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Computing
A collection of 38 posts
My first Maven plugins
I suppose you never forget your first Maven plugin. I’ve created two, and they’re both sync’d to Maven Central.
The first takes a description of Java Swing controls with configurations and creates image files of them for use in documentation.
The second allows the output of the
I'd rather fiddle with tools than code
Apparently I like fiddling with tools if they’re the right tools. I’m trying to get good syntax highlighting for Java and XML in DocBook running through Maven.
If I can get Doxia to do it, that’s great. Otherwise I’ll need to move to the DocBkx plugin,
Ron Burk has a new ignite video up
My old college friend Ron Burk had an Ignite video go viral last year. This one probably won’t, but it’s still a good presentation. It’s called “Three Strange Definitions of Computer Programming”. He’s a good presenter, so you might find it interesting even if you’re
I want to code, not fiddle with tools
I’ve spent a good deal of the morning dealing with issues between Eclipse (my IDE), Subversive (the subversion integration for Eclipse), and M2Eclipse (the Maven integration for Eclipse). (Subversion is a version control system.)
Gaah….
Sea Glass now on Maven Central repository
We released version 0.1.6.1 a few days ago. This has very few changes from the 0.1.6 release, the main one being that we are signing the jars and putting them on the Maven Central repository at http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/, in particular:
http://repo1.
About that Apple tablet
So they announced the “iPad” today. (Insert menstrual joke here.)
It’s 10″ with a 9.7″ diagonal 1024×768 pixel 4×3 aspect ratio screen. They say it’s 1/2″ thick and about 1-1/2 pounds.
The OS is basically a slight evolution of the iPhone/iPod Touch
Sea Glass Look and Feel 0.1.3 is released
We’re still nowhere close to complete, thus the low version numbers, but this is the first version that looks decent on a non-Mac. The transparency doesn’t seem to work on Linux (at least not on my Ubuntu 9.10 system), but the window corners are rounded on Windows.
Sea Glass Look and Feel
I’m currently working on getting JTextField to use the client property of “JTextField.variant” equals to “search” to print a rounded search field with an hourglass in it.
My outer glow is messed up, but worse, my internal drop shadow is messed up.
I’m using the Nimbus Effects
Comments on cloud computing
Originally, I typed that title as “clound commuting”. Fingers don’t always do the right thing, even on a Dvorak keyboard.
Ron Burk has an interesting comment on cloud computing.
It pretty much mirrors my thinking on these subjects. Do we really want a vendor to keep our data, or
Sea Glass (alpha) is released
Ken and I have released version 0.1 of the Sea Glass Look and Feel for Java.
This is very preliminary.
See the project site for more information.
In particular, we don’t have good focus indications, some alignment may not be correct, we’re still using Nimbus controls for