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Eclipse is extraordinary

11 April 2004 By Avinash Meetoo 12 Comments

I’ve been using the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment for Java programming language for the last year now and I can say I’m impressed.

In fact, I’m so impressed that I’ll make a bold move and say aloud: Eclipse is the BEST programming tool ever.

It’s nicest featured according to me are: its integration of JUnit for unit testing, its rather magnificent refactoring facilities and its compatibility with CVS for version control and team development.

I also like the fact that it’s compiler is very quick and that its sourcecode editor has a lot of very useful features (like syntax colouring of course but also all sorts of automatic error correcting tools).

But the best thing is that Eclipse is Open Source Software meaning that it can be freely downloaded and used (and abused…). Thanks to IBM for having created and donated something as powerful as Eclipse to the OSS community.

Eclipse works wonderfully well in Linux but it also works in Windoze and MacOS X.

So give it a try… and I’m sure you won’t look back :-)

Dining at Spur

10 April 2004 By Avinash Meetoo Leave a Comment

This evening, Anya, Christina and I went to Spur at Quatre-Bornes where we had a nice dinner. We started with some Quesadillas: a Mexican dish made of flour tortillas, cheese and chicken and cooked until the cheese melts. Then as the main course, Christina took some Fajitas, another Mexican dish. For my part, I ordered a simple (but very nice and tasty) beef steak with french fries and fried onions.

Anya, of course, was allowed to take whatever she wanted from both our plates :-)

Henry is sooooo good :-)

9 April 2004 By Avinash Meetoo 1 Comment

Arsenal has beaten Liverpool 4-2 (against all my predictions). Henry was instrumental in our defeat scoring 3 of Arsenal’s goals and his second one was wonderful.

I have to accept that Thierry Henry is the best striker in the whole world.

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