Archive for December, 2011

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

Last Minute Gift Ideas for the Programmer in your Life

If you’re in need of one last gift for the techie on your holiday shopping list, we suggest the following. Caffeinated Soap No, we’re not making this up. http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/giftsunder10/5a65/  Between end-of-year project deadlines, gift shopping, and other holiday preparations, a coder can get really squeezed for time. And you don’t want to back a programmer [...]

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Friday, December 16th, 2011

Setting up new file types with the SlickEdit Core plugin

Many developers work with source code which resides in files with “non-standard” extensions. By a standard extension, I am referring to something like .cpp or .java. By a non-standard extension, I am talking about .ryan, or .data. I will show you how to quickly and easily set up your SlickEdit Core editor in Eclipse to [...]

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Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

SlickEdit Core for Mainframe Developers

The problem of retiring mainframe developers has been well publicized in recent years. Mainframe systems are not going anywhere, and programmers now expect to be working within the comforts of a modern IDE, rather than on a simple terminal. Eclipse-based front ends have become great solutions for this new generation of programmers working on mainframe [...]

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