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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Desktop progress meter

« on: January 06, 2013, 06:30 PM »

Progress bars of life

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Living Room / Re: Java debugging in Eclipse

« on: January 05, 2013, 09:42 PM »

IDEs mostly written in slow Java make me puke. Generally. (I wonder what IntelliJ is built upon.)
Never seen a good application starting with a capital J.

edit:
JDeveloper, not JDevelop, right?

-Tuxman (January 05, 2013, 09:21 PM)

Po-tat-o, Po-tot-o

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Living Room / Re: Java debugging in Eclipse

« on: January 05, 2013, 09:19 PM »

Honestly, I am contemplating a move to Oracle's JDevelop. It is far superior in terms of usability. I am holding off until the release of 12c with mobile support built in. Right now, you have to install ADT and a few other things to get mobile support, and even then it is kind-of clunky.

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Living Room / Re: Java debugging in Eclipse

« on: January 05, 2013, 07:39 PM »

ewemoa, thanks for the replies. I have solved my issue with debugging. Apparently, for debugging to work as I want it to, I have to enable step filters and filter out all java libraries from the debug process. By default, source files are not included for Java and as such, results in the error messages I was encountering. There was never a problem with my code, just that eclipse could not find the source for the JDK.

Below is a screenshot of the settings that need to be enabled to get rid of these error messages.

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Living Room / Re: MS Blocks Ability in Windows 8

« on: January 03, 2013, 09:18 PM »

Tinman, The start menu has acted this way since Vista....

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Developer's Corner / Re: What pisses you off? [NSFW - language]

« on: January 03, 2013, 02:43 PM »

Very similar threads are my pet peeve ;-)

-Josh (January 03, 2013, 02:14 PM)

Another pet peeve is people that necro-thread things gone past 4 or 5 years ago...

-Renegade (January 03, 2013, 02:27 PM)

Pet Peeve of mine is people who have pet peeves with people who necro-thread things ;-)

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Developer's Corner / Re: What pisses you off? [NSFW - language]

« on: January 03, 2013, 02:14 PM »

Very similar threads are my pet peeve ;-)

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Living Room / Re: MS Blocks Ability in Windows 8

« on: January 02, 2013, 09:14 AM »

Why do you need the start menu? You can simply click the lower left corner, where the start button used to be, and you can type just as you would before. I don't know many people who navigated the menus rather than typing the entry name...At least users NOT on XP.

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Living Room / Re: MS Blocks Ability in Windows 8

« on: January 01, 2013, 07:56 PM »

This is from August and there are ways to boot straight to desktop...

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Living Room / Re: Wonderful New Year's wishes from a long absent member

« on: January 01, 2013, 11:45 AM »

Hi Ken! I hope all is well with you! I see we are not too far from each other, so perhaps I will drop by and pay you a visit sometime soon.

Good to see you are doing well!
Josh

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Living Room / Re: :D

« on: January 01, 2013, 11:02 AM »

Spoiler

Messing with mouserbot on #donationcoder

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Living Room / Java debugging in Eclipse

« on: January 01, 2013, 11:01 AM »

OK, crazy question, but is there some trick to debugging a project in Eclipse? Ideally, I would like to start my code in debug mode and step through it without the need for breakpoints. Right now, when I set a breakpoint, some applications generate "Class Not Found Exceptions" and others generate "Thread.exit() not found" at the close of the application, despite running fine when executed normally, with appropriate results.

Is there some trick to debugging in Eclipse?

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Living Room / Re: :D

« on: December 31, 2012, 08:53 PM »

Spoiler

Yes! Happy New Years!

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General Software Discussion / Good coding conventions - Discussion

« on: December 30, 2012, 11:02 AM »

OK, a little background on the reason behind this post.

I have recently started teaching myself Java in an effort to start dabbling in Android development. I am using the Eclipse IDE in combination with the Sam's Teach Yourself Java in 21 days - Covering Java 7 and Android book.

As a course of habit, I find myself skimming each chapter so that I can see what things I might possibly miss by assuming I knew all of the material (yes, even variable types. I actually learned something reading through the types). This is where the discussion I want to have arises from.

When coding, I know common coding conventions such as coding indentation for readability, CONST/Finals being written in ALL CAPS in order to identify them as such. I was wondering, what other practices do each of you follow as you code and which are considered industry best practice?

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General Software Discussion / Re: The first rule of kernel maintenance: YOU DO NOT BREAK USER SPACE!

« on: December 29, 2012, 10:09 AM »

Not to sidetrack, but I think this ties directly into my main hold backs from switching to Linux full time. It is not the available software, lack of features, or anything like that; it is the support and my fear of asking "the wrong question" without reading 200 different pages first. This has gotten far better over time, but as someone who frequents several Linux IRC support channels (what better way to learn, right?), I can say I still see new users attacked quite frequently in a very similar manner. IT folk in general have a tendency to have a "My answer is always right" mentality, but I think it gets worse when you move to platform specific debates (Apple, Linux, Microsoft (to a point), or the web browsers).

Thoughts?

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General Software Discussion / Re: The first rule of kernel maintenance: YOU DO NOT BREAK USER SPACE!

« on: December 28, 2012, 09:55 PM »

Slashdot and Google reader

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General Software Discussion / The first rule of kernel maintenance: YOU DO NOT BREAK USER SPACE!

« on: December 28, 2012, 08:41 PM »

Warning: NSFW Language

A pretty harsh attack at a kernel maintainer, as written by Linus Torvalds.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Divide a txt file according rules

« on: December 28, 2012, 12:00 PM »

Is this the only rule you will need?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Steam Holiday Sale

« on: December 27, 2012, 04:07 PM »

Day 8:

L.A. Noire
F.T.L: Faster Than Light
XCom: Enemy Unknown
Worms Franchise
LEGO Lord of the Rings
Counter-Strike Franchise

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Community Giveaways / Re: Bit.trip runner - Free copy to first commenter (STEAM)

« on: December 22, 2012, 11:41 AM »

Sent!

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Community Giveaways / Bit.trip runner - Free copy to first commenter (STEAM)

« on: December 22, 2012, 10:17 AM »

To whomever posts first, I have a copy of bit.trip runner to give away. My steam user ID is Metshrine.

Ready....GO!

Store Page

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Configurable Backup Utility

« on: December 16, 2012, 01:22 PM »

OK, the idea behind this is quite simple. Many applications lack a proper backup facility for their application-specific settings. This application will take a configuration file, possibly developed by the community, and use it to backup the application's settings. For example, one could make a vlc.xml file and this application will be able to load this, and produce a backup of the configuration settings based on the paths stored in the xml file. The utility will have an interface that will allow for a single profile to be loaded and run, or multiple at once, and have the results stored in a zip file. Ideally, the user can load multiple files into the application before a backup is performed.

The community would be the driving force behind such an application as it would allow each user to develop an xml file for any application that does not have a proper backup facility.

What do you think?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Chameleon Task Manager on offer at Bits du Jour 2011-12-01

« on: December 15, 2012, 02:53 PM »

Chameleon Startup Manager v4 has just entered beta. For those who have not purchased it yet, you can get it for 50% (pro version) while the product is in beta.

Direct link for more info

New in this version

Support for Services and Task Scheduler
Many launch parameters (Internet connection, specified time, closing after a delay, etc.)
Many launch conditions (run if the computer is connected to the Internet, not more than once within the specified time interval, if the computer is idle, etc.)
Individual launch settings, delays, and order depending on the day and time
Compact mode (leaves maximum space for program data display)

Updated in this version

Improved performance
The interface has been redesigned
Full support for Windows 8

In future versions

Support for additionally launched items, such as Explorer extensions
Startup and shutdown performance

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - Progress Bars of Life

« on: December 04, 2012, 08:07 AM »

What a great idea mouser! I am especially fond of some of the screenshots and agree that the new dock could be useful with a tool like this.

These screenshots in particular, intrigue me: Source Post

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Living Room / Free E-book: 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10

« on: December 02, 2012, 03:23 PM »

This book takes a single line of code—the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title—and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture. The authors of this collaboratively written book treat code not as merely functional but as a text—in the case of 10 PRINT, a text that appeared in many different printed sources—that yields a story about its making, its purpose, its assumptions, and more. They consider randomness and regularity in computing and art, the maze in culture, the popular BASIC programming language, and the highly influential Commodore 64 computer.

E-Book Website

Needless to say, this is a very good read and gives an insight into early programming and randomization.