Monthly Archives: June 2007

Favorite Programming Tumblelogs

According to wikipedia, a tumblelog is a variation of a blog, that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging. I like to think of a tumblelog as a miniblog. Here are some of my favorite programming related tumblelogs.

Anarchaia – This might have been the first tumblelog, according to [...]

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Multiscreen Dialogs and the JFileChooser

I develop software on two monitors, one monitor dedicated for the IDE/debugger and one for running the application. But when you develop on two monitors you will soon notice that your dialogs will not always pop up on top on your application. I’ve already written a bit about dual monitor environments when talking [...]

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Chain JavaScript Events

In JavaScript there can be only one JavaScript onload event handler. This is a somewhat an issue if you have all sort of third party libraries that want to run some piece of JavaScript code when the page finishes loading. You can use the YUI! Event library add and chain event listeners to [...]

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JavaOne 2007 Conference Notes

Here are all my notes taken at CommunityOne and JavaOne 2007. I was in San Francisco for 5 days and attended over 40 technical and birds of a feather sessions and managed to put together this 30 page document. For you download pleasure you can find a PDF version of all my conference notes.

CommunityOne [...]

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Writing Games with Project Darkstar

For the last session of JavaOne 2007, I attended the Writing Games with Porject Darkstar technical session presented by Chris Melissinos, Sun’s Chief Gaming Officer, and Jeffrey Kesselman, Chief Darkstar Architect. Project Darkstart is Sun’s Gaming Server (SGS). Chris told the crowd of gamers that there is a huge demand for online game [...]

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Filthy-Rich Clients – Talk Dirty to Me

Romain Guy, of Google, and Chet Hasse, of Sun, presented on their forth coming book Filthy Rich Clients which is based on a previous JavaOne technical session of the same name. They described this session as “the presentation based on the book based on the presentation.”
The session began with a slide listing Data Binding [...]

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