Atom.io

About two months ago I discovered the existence of Atom.io, a free editor from the GitHub team. This fact, being from the GitHub team, made me wonder. There are not good editors for Windows. I usually use Notepad++ that is great, but somewhat limited on extensibility. When I use Mac OS X or Linux, I […]

Java User-Friendness

I can’t see how people say Java is an end-user language, whose applications are for general user usage… SEVERE: Exception javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: “fo:inline” is not a valid child of “fo:block”! (See position 1870:716) at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:302) at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:130) at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:174) at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:205) Caused by: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: “fo:inline” is not a valid child of “fo:block”! (See position […]

Nine tools I can’t live without (for Windows)

First, a relevant disclaimer: I use Windows mostly for two purposes, test my Perl modules under a Windows environment, and printing some stuff as my Mac sometimes can’t find some Windows printers in the network. This said, my Windows runs in a virtual machine, and I install these tools right after installing Windows. Browser The […]