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• Visual Studio integration for Jazz beta available

  There now is a beta version available for Jazz / Rational Team Concert integration in Visual Studio. See this video for more information. I've seen the VS client in action at the RSDC. It's still pretty limited compared to the Eclipse based tooling, Read More... Posted Sunday, November 16, 2008 5:55 PM by peterhe | 0 Comments Filed under: Java, Jazz

• J-Fall 2008

  I visited J-Fall 2008 today, another successful Java conference organized by the NLJUG . J-Fall/J-Spring are the biggest Java events in the Netherlands, it's always fun to visit, see what the latest developments are, what people are doing and how Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:17 PM by peterhe | 0 Comments Filed under: Java, JavaFX, NLJUG, Flex, Jazz

• JavaFX: coming soon now

  Finally, a ship date is set for JavaFX: the new UI toolkit from Sun, designed to go head to head with Flash and Silverlight. December 2nd (2008) is the date that JavaFX 1.0 final will be shipped. Sun will also announce some other news regarding the future Read More... Posted Sunday, November 09, 2008 1:46 PM by peterhe | 0 Comments Filed under: Java, JavaFX

• Team Concert 1.0.1

  Rational Team Concert version 1.0.1 was released last week. The web site got a little refresh, check out the new overview of capabilities if you want to know more. There is also a little introduction video up on youtube with cheesy fake animations and Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:48 PM by peterhe | 0 Comments Filed under: Java, Jazz, IBM

• Jazz article published

  Shameless plug: If you are a member of the NLJUG Dutch Java User Group you receive Java Magazine for free. The latest edition of Java Magazine contains my article about the IBM Jazz ALM tooling project. If you are interested in ALM tooling or what IBM Read More... Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 5:16 PM by peterhe | 1 Comments Filed under: Java, NLJUG, Jazz

• Java 6 update 10 available

  Without a lot of buzz, Sun released update 10 of Java 6 yesterday on the download page . Update 10 brings a lot of improvements I've written about before and is the base release for the JavaFX framework. Update 10 also has a consumer download for Read More... Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 8:06 AM by peterhe | 0 Comments Filed under: Java, JavaFX

• Silverlight, JavaFX and Eclipse

  You may already have heard: Silverlight 2.0 has been released. This is a big update to the Microsoft alternative of Flash. It will be interesting to see whether Silverlight will gain momentum on the web, it will probably require another YouTube or a controversial Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:37 PM by peterhe | 0 Comments Filed under: Eclipse, JavaFX, Silverlight

• FindBugs 1.3.5: great new stuff

  FindBugs 1.3.5 has been released yesterday. FindBugs is a static analysis tool that automatically finds common bugs in compiled Java code. It's open source, easy to set up and usually reports "real" potential issues in code. Most people Read More... Posted Sunday, September 14, 2008 3:16 PM by peterhe | 0 Comments Filed under: Java, FindBugs

• From One Big Process to Practices

  Last week the Eclipse Process Framework project released a new version of their tooling and processes. EPF is basically a tool to build a process web site with, as well as open source versions of popular processes like OpenUP (RUP), Scrum and XP. With Read More... Posted Saturday, September 06, 2008 3:17 PM by peterhe | 1 Comments Filed under: Java, Eclipse, XP, Scrum, rup, EPF, practices

• The back of the napkin

  A good picture is worth more than a thousand words. In problem solving and communicating, pictures really can clear things up. Pictures are often better at abstracting and capturing a general idea, and our brains are very well optimized at recognizing Read More... Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:59 PM by peterhe | 0 Comments Filed under: presentations

• The BEA to Oracle rename

  Unless you live under a rock or are far away from Java EE development you'd probably heard that good old Larry used some lunch money to buy BEA, one of the bigger middleware companies. At my current project, we use BEA Weblogic application server, Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:47 PM by peterhe | 0 Comments Filed under: Java, BEA, Oracle

• Agile tooling explained by Kent Beck

  The word "agile" is used more and more, and everything around software development are supposed to be agile these days. Both Microsoft and IBM claim their new tools are "Agile", but didn't the agile manifesto say "people and Read More... Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 8:47 AM by peterhe | 1 Comments Filed under: Agile, XP, kent beck, Jazz

• Eclipse Ganymede out today

  The next release train of Eclipse is out now! 23 projects now, 18 million lines of code, lots of new and updated stuff. Eclipse 3.4 contains boatloads of cool little things, a new breadcrumb so you can do even more while full-screen, and the very advanced Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:51 PM by peterhe | 1 Comments Filed under: Java, Eclipse

• RSDC TV

  The RSDC keynotes are up at IBM TV (IBM login required). I can recommend the William Shatner keynote and the talk by Grady Booch is also interesting. Read More... Posted Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:32 PM by peterhe | 0 Comments Filed under: RSDC

• Scotty, beam me up!

  Scotty, beam me up! Today already is the last day of the RSDC . I had a great time. Yesterday the keynote was presented by William Shatner . He basically talked how about riding horses and punching wrestlers for the movies was almost the same as developing Read More... Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 4:55 PM by peterhe | 2 Comments Filed under: Java, Eclipse RCP, Jazz, RSDC