Blog Archive for timboudreau during June 2009
A few people know that since I was 11 I've been writing and recording music. I recently created a ReverbNation profile to share some of it. Of course, I can't resist prefacing a song with a bit about what it's about and how it got written. So I'll embed the player in this blog and tell a story or two.
It's a hard thing, to decide what to say about a song or any work of art you've created -...
Bruno Souza got a whole bunch of us together to participate in creating this video (embedded below) - how Java Users Groups drive Java - from an unusual perspective :-)
A few photos from around JavaOne, taken with the world's weirdest lens - a Lensbaby Control Freak - this is a lens that you can twist and turn like a flexible tube.
It lets you do some things that were possible on old-fashioned bellows cameras, but are normally impossible with an SLR camera, where you can't change the relative angle of the lens to the film/sensor. For example, the "Java =...
Over the years, a few people have come across and used a bit of code I wrote for Imagine. You basically have the problem that Java image data is stored on the heap as giant byte[] arrays and you quickly run out of memory.
One of the JDK team guys assured me about two years ago that with JDK 7 this would no longer be a problem - but I got no sense that he either understood what the problem was,...
