It’s old news, it was announced in August, but I only heard it today. It’s sorta sad, I enjoyed the game for awhile. It never had that many folks playing, and when they started merging servers, a couple of years ago, the cat was out of the bag…but still, it was (is) a very cool game.
Some screenshots here.
Apparently (here), if I step outside and start digging a straight hole, I’ll emerge somewhere southeast of Madagascar. Good to know.
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Two nice books.
Eclipse Distilled was surprisingly good. It’s short and sweet though it only talks about how to *use* Eclipse, not how to extend it. Very good for the purpose, recommended to anyone starting with Eclipse.
Ship It! was nice though I don’t feel I learned much. Great for someone who is either having trouble with their project and doesn’t know where to start, or for someone who wants a quick reference to best project development practices. Not to say that I already do all those nice practices, but I understand what they are, how to go about doing them, and now it’s just a question of actually doing them. No book is going to help with that.
Fabienne and I walked to the local farmers market. Pictures here.
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I took 3 days off, mostly trying to catch up with my reading. I did manage to read the two books I wanted to read:
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Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins
Despite it not being the most recent material (came out slightly before Eclipse 3.0 was released), this book is excellent, perhaps the best Eclipse book I’ve read. Definitely one of the two best. |
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Pro Eclipse JST: Plug-ins for J2EE Development
This was fine but the subtitle is definitely misleading (”Plug-ins for J2EE Development”). For some reason I thought I was going to read about extending the J2EE Standard Tools (JST) but I was mistaken. The book is about building J2EE applications. How to use Eclipse with the WebTools Project extensions. Not really a rip off because I can always use it for that purpose alone, but still disappointed…a little bit. |
This is the updated pile. Notice how it neatly splits into two themes:
The left pile has to do with programming, project management, eclipse.
The right pile has to do with philosophy, evolution, history.
The right pile is slightly taller though.
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