Saturday, April 19th, 2008
I just saw this blog entry from Jan Erik Paulsen, the guy that runs Teppefall Labs. Question: why is Sun Microsystems bothering to invest in client (desktop) Java and RIA?
Sun is in danger of losing what position they have in the desktop/client market already, vis-a-vis Swing. While Swing has, ...
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Sunday, November 12th, 2006
The last couple of days people have been pointing out Chris Oliver's blog on his new language, F3. F3 is a language hosted on the JVM which targets creating content in 2D, using Java2D APIs. I won't go into the details, but I recommend you try out the demos (he's got ...
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Monday, April 10th, 2006
So a few days ago I took another look at Xilize, and man, is it great. We're preparing a release for Flying Saucer, the XHTML/CSS renderer project, and I needed to update (and write) a bunch of documentation. The last docs were written in plain HTML, and I've gotten to the point ...
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Monday, February 14th, 2005
I was thinking about the MVC (Model-View-Architecture) design model while looking at an application with notifications. The application is mainly accessed through a complicated GUI client. Notifications are triggered by data-bound conditions, and on a notification, one either has colors on the screen change, or a popup window opened. But ...
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Saturday, February 12th, 2005
Rushing Towards Frustration
My friend Ken Moore, a programmer like myself (but with much longer experience) writes to me periodically about his ongoing frustrations with programming. He's currently a Java programmer, but has also worked with COBOL (I think), C and C++, Perl, etc., as well as some 4GLs. He's been ...
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Friday, February 11th, 2005
I was working with NetBeans the other day, debugging some of my
own code. I had been running the debugger repeatedly, tracing through
the code over and again. NetBeans gradually slowed down, and stepping
through lines of code became downright painful. I finally stopped and
restarted it.
(I wrote this last Spring, in March 2004 ...
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