http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse4/

Eclipse is still a good option for at fat client.

I use both G+ and FB.

The great joy of G+ for me is how easy it is to share some content with some cirles.
So I share pictures of my kids with my family and links to Scala programming with my geek friends.

Only sometimes, I'd like to share some of my "personal" stuff with the FB crowd as well.

I have tried several chrome plugins and FB's mobile e-mail sharing, but none of them really works.

Do you guys know of a way to share a private G+ post to FB??

I work as a java developer.

Java itself is open source now, so is all libraries, tools and servers that I currently work with.

Our "product" (a website) is not open source.
So depending on what you mean, it might not be an open source job.
- But it is open enough for me.

+1 I was about to post that one. It is the most original invitation I ever saw. It is low tech instead of high tech though. Yet so much cooler.

http://kellianderson.com/blog/2011/04/a-paper-record-player/

Eclipse has an excellent solution for this.

Ctrl + 3 pops up a search window that lets you type your way in to every available command in the system. Including what is hidden in the menues and context menues. So instead of trying to remember if the "Override/implement method" is hidden in the Source or Refactor menu or in the context menues somewhere, I just press ctrl + 3 and type 'override'.

I miss that in MS Office and many other applications.

Looking back at my invoices, I can see that I usually work more hours those two months than any other months of the year.
I also get depressed from lack of sunlight in the dark Scandinavian autumn days.

On the other hand a total of one (and that was some trivial layout) bug was reported on the code I coded and shipped in that period this year.

Maybe the bugs are only found later?
That also suggests that the bugs found in October and November was introduced by the interns during the summer vacation?

The chances of me giving birth to anyone are astronomical ;-)

I am not a trekkie, but you must be referring to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_First_Contact

The Enterprise arrives in the past, on April 4, 2063, the day before humanity's first encounter with alien life after Zefram Cochrane's historic warp drive flight.

So I assume that Zefram will invent it. I'll be sure to suggest that as a name candidate for my future grandchildren.

Thank you. I was not aware of your book.
Looks good.

Make your black box join a wifi network or blutooth.

Then make apps for Android and iPhone that can control your device.
That way the customers can choose which device they want to control your device with.

As a default device you can tape som generic Android tablet to your device.

Same idea as http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/en/

Of course I realize that your application is probably much more serious than a flying toy, but the basic idea is good for many applications.

This is why I think Scala will succeed.

Scala has all the advantages that the article mentions AND you can integrate and reuse your old Java or .NET code and libraries.

It's there. The tooling doesn't suck half bad anymore. The world just needs to find out.

I personally think that Scala will win over the 10% best Java programmers as soon as the tooling is comparable to Javas.
And that might happen within the next 1-2 years.

Take a look at Scala collections.

Scala lists look and feel immutable, but under the covers they are really mutable to remain more performant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg4trPZFUwc

I dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu and I can't install Windows 7 SP1 because it can't handle that I use grub as my bootloader.
So, yes, they are doing it already.

Though this one must go down to the Napoleon quote: Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

I always found the coolest geek insult was: "I can replace you with this (hold out thumb and index finger) much code".

I've done it a couple of times too in my career.
But I must admit that I never had the guts to say it to the face of the people I made obsolete...