Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Bulgaria, Golden Sands

Web AlbumOh yeah, a picture from my first holiday vacation. A picture of my friend David and some duck called "Heine" (Heineken addicted) at a restaurant in Bulgaria, Golden Sands. Where i also learned that it is not a good idea to try every shot from one bar within 50 minutes. :-P

Java IDE's

Today im going on vacation for the second time within a month :-P But before that im going to tell a bit of my experience with free IDE's for Java. Im not a java programmer, but i do wan't to be one. That's why i need an environment that do not confuse me, but has some sort familiarity to previous tools i've used (Notepad++, Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 + 2005, Dev-Cpp 4.9.9.2 and Code::Blocks). I've realised that it's not all editors that come with an WYSIWYG implementation to design user interfaces. When i started in VB 6.0 it was there, and i could not imagine programming without it. I wan't to experience more GUI development, and have looked at several IDE's the past couple of days:
  • Eclipse, open source, huge community, have not found any built in gui wizards or wysiwyg's but a couple of promissing plugins. Jigloo, and Swing Desingner.
  • JBuilder Foundation, from Borland, does have some reputation, and a nice look.
  • Netbeans, also a great community, and 5.5 introduces C/C++, but a bit heavy.
  • Sun Java Studio, proberly one of the biggest IDE's from the creators of Java. Everytime some of there sources are made public, then Netbeans integrates these. I have not tried Sun Java Studio, mostly because i have to be a SDN member, and i do not wish to add another license on top of the program itself.
Anyways, i think Eclipse would be my choice, because of the community and all the positive response from sites like sf.net. But now i better start packing :-) Have a great holiday.