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Configuring Eclipse – “fail fast”

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Another guest post from our favorite PHB. I don’t have the slightest idea why he has Eclipse installed or better yet, why is he trying to run it. Probably overheard something from devs at the water-cooler and wants some free time from PowerPoint.
My Eclipse instance starts with a warning popup. Well, most likely it picked [...]



1st of April Joke Gone Wild (updated)

Monday, October 26th, 2009

1st of April is a great day, lots of cool hoaxes all day around. We at ZeroTurnaround have contributed with DNArebel – Improve Yourself Today and JavaRebel Goes AI. Usually everything ends once the day is over.
This year’s dow.ngra.de hoax, Microsoft acquires ZeroTurnaround for undisclosed amount has amused us even months later. Couple of weeks [...]



Netbeans – running programs the easy way

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

I have not been so angry at an IDE for a while, arrrrrrrghhh, rant follows.
How hard can it be to add JVM arguments to the run configuration of an application when running it from an IDE? Lets say I want to add -Dsuperboost=true or just ~/myconf/.myconf to the Java application?
Eclipse has a green button and [...]



When “Do no evil” becomes “Hear no evil”

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

After 4 cancellation requests, 2 forum requests, 1 billing support request and 2 months of waiting I’m posting this blog post to let out some steam and hopefully one day get my money back. A story of what happens when the same company offers the service and the payment but no support.
It all started out [...]