Java
Back with a vengeance- life after falling in love with swing
I’ve spent quite a bit of time away from my blog. I always shrug when people explain where they’ve been- “we didn’t notice u were gone dude” but I have to say this disappearance was for a good reason. I was tightening up my swing. Pardon the pun- I mean Java-Swing. One of the pieces [...]
Lightzone….looks like Adobe Lightroom
I was about to accuse the LightZone application built in Java of being a LightRoomknockoff or vice-verse but then I read on the linking blogthat clarified that the application uses the Substance look-n-Feel which is based off Adobe LightRoom, Aperture, and Microsoft Expression Blend.
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I love my Flash Platform- Please don’t make me learn J2ME
I love my Flash Platform- Please don’t make me learn J2ME
My Treo 650 is sitting here on my desk. I’ve spent the last chunk of my spare time trying to figure out how to throw together an application for my colleagues at work for this thing. There’s no Flash player for this and [...]
“Program to the interface”- I get it! I finally get it!
After a few months of thinking of interfaces as the chapter that I would gloss over in every Object-oriented programming book that I read the reality of the power of the interface hit me like a ton of bricks today. Well to be honest it brushed me yesterday- I was reading through Eckel’s Thinking in [...]
Java Mustang- and Scripting
I’ve been researching this new feature in the upcoming Java-Mustang. The ability to integrate scripting languages and use them to access the Java API. In particular I saw them mention using Javascript to access the Java API. The first thing that came to mind was that if Javascript can access the Java [...]
Flash and Java Side by Side
I’ve been trying to do a lot of Java exploring lately because I find really neat apps that might make good porting candidates. Either way I wanted to post and example because I’m very much a learner through parallel paths (Abstraction –sorry couldn’t resist the pun) so when I understand something in one language it [...]
