Thursday, 24 April 2008

Is OpenSolaris an Indicator for the OpenJDK Project?

Through Wired.com I ran into this blog entry talking about what Sun did since open-sourcing Solaris. Immediately this reminded me of the feelings I had even during last years JavaOne as Sun announced the open-sourcing of Java and especially afterwards when I tried to provide a little enhancement for the java.net.URLConnection class. I was part (before and/or after) in 4 projects that Sun open-sourced and all of them more or less had the same issues. Most of these issues are based, in my opinions, on two facts:

The open-source project was not organically grown but pushed out by Sun
Instead of coaching the open-source project Sun is still trying to maintain some control over it

keep on reading here

Posted by schaefera at 8:42 PM in Open-Source

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Wednesday, 23 April 2008

Technology that really makes a Difference

In my job and even in field of software and electronic gadgets technology often does not serve any other purpose than serving peoples egos, exhibitionism and narcissism. Well, this week I found some new technology that really makes a difference in peoples' life beyond their vanity and it comes in a field where most people would not expect some ground braking invocation. And here it is the revolutionary Stop Saw table saw that is able to nearly avoid an injury to an operator if he/she touches the saw blade. If you know a carpenter then you probably also know that many of them have lost a finger during their job and so a table saw that can avoid that is worth every penny. If you want to see how that would look like then check out their Hot Dog demo. If you want to see what happened to people check out their saved finger pages.

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Posted by schaefera at 7:22 PM in Personal

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Update: Is Bean Bindings in Swing Dead?

A few weeks has past since I blogged about Bean Bindings and I learned a lot since then. I still cannot update the source object easily but I found ways to hide it from the users of that code. One of the tasks I am working on right now is that I should find a model on how to create UI components like lists, tables, forms etc that can be plugged into any application and then easily configured to work with the rest of the application. More or less the old idea of reusable components but here just limited to the company I am working for.

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Posted by schaefera at 7:01 PM in Java

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Saturday, 19 April 2008

LDAP Head Banging

From time to time I need several attempts with a lot of head banging until I get something right on a Linux system. Since a while I have multiple servers and laptops running at home/office and each of them has its own user database. Therefore changing a password is tricky because I have to remember the old and the new password until I went to all boxes and updated them. Some of these boxes I hardly touch and so I can take some time do to so. That is why I started a while ago to see if I could use LDAP in order to centralize the user account management. So far I can remember at least two fai keep on reading here

Posted by schaefera at 10:26 PM in Linux

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Wednesday, 16 April 2008

Is Bean Bindings in Swing Dead?

In the past few weeks I started to look into Bean Bindings as made available in Netbeans. Bean Bindings is based on JSR 295 and that JSR did not produce anything so far still Netbeans is using it and the Java.net project already release version 1.2.1. So far I am wondering if the idea is more ore less dead because the JSR 295 group did not produce anything and the Java.net project implementation is quite complicated at least for my goals.

My project req keep on reading here

Posted by schaefera at 9:02 AM in Java

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Friday, 11 April 2008

We are back Home again

Uff, after a 27 hour trip back home we can finally relax at home and trying to get over the jet lag. With 3 kids I don't feel the jet lag that much but I am more tired that usual. The vacation were fun, at least for my kids, and we could enjoy the Swiss and Italian cuisine for some time. I think I gained some pounds over there. This week I am mostly busy with getting everything working again, to get our pets back home and to pick up all the loose ends of my work including Guilder for which I did not any time to work on.

Have fun - Andy

Posted by schaefera at 8:25 AM in Personal

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