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The Changing Face of Software Development in Japan

Our Night Out with Heroku Japan & Friends

During our trip to Japan last month we got to enjoy an evening out with the Heroku team. We've enjoyed using their platform for years across many projects, so it was good…

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Added by Daniel Leuck on April 17, 2013 at 5:00pm — 3 Comments

What Was Your First Programming Language?

Following up on last week's " What was your first computer?" question (the

VIC-20 was a clear winner), this week's question is "What was your first programming language?" Thinking back, I initially thought it was Level Basic… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on July 14, 2008 at 2:00pm — 38 Comments

Hacking BeanShell with JavaCC - Building a Language

A few months ago

Clifton Royston posted an excellent entry titled

Recursive descent parsing with BNF grammars. This inspired me to write about

JavaCC, my favorite parser generator. Today I finally got around to putting together some examples. Academic articles on parser generators and… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on March 31, 2008 at 3:30am — 1 Comment

Paint Delegates in Java Swing and .NET WinForms

A few months back I blogged about an excellent Swing look and feel called

Nimbus. Nimbus is entirely vector based and does all its painting using delegates that can be layered and shared. Painters are used to draw tiled images, gradients, stripes, glass effects, etc. They also support Photoshop-like filters. Painter Example:

    MattePainter matte = new MattePainter(new Color(21, 21,…
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Added by Daniel Leuck on March 30, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

A 15 Minute Intro to C# for Java Developers

Intro

This is a quick intro to C# for Java developers. Why should you care what those C# guys are doing? If you are a pragmatic developer you know its good to have a few languages in your toolbox. If you are a member of the anti-Microsoft crowd, think of it as a way to "keep your enemies closer." :-) The C# language features added to Java 5 make it clear Sun and the JCP are taking this approach.



C# is a very close relative of Java. Its inventor,… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on March 29, 2008 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

Java Icon Format & API

After a month long hiatus from coding I decided to jump back in and finish a project I started a few years ago. Java has always lacked a proper icon format such as Window's

ICO and OS X's

ICNS. A modern icon format and API should support: 1. 32 bit color (ARGB) 2. Vector and bitmap images (multiple sizes for bitmaps) 3. Bundling of icon variants in… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on March 24, 2008 at 1:00pm — 5 Comments

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