DigitalHobbit

For various reasons, after using computers (and playing computer games) for 20 years now, I have finally decided to give in and buy a game console. Perhaps the main reason is that I’m fed up with the constant upgrades that are required in order to be able to enjoy the latest PC games. The console [...]

IBM has published a series of articles that compare Eclipse to various other IDEs. The three articles are titled “Migrating to Eclipse…”, which makes it pretty clear that there is an obvious bias towards Eclipse. Nevertheless, if you are familiar with one of the other IDEs, this might be a worthwhile read.

Eclipse vs. IntelliJ IDEA Eclipse [...]

IBM has published another article in their alt.lang.jre series, this time on JRuby. JRuby is a pure Java implementation of the Ruby language. Ruby is often described as an object-oriented scripting language, and it combines the pure OO features of Smalltalk with powerful scripting features along the lines of Perl or Python.

I have used various [...]

Interesting article on the recent Wikipedia controversies.

Have I mentioned how much I love Wikipedia? So far, I have always been able to find the information that I was looking for, including somewhat obscure topics and highly technical or computer-geeky information. Like most Wiki sites, Wikipedia has a very simple and clean design and is easy [...]