Programmer ADD: The (often external) push to work on many projects at a time rather than focusing on and accomplishing one task at a time. I currently work for a small company and unfortunately that means I’m constantly being pulled in many directions. There just aren’t enough people to do everything, but lately I’ve started…
Eclipse Helios (3.6 RC4)
I’ve been a user of Eclipse for many years now and when I saw there was a free t-shirt to be had by reviewing the newest release there was only one choice to make. 🙂 The download is exactly the same as all previous releases but the first thing that struck me was the startup…
Still Alive!
Well, this is a great title for this post not only as it’s the first blog post I’ve made here in seven months, but I’ve also had the song from Portal stuck in my head lately. 🙂 Looking at my blog it would be easy to classify me as MIA but I’ve actually been quite…
Loops in Scala
Lately I’ve been learning the ins and outs of the Scala language and I have to say, having programmed in Java for the past several years, that Scala is scratching where I itch. It is a lot to grasp and mind opening, but all-in-all I see Scala as what Java could have evolved to if…
jSeamless 2.0 is Coming!
From the outside looking in it would appear that jSeamless is all but dead, but if you’ve been paying attention to SVN commits you’ll notice there’s been quite a lot of activity for the past several months. I have somewhat abandoned what small community I had with jSeamless 1.0 in an effort to “start over”…
Java Delegates in xjava
I posted over a year ago about Delegates in Java, and since I kicked off an exploration of the functionality I’m providing in my xjava framework with my previous post I thought I would continue with my newest iteration of the Delegates concept as utilized in xjava. Until you use a language like Scala or…
The Death of Beans
My previous post was more of a rant about the frustrations of Java Beans: Have Beans been holding us back? I stated at the end of my post/rant that my next post would be about what I suggest as the viable successor to Java Beans. To that end, I begin my discussion about properties. Though…
Have Beans been holding us back?
I have been a Java developer for many years now and have always taken for granted some of the standards pushed on me from the beginning. Java standards such as basic Java Beans (aka POJOs) are supposed to make life easier by providing simple getters/setters that work with the private fields of your Object. For…
Java Media Components (JMC) in Swing
If you’re like me and have been really excited by all the hype of JMC, but think of yourself as a Java developer and not a fly being beckoned to the newest scripting framework with its bright and illuminating glow (JavaFX that is) then JMC comes as something of a disappointment. After all, every article…
JavaFX Wrapper: jSeamless 2.0
I made a post recently (I Hate JavaFX; I Love JavaFX) in which I did a preliminary investigation on the idea of using the JavaFX API directly in Java rather than relying on JavaFX Script to do the job. I used the Clock example I saw on a tutorial on Sun’s site as a practical…