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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