As the title says, the Eclipse plugin for Frame2 is almost done. Of course, “done” is a relative term. In this case, it means that the plugin has been updated to work with the latest version of the framework, including the updated DTD. Unfortunately, it also means that it still has the same limitations that [...]
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Documentation is Always the Hardest Part
I’ve pretty much wrapped up the coding for the next version of Frame2, and decided to give the documentation a once-over. All in all, it’s not too bad, but it’s not great either. There’s some real improvements that can be made, but I don’t see it happening any time soon. Don’t get me wrong – [...]
read on »Adding Features Uncovers Old Bugs
This seems to happen to me no matter what project I’m on. I try to implement a simple (or not so simple) feature and end up exposing at least one bug that’s been hiding around for quite some time. As an illustration, I was adding a feature to Frame2 today to allow some parameters to [...]
read on »A Consistent API is a Very Good Thing
I’ve been mucking around in the codebase, cleaning up pieces of the API that annoy me. Some bright person thought that it was a good idea to have a method that returns an Iterator to access a collection. I’ve been cleaning up all of these methods, changing them so that they return an actual collection [...]
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