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Caught this over on JavaPosse Google Groups.
Essentially, some bright fellows over in Japan have developed a bytecode->javascript compiler. There’s a demo floating around that took a Tetris (persumably AWT) implementation and has it running as Javascript in the browser.

John Resig has the best overview of it that I’ve seen so far. There’s a PDF as [...]

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Joe’s talk at the Java Posse Roundup on UI Polish and Usability has been posted (actually it was posted last month, I’m just working backwards).
Lots of interesting discussion about formal usability testing and good design in general.
I completely agree with a distinction being made between usability testing, design (information architecture and use cases) and polish. [...]

So it looks like the Facebook Chat service has finally started rolling out to my network (Facebook Chat has been mentioned previously).
Not quite sure how I feel about it yet. I don’t really need yet another IM solution (beyond Twitter, MSN & Jabber/GTalk) so it’s very unlikely that I’m going to be consistently keeping a [...]

Today was our first hack day of 2008. I’ve been helping coordinate these events for the past year and a half and they’ve proven to be a solid source of inspiration and motivation for all participants.
Unfortunately for me, today was more or less a day of false starts. Like always, I had a number of [...]

I just got home from Open Web Vancouver 2008 and I must say that MacBook Pro’s definitely reigned supreme amongst all presenters.
The crowd was slightly more diverse but still plenty of MBPs and even a handful of MacBook Airs.
Keynotes by Zak Greant and Tim Bray were very well received and very much inspirational in their [...]

As an outsider (and a non-executive one at that) looking in, I can’t help but agree with Mark’s latest comments on CEO Pay. Obviously things are different in companies of 10,000+ employees and market caps north of $1 billion, perhaps that’s why I’ve been far more comfortable in start-up land.

Put another way, every hired CEO [...]

We recently finished a short two week spike that involved using Hibernate Search (backed by Lucene) to index additional attributes that were persisted as an xml snippet stored in CLOB field.
Simple enough goals:

What does the performance curve look like?
Can we search the indexed attributes? (the biggie here was to still be able to do a [...]

The Secret Life of a DefaultTreeModel
A good article if you’ve ever found yourself debugging rendering issues with tree tables.

If only I had a nickel for every time I’ve seen the above problem…