Automatically generate function header comments in netbeans

Oh Netbeens how we love you, today's tip comes from a question asked in IRC that was.

" Excuse me my good sir but is there a way to generate the phpdoc function headers? I'm using Netbeens 7"

Well yes little Tim there is, this code complete tool works in all the supported languages Java, PHP, C++,C ,and  of course plenty of others, it's so so ridiculously simple to use.

Graceful Degradation and Progressive Enhancement.

Java Tips and Hints: Comparing Strings in Java with examples.

This might seem like an ever so obvious thing to most users of the good old Java, however it comes up in IRC and the /r/java subreddit all the time. so this brief post is to help them all out and me so I don't have to keep typing it.

OK so you should be reasonably familiar with the "if" statement well here is a program that uses it:

import java.util.Scanner; 

public class Variables {
        public static void main(String args[]) {
                Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); 
                System.out.println("What is your name? ");
                String name = input.next();
   
                if(name == "bob")
                {
                    System.out.println("Your name is awesome, " + name);
                }
                else
                {
                    System.out.println("Your name sucks, " + name);
                }
        }
}

Well there you go that  program is syntactically correct it will compile and run, so we did it? well nope, There is a logical error in that code take a second to go compile it. no matter how you type bob it will not tell you that bob is an awesome name this is because we are comparing for a reference.

Instead of using "==" we need to be comparing for value equality, So we do that like this:

import java.util.Scanner;
public class Variables {
        public static void main(String args[]) {
                Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); 
                System.out.println("What is your name? ");
                String name = input.next();
   
                if (name.equals("t"))
                {
                    System.out.println("Your name is awesome, " + name);
                }
                else
                {
                    System.out.println("Your name sucks, " + name);
                }
        }
}

Go ahead and check out the "if" statement now on line 18 you see that is how we compare Strings we are comparing the value equality in that string.

OK so now we have that we might find we have another issue you need to type "bob" because if you type  "Bob" with a capital letters in it then will return "Your name sucks" and we might not want that.

In that case we can use this ".equalsIgnoreCase" instead of just ".equals" that way we can Ignore the Case of the string.

OK then so now we have them what about more, well there are a lot so why don't you look in the Java documentation and leave a comments with the things you find.

Mark Morton is now a toon.

Developing The SU:C:

So for my final project the big project that must be completed of i just wasted three years of my life project. I'm bringing out all the guns and developing something big.

The Student Utility Card (SU:C) is a e-learning solution that brings function and utility to an otherwise useless tool , by fully harnessing the power of the cloud and learning applications the SU:C aids in learning, it is calendar system allowing timetable updates to be automatically sent to groups of students and individual students, the card is update by a server/API system.

An instillation of the System

Implemented in the latest JavaFX standards it can run anywhere on any device deployed on USB enabled ID cards allowing access to utilities that students would not be able to easily access otherwise.

So they were giving out free Dr. Peppers.

Well ...what a week.

For this blog post I’m going to take a different tacked, Instead of just posting useless things I found around the internet, I’m going to tell you what I’m doing. (yay me)

#1 Learning Blender 

This is hard... really hard. I have been working with code for some years now and learning the XNA game studio for C# was a piece of cake but, I have come to the realisation that all 3D animators and asset creators are bat shit insane.
That aside I have finally created the concepts and will be posting them in the coming weeks. 


#2 Setting up r/fireworks 

 

I have been a long time Adobe Fireworks advocate, a web prototyping vector and bitmap tool. I’m so nice I have set up a sub reddit to work on my skills and help others. 

So you can have some Fireworks tutorials in the coming weeks, how nice am I? 


Here is a link if you are interested.

#3 Arguing with the passport office. 

 

So it looks like I’m not going to France next week, due to some inept moron at the passport office. So i don’t get to go to my own brothers wedding.