How come nobody has really used / know IDEA (IntelliJ IDEA)? I think IDEA just rocks! many features in netbeans and eclipse are poor copies of IDEA's features. Plus jetbrains - the company that makes IDEA still manage to turn up a profit in the face of free tools such as Eclipse and Netbeans and JDev etc - that means something, doesn't it?
You know what the real pipe dream would be? The one where Google just saves Sun by buying it - I cannot think of a better, more powerful and more technology friendly company than Google for buying Sun.
I know, google is mainly into advertising and Sun is in to hardware & java. But Google is trying to make inroads into telecom / android which is based on J2ME, they use a lot of java, many java experts have moved to google, I think they will find a very good use of Sun and mysql.
There is one very big reason for Google to do this, and it's not what many Slashdotters think.
Anybody using Firefox or Chrome has Google as their default home. Anybody using IE has MSN as their default home.
This is a war over who gets to propagandize you with their ads and collect your personal information. There is no good/evil dichotomy here if that's what you're looking for.
Further, I'll end with a categorical statement in order to offend people: Anybody with strong feelings about which web browser is the best is probably spending too much time surfing the web, and is in fact suffering from an internet addiction. IE 7, Opera, and Firefox are all pretty similar from a normal end-user perspective.
effectively using the internet is NOT internet addiction!! making sure that the web experience is the same no matter what kind of machine you are on is not too much to ask neither is it even close to internet addiction!!
If I really need to pay for an IDE, then I would buy IntelliJ IDEA [http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/], Eclipse is good as a free tool, it is fantastic as a free tool, but I scarcely see it giving a run for IntelliJ IDEA as far as usability and features are concerned.
Of course there is a plugin for everything in Eclipse, but that in my opinion just makes it that much complicated....
Even in free tools I see NetBeans getting far ahead in the long run against Eclipse.
A recent Eclipse user.. and IDEA convert
If I really need to pay for an IDE, then I would buy IntelliJ IDEA [http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/], Eclipse is good as a free tool, it is fantastic as a free tool, but I scarcely see it giving a run for IntelliJ IDEA as far as usability, performance and features are concerned. Of course there is a plugin for everything in Eclipse, but that in my opinion just makes it that much complicated....
Even in free tools, I see Sun's Netbeans making huge strides in usability that Eclipse is almost playing catch-up (ruby (RoR), idm integration etc)
The link provided is to the single-page, non-ad filled "print version." Good move. Very un-slashdot like
Not to digress: But if you use a browser called "Firefox" you can say goodbye to all ad's on your page - you need a simple plugin called AdBlock. It has been such a long time that I have seen ads on any page that now I have begun to miss snippetty distractions.....
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How come nobody has really used / know IDEA (IntelliJ IDEA)? I think IDEA just rocks! many features in netbeans and eclipse are poor copies of IDEA's features. Plus jetbrains - the company that makes IDEA still manage to turn up a profit in the face of free tools such as Eclipse and Netbeans and JDev etc - that means something, doesn't it?
Previously discussed and still have it bookmarked: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/18/1633229&from=rss
So suddenly Google has become a bigger enemy/threat to Apple than Microsoft.. I never thought I would hear this..
Isn't Yahoo using Bing as their search engine now?
You know what the real pipe dream would be? The one where Google just saves Sun by buying it - I cannot think of a better, more powerful and more technology friendly company than Google for buying Sun. I know, google is mainly into advertising and Sun is in to hardware & java. But Google is trying to make inroads into telecom / android which is based on J2ME, they use a lot of java, many java experts have moved to google, I think they will find a very good use of Sun and mysql.
There is one very big reason for Google to do this, and it's not what many Slashdotters think. Anybody using Firefox or Chrome has Google as their default home. Anybody using IE has MSN as their default home. This is a war over who gets to propagandize you with their ads and collect your personal information. There is no good/evil dichotomy here if that's what you're looking for. Further, I'll end with a categorical statement in order to offend people: Anybody with strong feelings about which web browser is the best is probably spending too much time surfing the web, and is in fact suffering from an internet addiction. IE 7, Opera, and Firefox are all pretty similar from a normal end-user perspective.
effectively using the internet is NOT internet addiction!! making sure that the web experience is the same no matter what kind of machine you are on is not too much to ask neither is it even close to internet addiction!!
If I really need to pay for an IDE, then I would buy IntelliJ IDEA [http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/], Eclipse is good as a free tool, it is fantastic as a free tool, but I scarcely see it giving a run for IntelliJ IDEA as far as usability and features are concerned. Of course there is a plugin for everything in Eclipse, but that in my opinion just makes it that much complicated.... Even in free tools I see NetBeans getting far ahead in the long run against Eclipse. A recent Eclipse user.. and IDEA convert
If I really need to pay for an IDE, then I would buy IntelliJ IDEA [http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/], Eclipse is good as a free tool, it is fantastic as a free tool, but I scarcely see it giving a run for IntelliJ IDEA as far as usability, performance and features are concerned. Of course there is a plugin for everything in Eclipse, but that in my opinion just makes it that much complicated....
Even in free tools, I see Sun's Netbeans making huge strides in usability that Eclipse is almost playing catch-up (ruby (RoR), idm integration etc)
A recent Eclipse user... and IDEA convert.
The link provided is to the single-page, non-ad filled "print version." Good move. Very un-slashdot like
Not to digress: But if you use a browser called "Firefox" you can say goodbye to all ad's on your page - you need a simple plugin called AdBlock. It has been such a long time that I have seen ads on any page that now I have begun to miss snippetty distractions.....
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