Archive for June, 2007

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Version Control: From Where We Began to CVS and Subversion

I came to work here at SlickEdit during the early nineties.  I was just out of college and had a lot to learn.  A lot of things have changed since then.  We changed the name of the company, switched offices a number of times, released twelve versions of SlickEdit (some of them were called “Visual [...]

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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Learning to Fly: The Musings of a New SlickEdit Employee

I first started using SlickEdit when I started a new job. It was first on a long list of programs that I would need to install to set up my development machine. I was also handed a SlickEdit travel coffee mug and a SlickEdit t-shirt. My first experience with SlickEdit, the editor, was when I [...]

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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Eclipse 3.3 Plug-in Development Gotcha: What happened to JavaFileEditorInput?

If you develop a plug-in for Eclipse, you know that each release cycle you have to deal with new incompatibilities between your plug-in and the new version of Eclipse. There is always a plug-in migration guide to help you, and typically they do a pretty nice job. Every cycle though, there is usually some compatibility [...]

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