Monthly Archives: February 2008

JavaOne 2008 Sessions

By TechKnow | February 13, 2008

I was reading over the descriptions for the currently scheduled sessions for JavaOne 2008. Here is a short list of the sessions that seem interesting to me in no particular order. BOF-5110: Extending Groovys Swing User Interface in Builder to Build Richer Applications BOF-5998: Meet the Java Posse BOF-6229: Cutting-Edge Productivity with RIFE and Web [...]

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Reading Client-side Files with XPCOM

By TechKnow | February 11, 2008

Recently I wrote a tutorial on how to use XPCOM in FireFox to access the user’s disk drive. With XPCOM you can access core browser functionality and with the right permissions can even read files and data off the user’s disk drive, access the network, and much more. In this code walk through we will [...]

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VMWare Fusion – Virtualization Software

By TechKnow | February 5, 2008

After seeing a Google tech talk on VMWare Fusion, I thought I give it a try. VMWare Fusion is a virtualization software for the Mac OS X that allows you to run additional Operating Systems such as Windows XP or Ubuntu while running Mac OS X at the same time. Basically you can run an [...]

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