Congratulations, Fernando Alonso!

The youngest formula one champion in the history is Fernando Alonso. That’s clear after he finished third at Interlagos, Brasil today. Montoya won the race just before my personal favorite, Kimi Räikkönen.

You’ll be back next year Kimi!!!

Eclipse, take five…

As the few of you that actually reads my blog already know, I have quit my job in Telenor and started as a consultant again. My new employer is Net Professionals, and my first assignment is for a company that both use IntelliJ, Eclipse or whatever you want to use. But in this project all developers uses Eclipse, but I was free to use IntelliJ. I felt that this could be a good chance to learn to use and like Eclipse, even though that I have tried four times earlier without being convinced. But this time the version is 3.1 and it looks even better that the last time, so I am (trying) to be optimistic and starting up Eclipse and getting ready to do some real work.

One week later...
I am back using IntelliJ.

What is that makes Eclipse so popular. It’s free and that’s nice, but if you are a professional developer using your IDE or Editor many hours a day, $499 is not that much. The main advantage Eclipse has over IntelliJ is the wealth of good plugin’s. While IntelliJ have some nice ones, my favorite being TestDox, it is still far behind Eclipse. But as coders IDE IntelliJ shines, except for the ugly look and feel used by the 5 version. I wonder when I will try Eclipse for the sixth time…

Damn you Ruby on Rails

After discovering Ruby on Rails this spring :-) my interest in Java and Java related technology has dropped to the bottom. I’m thinking “why the hell should I want to do it in Java when I’m so much more productive in RoR?” Yes I know, Rails and Ruby is not the best choice for a lot of problems and systems, but it have made me often think that “this must be able to be solved an easer way using some other technology”. But that’s a good thing.