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Codeplex tools

I've been checking out some of the projects available at codeplex and have been impressed with some of the tools available. They range from the simple (a build tree generator) to the complex (EntLib). I plan a blog entry for each of the tools I have incorporated into my work.

Added by Timothy Little on December 15, 2007 at 10:09pm — 1 Comment

Nimbus: Swing Done Right

I just ran across a new Swing L&F called Nimbus that has renewed my interest in Swing. Its the first L&F that looks as good as OSX and Vista and it is entirely vector based. This is important because the resolution indepence means it looks good on the new high definition screens.

Additionally, all the painting is done with Painter delegates which are easily reused on custom components. This has always been a pain point for swing. Its…

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Added by Daniel Leuck on December 14, 2007 at 10:56am — No Comments

My Engineering Log/Blog

My online engineering log is available at: http://philipmjohnson.blogspot.com.

Added by Philip Johnson on December 12, 2007 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Collective Intelligence and iPhone LinkLens

Join us at Honolulu coders Wednesday night this week in POST 302 at UH Manoa:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/honolulu-coders/

I'll be talking about the new O'Reilly book "Collective Intelligence" by Toby Segaran, as well as showing off my new iPhone LinkLens application.

Added by Sam Joseph on December 12, 2007 at 11:03am — 1 Comment

Is Swing Dead?

I've invested years of my life in Swing development, so its a little scary to even pose the question, "Is Swing Dead?" Bank of America, our largest customer, used to do a significant amount of Swing development. These days all new projects are using WinForms, WPF, or Flex. All of these technologies are very good, and have big marketing bucks behind them (Microsoft and Adobe respectively.) With Sun gasping for air and IBM backing a competing toolkit, what will happen to Swing?

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Added by Daniel Leuck on December 9, 2007 at 11:16pm — 6 Comments

Wirewrapping S100 boards

My first job in the industry was assembling Altair 8800's and Imsai 8080's at Ohio Scientific Hawaii (Jeremy Jones) above St. Louis drive-in on Waialae.

Added by Brian Chee on June 10, 1972 at 4:00pm — 2 Comments