a Small Matter of Programming

Recent Changes - idea for an Eclipse plugin

Every week it's the same thing: I have to do my hours. That means figuring
out what I did last week.

Eclipse already has a history of changes per file, it would be nice to make
a plugin which groups those changes per day (and perhaps summarize them).

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What language powers your desktop?

Havoc Pennington writes about the need to choose a modern language to replace C/C++ as the implementation language for (Gnome) desktop programs.

Paolo Molaro responds

I for one will be trying both Java and C#, the former professionally.

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Is Variant-in-Variant significant?

Comparing http://www.isotopicmaps.org/sam/sam-model/ and http://www.isotopicmaps.org/sam/sam-xtm/ it looks like the model does not allow nesting of <variant> within <variant>, but the syntax does.

Given that each <variant> still needs parameters, this makes sense, but it makes it impossible to generate nested <variant> elements.

Resolution: No nested variants in my database.

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Doxygen for Perl

Now available again: my plug-in for doxygen which allows you to document Perl and SQL programs. Get it here: DoxyGen-Filter or look at the examples

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