Archive for August, 2007

As the title says, work has replaced my previous Dell Lattitude D620 with a new 15.4" MacBook Pro.
I’ve only had the MBP for a couple days now so I’m still getting used to OS X.  There’s a lot more to learn but my two day impressions are positive.  Even the girlfriend likes it (she’s wanted [...]

I’ve been on vacation for the past week or so and took a couple hours to play around with Guice.
Guice != Spring Framework.
For those that don’t know, Guice is a light-weight dependency injection framework. What separates it from a few other frameworks is its reliance on annotations and code-based constructs for wiring together [...]

I went to school in Canada so we didn’t any of the controversy that’s currently brewing down at S. Carolina.
Their football coach, Steve Spurrier, is upset because two of his recruits were not admitted to the University based on their academic standing. The University managed to deny them admission despite them satisfying the NCAA [...]

Funny story, and a lesson on something to watch out for when dealing with Swing tables and event listeners.
Scenario:
Given a JTable, suppose you want to add some functionality to select all the wells on the table. Of course, it’s not just as simple as selecting every well, you only want to select the wells [...]

Bourne to Map!

Just got back from watching Bourne Ultimatum.
Best of the series as far as I’m concerned, definitely worth checking out.
Couldn’t help but notice the use of Google Maps for all their GPS tracking and in-car navigation systems Didn’t look all that outlandish either.




  • Win7, nice to meet you. I hate to admit it but I’ve been running Vista on a desktop machine at home for the better part of the past 8 months. It has not been ...

  • Windows Live Writer isn’t bad Until recently, the bulk of my writing was done on a Mac using Ecto.  I was looking for a suitable publishing tool for Windows and was directed towards ...

  • Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill. Signup for some random service on the internet Receive a confirmation email with your account information or Forget a password for some random service ...

  • Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...

  • Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld. It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...






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