CrowdStrike Windows Outage Notice Jacob Harris Fri, 2024-07-19 09:02 You might have heard about the global IT crisis caused by a recent security update, which is currently impacting Windows PCs worldwide. While the systems of the Eclipse Foundation have not been affected, this issue may impact the registration process for the Open Community Experience (OCX) conference.  If you encounter any issues while registering for OCX, please do not hesitate to contact us at registration@ocxconf.org. We understand that the deadline for early bird registration ends tomorrow, 20 July, and we will do o ..read more

They can’t hear you on mute. Photo by Josh Eckstein on Unsplash Quote category eight in the Desktop Don Reference (DDR) is about Communication. I wrote the original DDR in 2003. I added a new category called Communication in 2023. I originally predicted that I wouldn’t need to change the DDR as the categories and quotes felt like enough. I was wrong. However, I did put the following note at the end of the DDR for a reason. Note: If I could predict the future, I wouldn’t need to work. This was the the last line of the Desktop Don Reference for the first 20 years. This will r ..read more

The future always happens, and we see it just as it becomes the past. Photo by Hadija on Unsplash Quote category seven in the Desktop Don Reference (DDR) is about The Future. Stay tuned, the future is just off to the right. The Future Developers are obsessed with the future. We live in the present. We tend to forget about the past. You aren’t gonna need it. (YAGNI) A quote from Kent Beck which was popularized in Extreme Programming. We should only build the software we know we need today. We should not try and predict what we will need in the future and build that ..read more

Every day is an opportunity to learn something new. Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash Quote category six in the Desktop Don Reference (DDR) is about Education. There is so much out there in the world to learn. We just have to go find it and learn it. Education With so much to learn in the world, there is the challenge of deciding what and where to learn. Education doesn’t have to be strictly formal, like at a university or through an online course. We can learn stuff… in meetings pair programming in code reviews having coffee or going to lunch reading, writing, t ..read more

Don’t wander alone in the jungle of software development. Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash Quote category five in the Desktop Don Reference (DDR) is about Teamwork. Building great teams is hard. Keeping great teams together and happy for many years is even harder. These might be the two most important skills in software development. Teamwork Great teams are magical. I have been lucky to work on several great teams in my career. Great teams will inspire and motivate the individuals within the team and other teams around them. The following are the three quotes from the Teamwork categ ..read more

Slow down, think, and create models. Photo by Belinda Fewings on Unsplash Quote category three in the Desktop Don Reference (DDR) is about Time. Everyone gets the same amount of time every day, unless they are in space or flying through different timezones. What we choose to do with the time each day is what makes the difference. Time I won’t take a lot of time explaining the quotes in this blog so it is a two minute read. The quotes all come from the same article by Larry Constantine in a book with the title Beyond Chaos. Slow down to speed up. In the book, the job of a bo ..read more

That without a name would smell as sweet. Photo by Samuel Regan-Asante on Unsplash Quote category two in the DDR is about Quality. Quality is difficult to define in any concrete way. Whenever I try and define quality, I remind myself of a quote from George Carlin. Have you ever noticed that their stuff is $h!t, and your $h!t is stuff? Quality is a subjective measure. We have no common frame of reference for what exactly constitutes quality. But oh my gracious, we do tend to have strong opinions on what constitutes $h!t! We see crap code everywhere. We talk about code in ter ..read more

Software development tools and IDEs have traditionally leaned towards openness and transparency. Much like a mechanic who tunes and customizes their own car for optimal performance, this trend has … The post The Rise of Closed Source AI Tool Integrations appeared first on EclipseSource ..read more

Easy to recognize. Hard to achieve. Critical to seek. Photo by Pablo Arroyo on UnsplashTwenty Years of the DDR It’s been over two decades since I sat down and wrote down the Desktop Don Reference (DDR). The DDR is a collection of quotes organized by originally seven, and now eight categories. There are three quotes in each category, and one final note about one of my inabilities. I included the quotes and organized them into symmetric categories. because they have meaning for me. The quotes may or may not have meaning for anyone else. I would occasionally host discussions with t ..read more

You can’t drive the seats very far without the rest of the car. Photo by Vasile Valcan on UnsplashSplitting a String into an Array Split a String in Java and we get an array, or more specifically, a String[], which is an array of String. Here are two examples of String instances split into arrays of String. String[] nameArray = "apple,mango,pear".split(",");String[] emojiArray = "�,🥭,�".split(","); So we can split a String into an array. So what can the array do for us? The answer is, not very much. Seats won’t take you far The only meth ..read more