Nicholas Hagen

Eclipse Galileo has officially been released and with it comes multitudes of changes. Below are my favorites from the Platform, JDT, and Web Tools projects. For more information, including screenshots, see: http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.5-200906111540/eclipse-news.html http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/releases/3.1.0/newandnoteworthy/index.php Mac OSX Builds Use Cocoa and Sheets The platform now uses native cocoa-build SWT widgets, rather than the obsolete Carbon. This brings [...]

I have always been a huge proponent for separation of concerns, code reusability, and code independence such that you can easily move code around, replace, re-use, etc.  Even though often times you sacrifice speed due to additional layers of indirection, you gain much in maintainability.  Maintainability is often an overlooked statistic as it is harder [...]