JDJ AOP reference

The current issue of JDJ has a feature article titled "AOP Technology Update" by Patrick Fendt that in the very first paragraph gives me "credit" for copyrighting the phrase "third dimension of programming". I think that must have been pulled from a powerpoint presentation I did back in 2001, but I was misquoted (and I certainly did not copyright anything). What I did say in there is "A cross-cutting concern is scattered because it is realized in the wrong dimension". The graphic on that same slide suggests 3 dimensions, but that is only because it shows only one aspect. The technically correct term would be "multi-dimensional separation of concerns", which I would probably attribute to Harold Ossher and Peri Tarr, but I have not fully researched its origin.

NEW: Metrics plugin 1.3.6 for eclipse 3.1

I just released the new 1.3.6 version of the metrics plugin for use with eclipse 3.1. Use the update site at http://metrics.sourceforge.net/update, or download it from the project page and install from a local update site. Other than adjusting to the new 3.1 apis, in this version several major and minor bugs were fixed. Note that the dependency view will still not work on the Mac because AWT and SWT still don't play nice there... Other than that, enjoy!

I want to thank Guillaume Bossier and Uwe Kubosch for their major contributions in both time and code.

New article about Voice Tools Project

This just in: The Eclipse Voice Tools Project on the voicexmlreview website. This article pretty much describes what I was talking about in my previous entry.

I'm available

If anybody is hiring eclipse plug-in developers. I'm available... I just learned that my current contract at IBM had to be prematurely ended for budget reasons :-(
For samples of my work, see metrics and the Eclipse VTP project. Here's the blurb from my resume on what I did for the VTP project:

"Developed Eclipse plug-ins for the IBM Voice toolkit, a development toolkit for VoiceXML applications based on the Eclipse environment. Worked on editors for VoiceXML, CCXML, LXML, SRGXML and JSV (JSP for VoiceXML), both for a commercial IBM release running on RAD 6.0 as well as the open source voice toolkit (VTP). As part of this work I’ve become very experienced with the Structured Source Editor (SSE) framework in the Eclipse Webtools project, as well as some voice related technologies such as MRCP over RTSP, and JMX based administration of IBM’s WVS voice server. I am experienced with the latest eclipse 3.1 APIs since the VTP project had to be made compatible with those while both Eclipse and the Webtools project were going through their prerelease development cycles. My experience with agile processes and affinity for refactoring and adapting to change played a big role in making this successful."

Perhaps I should change careers like my wife did and join her at her massage practice. Can't off-shore those hands! She seems to be doing great and is helping a lot of people to get rid of their pains. I could use a good massage right now.....

Million Download Challenge

I've been looking at the downloads counter on the Eclipse Downloads page for a while now, and at this rate, I'm going to go broke! (For the reason, see the challenge page) But it's for an excellent cause, so I don't mind :-) On a related note, it took me several attempts to download 3.1 for Mac OSX, did those all count? Is the counter transactional? Just wondering....

RC2 is smoking!

Holy smokes! I could not believe how fast RC2 starts up! Whatever you guys are doing to the platform, keep doing it :-) If you don't have RC2 yet, get it at Eclipse Downloads.

Hilarious: madbean's Totally Gridbag

This is hilarious: madbean's Totally Gridbag!

Even though I'm probably one of the dozen or so java programmers who used to actually like the Gridbag layout... One of those things that once you get the hang of it, it's pretty powerful, and I used it all the time (much to the dismay of my fellow programmers, one of whom I married :-).

I agree that at first it is way too complex though, and I much prefer my current life as an Eclipse/SWT programmer :-)