I despise the word "mashup", and people who use it too much, and the whole whiny hipster self-crucification feel of the discussion ...

BUT

Have you heard the infamous Cassetteboy records? They alone are worth all the hullaballoo about the genre.

Well put.

That is a pretty well written article. Yup. Merlin Mann is a smart guy, and I've seen him be a bit over-nice, but now he's fed up and hitting back. And it's quite the lashing. And he's absolutely right.

http://processing.org/

Clean, quick, cross-platform, can do pretty wild things right out of the box.

Make it fun, get them hooked.

Have you increased the heap size available to IntelliJ? Makes a big difference. Try 1 gig.

What is a DLC?

YES