eitan's blog

Why I do Open Source

First Kirill blogged on "Why I do open source" and then invited Andres and Alex to do the same. So a chain reaction is in motion. Andres published his version, and tagged me and three others. So here's my entry, my version of "Why I do open source."

Desktop Matters Retrospective

An essential ingredient for a community is periodic face-to-face meetings. Although events such as JavaOne have served the purpose in the past, this event was stricly about the Desktop, and (unlike JavaOne) was very small and most intimate.

All sorts of matter..

I'm excited about the upcoming Desktop Matters conference, which takes place March 8-9 this week in San Jose, CA. This conference is a first of its kind, focusing on Swing and other desktop technologies.

That Open Source Feelin'

I wanted to wait for the dust to settle a bit before airing my comments on the now dated news that Sun Microsystems has open-sourced Java.

I recall clearly a period of activity on java.net where many (including me) voiced their desire to see Java open-sourced.

Where Swing should Venture

An increasing number of frameworks are appearing that I find particularly interesting. They're web AJAX frameworks where the details of the HTTP communication and of all the HTML and JavaScript on the front-end are hidden behind a Swing-like API.

Here are some of these new frameworks:

I'll have Spam, Spam, Spam, sausage, eggs, and JMatter please..

For some reason, I did not catch the wonderful Monty Python Flying Circus episodes in my youth. Recently in the USA on public TV they've started airing re-runs.

A Harness for Swing

I was thinking about this a while back and it struck me as interesting that as a GUI toolkit, Swing is different from a number of other GUI toolkits out there that were born out of the need for creating a graphical desktkop system. Namely, GTK has GNOME (and Xfce), Qt had KDE, and MFC has Windows.

Thought Catalysis

Recently some new ideas have come to me out of activities that I did not expect would generate any. In this blog entry I'd like to enumerate sources or catalysts for ideas, for generating thoughts.

MVC without leaks implies generic VC

How many times have we heard or preached (or both) the important lesson of not having our business logic "leak" into the client tier. Each time we hear it, we nod our heads and say "how true," and get serious for a moment.

Stoked: Not Just for Surfers Anymore

I sometimes enjoy describing feelings a software developer might experience, at certain moments during development. For example, a while back I blogged about "Grazie Signore" moments.