NetBeans rocks...

There's an old saying which goes something like, "For every door that closes, another opens." Just realized how true it was today. As the last blog post mentioned, I'm down with a viral infection, so no college for me(ok, so this isn't really a bad thing)...Worse still, JCreator - the Java IDE that I usually use - started acting funny today. Every time I try to save something, it pops up this little dialog saying "The given task was completed successfully." Needless to say, no changes are saved...

A reinstall didn't work - that was how I fixed it the last time this happened. Since I wanted to do the practice rooms for SRM 258, I fired up NetBeans - made some changes to my FileEdit config, and got to work.

I was astonished. The last time I'd used it, I hadn't been very familiar with Java - plus my experience in Java IDEs up to that point had been limited to TextPad(which isn't really an IDE, just a text editor with indentation and higlighting...). Back then I wasn't very impressed. Now it feels like a revelation.

I'm seriously contemplating switching over to NetBeans for SRMs, especially because I don't want to run into a JCreator bug in the middle of the TCO qualifiers. Not that I have that much of a chance, but you never know...

Earlier today I was reading up on Cantor's Diagonal Argument after brushing up on Turing's proof of the unsolvability of the Halting Problem. I googled it, and to my astonishment, I found a bunch of pages claiming that the diagonal argument was fallacious - which also kills off Turing's proof and Godel's incompleteness theorem(I'm not perfectly sure about this bit, though)...And more fundamentally, all the stuff that Cantor proved about infinities would be thrown out of the window as well.

They're obviously wrong - but are they serious or joking?

This is why Computer Engineering really sucks - you miss out on all the cool maths that Computer Science people learn. No wonder I'm still green at TC...

NetBeans 4.1 downloaded. Off to install...