Students Expect A’s As Default Grade, Even If They Just Attend Class

I love it when the "entitlement" folks get called out.

STS installs tomcat

Spring Tool Suite has a nice feature on the STS Dashboard configuration tab to install tomcat. Its better than the server preferences way cause it installs a more current version (6.0.14 versus 6.0.20). I need to put in a feature request to include the minor version is the installation folder name.

STS

Oh yeah... later releases of spring STS 2.2.0 and 2.2.1 work wonderfully and all of my additional plugins (including subclipse) install without issue. What an awesome, preconfigured dev tool.

I was stoked to check out the grails support in the new sts 2.2 release… but no… something is hosed and they zip doesn’t include the freaking groovy or grails. And the update manager pukes when you attempt to install it. pooh

Eclipse.ini contents to make eclipse start much faster (thanks Stephen)…

-vmargs
-XX:+UseParallelGC
-Xms512m
-Xmx512m

Building GWT on Ubuntu.

After GWT was building, some of the test cases would fail. Most of them would simply exit with empty test logs. Of course this to had nothing to do with GWT. The default installation of Hardy includes libstdc++6 and the firefox libs included with GWT depend on libstdc++5. This was and easy issue to deal with (with some help from ssolka) except for wading through piles of output from ant -debug and junit.showoutput to get the problem to reveal itself.

Move over Easy Explore... Make room for Open extern.

I have been a fan of the brain-dead eclipse plugin Easy Explore for Eclipse for years now. It's time for Easy Explore to move over and make room for Open extern. Open extern does everything that Easy Explore does and then some. Easy Explore only launches Window's Explorer for the selected folder in eclipse. Open Extern, on the other hand, launches anything and works on OS's other than Windows. Typically one would configure it to launch a command line shell and a file explorer. The only problem is that one of the included jars is built with Java6 which renders it non-functional if you are executing Eclipse under Java5.