I am grateful to the author of the “You are number 6″ blog for pointing out two great sources of information on All Things Java Related. In future I’ll be asking Fred and Eric about a lot of things! Definately a couple of links for my course pages.
Found a couple of useful sites which I’ll use to get LaTeX working with XEmacs. Using XEmacs to edit LaTeX files and Sridhar Lavu – LaTeX on Windows.
Came across this survey of Screen Presentation Tools by Michael Wiedmann whilest looking for ways to do lecture slides/notes in LaTeX. I was directed to that page by blog entry LaTeX beamer on the but she’s a girl… blog by way of a Google Search for LaTeX beamer. This was after finding a reference to the LaTeX beamer package (a similar package to Prosper) in New Beamer from Kai von Fietel’s Geek Notes2....
I liked Together for Java. Before it was bought by Borland, Together was available to academic institutions for free. I used it in my teaching. It had some of the best looking diagrams, could round-trip Java code, and auto-create sequence diagrams. All great stuff when you’re in the business of teaching Modeling and Java to beginning programmers. When Borland bought Together, the free academic licensing deals dissappeared also. Last year I had to rewrite my UML tutorials for Rational Rose (available for free for academic use from IBM) which is far less friendly....
Second article in new IBM developerWorks series alt.lang.jre is an introduction to the Groovy language by Andrew Glover entitled Feeling Groovy. The first article in the series is Get to Know Jython by Barry A. Feigenbaum and is also worth a read. Groovy has a possible advantage over Jython in that it has become the subject of a Java Community Process (JCP) project (JSR 241) and so may become a “standard” for scripting Java objects....