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The BileBlog is painfully accurate
Let me start by saying I know Hani better than most people reading his blog. To me, I know him as a very smart developer who has an amazing ability to 'not take crap' from the tools he uses.
This is a very, very important ability. He thinks for himself and refuses to be lead 'down the garden path' by BS marketing droids, whitepapers and extraneous, overzealous blog posts.
So what myths is he lancing this week?
- IDEA's new features - I have to agree with him that I don't give a toss about AspectJ integration. I'm addicted to the new JUnit integration though, so back to 3.0.x is a no show. Oh and to the commenter who said to fix CVS integration before adding Subversion? 2 points.
- Eclipse - well, I don't use it so I don't mind but the SWT comments sound valid.
- Xdoclet - a great tool, very useful when you need it but I agree with him that writing your own i18n framework for build messages seems a little silly. I don't use XDoclet that much (not being an EJB wonk) but Ara is sure a top bloke so I hold out hope for a good XD2 release.
- Clover - I'm not sure I really care if Clover generates a million files on disk. It works very well so I'm happy with it actually. Now if only that damned Maven plugin worked...
As always - think for yourself before reading anything, you might just learn something :)
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Hi Mike,
WRT the Clover plugin for Maven. Are you sure you are using the latest version? I remember someone has upgraded it last week for Clover 1.2 and AFAIK it was working for him.
If there's an issue it would be good to post it on the Maven JIRA at http://jira.codehaus.org/ or discuss it on the Maven mailing list! :-)
-Vincent
while i agree that he is right at some points, i just find it really annoying the way he writes stuff.
picking things which are just a bit of annoying, for example that you have to define JAVA_HOME, and then
rambling about it for ages and trying to be funny? hmm.. i guess there are more important things to care about..
More important things? If they were important, it wouldn't make any _sense_ to rant about them in that way. It's the triviality of something like the JAVA_HOME problem that makes it so frustrating, and that is where rants come from.
Honestly, how can you take that guy seriously?
I can't believe that you, of all people, listen to what he has to say. He has yet to produce a single argument that is not "I don't like it, ergo no one should like it".
- Jake
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