It strikes me that if you really want to work on an IDE, there are open-source IDEs that can use core and/or plugins developers. The IDE I use and work on is Jext at http://www.jext.org . There are probably bug fixes and feature additions you could tackle at any given time. Jext has a good reputation as well. It has been mentioned on java.sun.com and has been a featured project on www.sourceforge.net . If you subscribe to its mailing list and post looking for something to do, you may find something quickly. Actually we are due for a major rewrite eventually although you probably don't want to wait that long for a job. ;)
One more benefit of working on Jext for you might be that the lead developer of Jext, Romain Guy, is French as well. -Matt --- Olivier SCHMITT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi scott, > > > >On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 01:59 AM, > Olivier SCHMITT wrote: > > > >> > >>>Olivier SCHMITT wrote: > >>>>hi, i'm currently building a Java IDE with ant > support. > >>> > >>>Either you're really really good do not like any > of the open-source > >>>IDE's enough to extend them to your tastes > (NetBeans, Eclipse, jEdit) or > >>>you're insane! > >> > >>I'am not insane ! :o))) This ide is a demo to show > my java skills. I'am > >>unemployed ... :o((((( > > > > From my own experience on both sides of the table, > employers are most > >impressed by practical and actualized job skills. > (In english - show that > >you know how to do something they want, and show > that you have done it > >already.) After all, if you can already do at > least one thing they want > >done, they get clear benefits by hiring you. > > > >An IDE is a big task, and one that is likely to > while away many happy > >hours. That said, with any luck, you will be > employed before you finish > >it, and so it will not be a complete project to > show during the interviews. > > > >You might be far, far better served by picking a > project already in > >progress, and fixing bugs. My choices would > probably be something like > >ANT, Maven, or CruiseControl, as we use the one, > and will likely use the > >other two at some point. The key benefits are > showing an interviewer that > >you are intimately familiar with the tool and how > it helps them, and that > >you are able to work with a large existing code > base. Further, you do not > >lose the ability to bring in code samples. > > As i've have already told some people of this list, > my experience with > interviewers is quite different (maybe another > french exception ), most of > them were from marketing and sales. They don't care > about Ant and other > open source project ! They haven't heard about it ! > But i will expose my research on ant and maybe i can > get involved in a > project. > For now my ant parser based on Xerces is able to > parse test cases files > provided with ant sources and to display a JTree > representing > the ant file. As NetBeans does it but my parser > handles ant 1.5 tags. > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
