My wife is playing WOW, and she has NEVER played any sort of FPS or MMORPG in her life. Usually just played the puzzle type games (Zuma, Bookworm, etc).
So if you're wife is nagging you about spending too much time playing WOW, just get her addicted too!
You could also check out my database tool DBInspect. No SQL syntax coloring (yet), but it's free, supports many databases out of the box, and has some nice features I've not seen in other tools.
The major benefit, besides the shorter easier to read code (i.e. no casting), is that the compiler can now check to ensure you don't ever put the wrong type of objects into a collection.
A whole class of bugs that you would only see at runtime can now be caught at compile time.
"On top of that, as IDE's go, show me a better one than VS.NET?" Intellij IDEA (Java only, sorry.)
Put down the Visual Studio, and enjoy getting off the MS development tool treadmill. (Personally, I don't like having to learn a complete new tech stack whenever Microsoft tells me to. That's why I stay completely away from their languages and their development tools.)
Re:Not free but ... IntelliJ is by far the best
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I've been a Java programmer since 1997, and have never really liked any of the Java IDEs out there enough to regularly use them until I came across IntelliJ IDEA. Most others seemed to get in your way more than they helped you, and took a good amount of unnecessary time to learn.
With it's seamless CVS and ANT integration, I had my project running in IDEA in about 10 minutes. I liked it so much, I paid for the 400 clams for it out of my own pocket!
I need to checkout where Eclipse is at this point, but I REALLY doubt I'll be switching to anything else.
Try Intellij's IDEA, it's one of the most powerful Java IDE's out there, and it's written in Java Swing.
I won't argue that Java GUI apps still take a serious amount of memory, but the performance issue problem is a thing of the past if the developers know what they are doing and you're using a reasonable machine.
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My wife is playing WOW, and she has NEVER played any sort of FPS or MMORPG in her life. Usually just played the puzzle type games (Zuma, Bookworm, etc).
So if you're wife is nagging you about spending too much time playing WOW, just get her addicted too!
You could also check out my database tool DBInspect. No SQL syntax coloring (yet), but it's free, supports many databases out of the box, and has some nice features I've not seen in other tools.
With a extra work and testing, the Java desktop applications you write can work correctly and consistently across any 1.3+ JVM.
I'm getting really tired of seeing Java apps that are setup requiring an EXACT JVM version. All this shows is testing laziness.
As long as we're mentioning Java Web Start deployed database tools, I'll mention mine as well.
Check out DBInspect.
It means many people's (only) impressions of Java technology come from their happening across a badly written Java applet in 1997.
Nevermind that it probably runs more business systems than any other language besides COBOL.
The major benefit, besides the shorter easier to read code (i.e. no casting), is that the compiler can now check to ensure you don't ever put the wrong type of objects into a collection.
A whole class of bugs that you would only see at runtime can now be caught at compile time.
"On top of that, as IDE's go, show me a better one than VS.NET?"
Intellij IDEA (Java only, sorry.)
Put down the Visual Studio, and enjoy getting off the MS development tool treadmill. (Personally, I don't like having to learn a complete new tech stack whenever Microsoft tells me to. That's why I stay completely away from their languages and their development tools.)
I've been a Java programmer since 1997, and have never really liked any of the Java IDEs out there enough to regularly use them until I came across IntelliJ IDEA. Most others seemed to get in your way more than they helped you, and took a good amount of unnecessary time to learn.
With it's seamless CVS and ANT integration, I had my project running in IDEA in about 10 minutes.
I liked it so much, I paid for the 400 clams for it out of my own pocket!
I need to checkout where Eclipse is at this point, but I REALLY doubt I'll be switching to anything else.
Try Intellij's IDEA, it's one of the most powerful Java IDE's out there, and it's written in Java Swing.
I won't argue that Java GUI apps still take a serious amount of memory, but the performance issue problem is a thing of the past if the developers know what they are doing and you're using a reasonable machine.