Hudson and accessibility : don’t use green ball plugin

Generally, and not only in Hudson, you should install a plugin to a tool you use only if it really brings a feature.
About Green ball plugin, not only, there’s no feature enhancement, but it’s an accessibility regression : color blind person don’t easily differentiate red and green. To have an idea of how blid color [...]

Posted at 11:28 pm on December 4, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: continuous integration | Tagged: , , , , | read on

First step after installing Eclipse

Do you know what you should do, immediatly after installing Eclipse ?
Setting your file ecnoding charset : by default, Eclipse uses cp1252, wihch is not quite ideal if you have to deal with internationalisation and character manipulation in your datas with differents charset.
Just go to the window- preferences menu and select General – Workspace in [...]

Posted at 6:36 pm on December 3, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: IDE, Java | Tagged: , | read on

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Hello. Let me introduce myself. I’m a project manager for some years now. Working on various projects, I had time to time to deal with Java (mainly J2SE) and though I’m not a developer anymore, I have to write some code, assist junior developers and check technology choices. So here his the place I choose to share my experience on Java.

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