Blog Archive for evanx during July 2006
Ethan Nicholas blogged recently on
"Reinventing GridBagLayout", which enjoyed many comments regarding simplifying
GBL, and problems with GBL. Karsten Lentzsch notes that "SpringLayout is very powerful,
ExplicitLayout is powerful, FormLayout is quite powerful,
HIGLayout is quite powerful, GBL is weak." He compares layout managers at the end of his
Forms whitepaper.
We hear that...
This series kicked off with
Trip and Tick 1: Checking out a java.net project.
So you're hosting your project on java.net, and you've uploaded some screenshots. Supoib!
The next step is putting a Webstart "Launch" button on your page, innit.
Oh and a screencast video thingy, see the upcoming Trip and Tick 3: The Movie
for that.
Since i'm too lazy to read the JNLP documentation, and to...
I commented in
Simon Morris' "In Defence of the Desktop", on how non-database desktop apps could use a database, for example for logging. Then queries could be performed using dates and severity, eg. for looking for exception stack traces after the fact. See my upcoming Plumber's Hack 2 article, where i undertake to demonstrate this :)
Maybe you venture onsite for a meeting, and get cornered...
= 0) {
mainTabbedPane.setSelectedIndex(mainTabbedPane.indexOfTab(tabName));
return;
}
JPanel worksheetPanel = worksheet.getWorksheetPanel();
mainTabbedPane.addTab(tabName, worksheetPanel);
mainTabbedPane.setSelectedComponent(worksheetPanel);
worksheet.openWorksheet();
}
public void closeWorksheet(ZWorksheet worksheet...
This morning i stumbled across Dan Cresswell's "Java is not a programming language" where he mentions Java being "blind-sided" by Ruby. I got me to musing...
The Java language is a general purpose programming platform, on which one can build RoR'esque and PHP'esque solutions, via libraries, frameworks, or whatever.
People are naturally trying to invent easier reusable ways of solving specific...
I got an email on Friday from a chap in Italy asking where he could
find a document on how to run aptframework
in Netbeans, which is like pressing not one but two or three, of my JButtons simultaneously,
and which has led to me to writing this blog article. I'm sure he'll be watching
Italy in the World Cup Final this weekend, rather than doing anything else,
but anyway here goes.
Let's say...
