Paint the Tiger, Carve the Swan

I was saddened to hear last night of the passing of an influentual man in my life. As a beginning teacher, I was posted to a “hard to staff” school, but had a fantastic coordinator and faculty that supported me. We did quite a lot of exciting stuff back then, including working with a retired engineer called Don Atkinson. Don’s specialty was electric motors, and he spent every Friday for most of my five years at that school coming in and designing and building them with a small group of students, and myself and my coordinator.

Don passed away on Monday morning.

Don led an amazing life. From going to Jazz Clubs as an underager during the war, to being one of the founding members of Flinders University’s engineering department, and finally working with children in a largely voluntary capacity, he will be missed by many people from many walks of life.

I’ll miss you, mate.

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Komodo is really designed for scripting/interpreted languages. However, I quite like it (although it’s a bit sluggish, but that may be me), and I’d like to use it for the small amount of compiled stuff I do.

For instance, I had cause to decompile, edit and recompile a Java application. I was able to edit it using Komodo IDE, however the debugger doesn’t work, and it doesn’t execute.

I did come up with the following command that will check the modified dates on the source and target files, if necessary compile the source to byte code, and then execute the program. This is for Java only at this stage, however, I’m planning to extend it.
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