briefly a while ago, and I am sure that Eclipse 3.0 will be even better. With a great open source IDE like Eclipse and the excellent (and unfortunately not free but at least reasonably-priced) IntelliJ IDEA, the big, bloated, and expensive IDEs such as JBuilder should be in a lot of trouble…
Sun has decided to rename J2SE 1.5 to J2SE 5.0, as this is a very significant relase with important changes to the Java platform. According to this The Server Side posting, Sun also considered getting rid of the “2” and going with J5SE instead, but this was not a good choice because of the J2EE brand. I think Sun made a bad decision when they released J2SE 1.2, the first Java 2 release....