Archive for February, 2009
Scala and emacs set up
I lurk on a couple the scala mailing list mostly to keep up with the latest going ons as well as absorb some of the culture/idioms associated with scala. The scala IDE issue often comes up. A poster on the mailing list (Ray) put together an article on setting up emacs for use with scala. Here’s the link.
Miglayout
It is entirely possible that every swing programmer knows about this one but it was new to me when I encountered it. MigLayout is a layout manager that is designed to be used for people who hand code UIs and it is pretty nice. I have been hand coding the UI for SpiderSynth in scala and to be honest was getting on ok with the layout managers supplied with swing. MigLayout streamlined the layout process further, providing an improvement in my productivity in an area I was not expecting any.
It does beg the question what other free swing enhancements am I missing out on that I should be aware of. I have suscribed to Jonathan Giles blog as he seems to do a weekly round up of swing related stuff. Hopefully any good add on libraries should eventually appear there.