{"id":77,"date":"2009-05-21T01:59:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T01:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2009-05-21T01:59:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T01:59:16","slug":"may-2009-cialug-meeting-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/77\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2009 CIALUG Meeting Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This meeting\u2019s theme: Programming<\/p>\n<p>Eclipse <span class=\"caps\">IDE<\/span> presented by Dan Juliano<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>http:\/\/www.eclipse.org<\/li>\n<li>UI layer runs on top of <span class=\"caps\">SWT<\/span> libraries, so it should be more responsive.<\/li>\n<li>Engineered differently than most other <span class=\"caps\">IDE<\/span>s<\/li>\n<li>Fairly memory-intensive.  Just launched, it took 135 MB of <span class=\"caps\">RAM<\/span> on Dan\u2019s demo system (an Intel Mac).<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"caps\">IBM<\/span> has put a lot of support behind this project.<\/li>\n<li>Primarily supports Java development, but there are versions and plugins for other languages.<\/li>\n<li>Aptana http:\/\/www.aptana.com is an online web dev environment that fits nicely with Eclipse.<\/li>\n<li>Good code validation plugin which will validate various languages.<\/li>\n<li>Standard <span class=\"caps\">IDE<\/span> stuff like syntax highlighting.<\/li>\n<li>Has a large undo feature that remembers every change made since you started the session and can revert to any point.  That causes a lot of the memory usage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several random discussions took place at this point in the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Hudson (https:\/\/hudson.dev.java.net\/) presented by Dan Juliano<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Billed as an \u201cExtensible continuous integration engine\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Tons of plugins.<\/li>\n<li>Dan exploring using this for automated scheduled jobs as a replacement for doing the same with cron.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several members of the group adjourned to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hessenhaus.com\">Hessen Haus<\/a> for food and beverages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This meeting\u2019s theme: Programming Eclipse IDE presented by Dan Juliano http:\/\/www.eclipse.org UI layer runs on top of SWT libraries, so it should be more responsive. Engineered differently than most other IDEs Fairly memory-intensive. Just launched, it took 135 MB of RAM on Dan\u2019s demo system (an Intel Mac). IBM has put a lot of support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[55,66,99,102,125,135,156],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-technology","tag-cialug","tag-des-moines","tag-ide","tag-iowa","tag-meeting","tag-notes","tag-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}