Month: February 2012

  • Building jEdit from source

    I have recently agreed to take over development of the JSLint plugin for my favourite editor, jEdit. To start developing I decided to build jEdit and its plugins from source, which wasn’t as easy as I would have expected (thanks to deffbeff for some po…

  • Goodness in programming languages, part 1 – syntax and layout

    In this series I will comment on what I like in some of the languages I use. I will cover things that I find convenient, things that might lead me to write correct code, things that tend to make my code more readable, and possibly other things that I j…