Who says being an PITA doesn’t get results? Well after getting an earful from the java community, Apple has finally released a new version of Java 1.6 for the mac. Now all naysayers that said java is dead on the mac can STFU. Oh wait, was I one of those people? […]
Well, not exactly but we are moving to a new server. Hopefully some of ya’ll that been syndicatin’ my blog will step up and gimme some of my archives.
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Am I the only one that is excited about the launch of Netbeans.tv? I love the concept and I hope the idea catches on in the development community. Parleys.com has been putting out some excellent videos an podcasts for a while now, even with their non-catchy domain name.. Looks like the “video” web is finally […]
Remember the days when Wikis were the next great open collaboration tool? They were supposed to shepherd in the long promised era of open collaborative knowledge sharing. Wikis around the Net loudly proclaimed “You can edit this page!” A wikis’ commumity would “police themselves”and the karmic goodness of the Open Collaboration would keep evil spammers […]
InfoQ has been putting out some cool articles lately and this one slipped under my radar: Using Java to Crack Office 2007
“Without anything more complicated than the native
JDK itself-in other words, no third-party libraries are
necessary-a Java application can now read and write any Office 2007
document, because Office 2007 documents are now […]
I love Maven, I like the way that it tries to define an infrastructure for building modularized applications. I love how it assumes testing is a standard part of the build process. My projects went from needing arial maps to finding config files to a nice standard layout that any many developers can understand. As […]