Hacking with IDE plugins – fun art of binary patching

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Today’s software is so much about integration. You can have a cool Java utility but if you don’t have an Eclipse plugin for that, a large % of Eclipse users won’t adopt (IDEA & NetBeans users require plugins just as much). In the consumer market the same goes for browser extensions and iPhone apps [...]



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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 [...]



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