Jacek on things

Recently I'm fascinated with sailing. Some time ago I've finished a sailing course that will enable me to sail on some most popular tourist sail boats. The more I'm learning the more things are getting interesting. For example, it sounds obvious that moving a boat involves many forces that all interfere with each other, however the way in which this all works makes you can move not only with the wind but also by the wind. Of course sailor has to do a plenty of math (aka experiance) to get some decent speed. Sailing makes for a wonderful subject in programming scenarios that I have in Eclipse Ajax Tooling (ATF) project , so I've started building a web yacht sails simulation. It will present a virtual boat that user can steer and put under various weather conditions. First thing I had to do was refreshing my knowledge about vectors. There will be vector for wind, water stream, vectors for sails, rudder and various resistances. The other story is making it all visible. I c

When Eclipse Ajax Tools Framework ( ATF ) re-started delivering builds some time ago, we scored some negative feedback that it's hard to find what actually ATF does, and how it should be used. This information, initially located in ATF help plug-in, was simply too hard to find. Now it's available at wiki and hopefull we'll be able to keep maintaining it both in wiki and eclipse help format. Check out sexy ATF help :-) btw. missed the Movember story? Ian explains .