Archive for the 'Open Source Software' Category
More for personal interest than anything else but I’ve decided to re-write and open-source part of what I worked on for the last hack day.
I’ve called it JDBCSpy and it’s available over on Google Code. It’s worth noting that there are a couple of other projects that also aim to accomplish more or less similar [...]
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 was pretty keen on attending this years OSCON in Portland but it unfortunately didn’t fit into the conference budget.
It’s never really a replacement for attending but a good majority of the presentations this year are now available (as PDFs) here.
I haven’t looked at many yet but there appear to be some fairly interesting talks [...]
It’s almost been a year since JavaOne… you know the one with Marc Fluery up on stage in a red beret and the rest of the crew (notably Bill Burke) sporting the same goofy hat at one point or another.
I bet it’s been an interesting ride for Marc and it’s not really a surprise to [...]
I spent most of today debugging some performance problems we’re having in our application. It’s fun stuff, I really enjoy it. Lately it’s been a lot of threading work with Swing which is a fairly interesting area to play in. It’s amazing what kind of perceived performance improvements you can make by [...]
I’ve been using the latest del.icio.us plugin for awhile with Firefox 2.x and have been quite impressed.
Although my experiences have been largely positive I did have to start with a new account b/c my previous one suffered from poor tag choices (and del.icio.us didn’t provide much in the way of batch modifications at the time).
If [...]
I had a few days off from work over the holidays and decided to do a bit of an investigation into Gavin King’s new web framework, Seam.
My recent background has predominantly been in the J2EE space (Spring + Hibernate 3.0/3.2) but fronted with a thick Swing application as opposed to the typical web application. [...]
A year or so back I experimented with TiddlyWiki but didn’t really get beyond that.
I’ve since taken it up again as an attempt to become better organized. We use Confluence at work and I’ve experiemented with having a personal space where I can record my ToDo’s and other misc. pieces of information. It’s [...]
I just caught an announcement that Compass 0.9 was released. Not knowing what Compass actually was, I ventured over to the OpenSympony site.
Compass is a first class open source Java Search Engine Framework, enabling the power of Search Engine semantics to your application stack decoratively. Built on top of the amazing Lucene Search Engine, [...]
I blogged a few days ago about an exception that was cropping up when doing a Desktop.open() on OS X.
Tonight I hacked out a simple solution.
Instead of
Desktop.open(file);
I do:
if (OSUtils.isMacintosh())
{
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(”open”, file);
}
else
{
Desktop.open(file)
}
OSUtils.isMacintosh() just does a check against ‘os.name’ to see if it matches the signature of a macintosh.
Pretty simple. I haven’t actually tried it out in the [...]
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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An implementation of the JVM in Javascript? 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 ...
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Facebook Chat? 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 ...
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