Category Archives: IDE

Useful tips regarding Integraded Development Environments.

NetBeans 6.7 RC2

By TechKnow | June 8, 2009

NetBeans 6.7 Release Candidate 2 was released recently and I already have it installed and running. It is also worth noting that several NetBeans related books came out in print just before JavaOne 2009. In full disclosure, NetBeans is not my primary IDE. I mainly use Eclipse for Java development, sometimes Visual Studio for some [...]

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Develop Flash Applications with ActionScript and FlashDevelop

By TechKnow | October 20, 2008

My abilities as an artist extends to drawing stick figures. Although this might be enough for internet comics such as xkcd, I always wanted to create complex geometric based artwork. I played around with Flash before, but I found many of the designer oriented concepts in the Flash authoring tool a bit to cumbersome for [...]

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Microsoft DreamSpark

By TechKnow | July 9, 2008

Even thought I am a Windows user, I am no where near a Microsoft lackey but recently I learned that Microsoft is giving away a ton of professional grade software to students. Through the Microsoft DreamSpark program, students can get access to Visual Studio 2008 Professional, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Microsoft Expression Studio, XNA [...]

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Eclipse Tool Tip #7: Resource and Class Type Find

By TechKnow | June 6, 2008

It is hard to keep track of all class files you may need to edit in large project, much less the package those classes reside in. When I need to lookup and inspect a class I use the Ctrl+Shirt+T to open the Open Type dialog. This dialog allows you to enter the class name, or [...]

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iPhone and iPod Touch SDK

By TechKnow | March 6, 2008

At a press conference earlier today, Apple released the much anticipated native SDK for the iPhone. iPhone applications will be created using Cocoa. To develop native applications for the iPhone, developer will be using the XCode IDE and the newly released iPhone SDK and iPhone simulator. Third party applications will be made available through an [...]

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Debugging Users and Invisible Characters

By TechKnow | January 2, 2008

As a developer working for a startup with live software in the field, I often have to problem solve some interesting and out of the box bugs. One recent bug was related to changes to the Daylight Standard Time and Sun’s Java Timezone Updater, which is far from the control of my code. The Timezone [...]

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