Saint Louis is a sweet spot to be a developer right now because there are tons of jobs. Saint Louis is a sweet spot to be a passionate developer because we have an amazing user group community. There are active user groups for Java (two), Ruby, JavaScript, and .NET (two). There’s user groups for mobile, …
The new version of IntelliJ IDEA is out, and I’m liking it. Gradle integration: creating a new project from a build.gradle was smooth and easy. Then when dependencies were added to the gradle file, the gradle plugin came in handy. One line added to build.gradle apply plugin: ‘idea’ and then one execution of gradle idea …
Remember the early days of XML, when people were all excited about using it to wire up applications? “You can change which implementation is used without changing any code!” Sure, right, XML isn’t code. It gets packaged in your jar files, with the code. It controls how your application works, like the code. It breaks …