“The classpath is dead“ … that’s what Mark Reinhold (Principal Engineer @ Sun) said at a general session during JavaOne 2009. It’s the type of statement that should resonate with any of us who have been victims of classpath/jar hell. Mark announced this in the context of reviewing the new language features due to be [...]

JavaOne officially starts tomorrow but today Sun has kicked off CommunityOne. Which is a more open source focused and free conference that precedes the bigger event.
The main theme this year is cloud computing. The presentation today has been about showing several vendor solutions in the areas of virtualization and large scale application deployment that is [...]

Last December I did a presentation about JavaFX in Spanish for the Panama Java User’s Group (JUG). This event took place in the city of Chitre, and was a lot of fun to participate in, specially since it gave me a chance to visit my native country. The presentation aimed to serve as an introduction [...]

The other day I saw a Java interface with well over 300 methods (with no inheritance). It’s one of these interfaces that is a single point of entry into a system, and I’m partly to blame. Really didn’t think about how the API should scale, and now that there’s years and years of development [...]

 
So the other day I’m looking at somebody’s code and notice a class name that caught my attention; “GenderEditor”. I think it was just your normal JTable class to show a “gender” property, but I thought it was kind of funny because the class name implied you could use this program to switch a user’s [...]

No, I’m not proposing my brand new Java logo replace the latest one from Sun. As a matter of fact it’s hardly a good logo, and seems more like a book cover, but for some reason a very similar logo (the one mine is based on) was selected as the official one for Ruby.

People [...]

I like Apple, it’s a highly innovative company with great products. I passion for programming was developed as a kid when I had an Apple //c. I own a couple of iPods and wouldn’t mind having one of those cool MacBooks. A few years ago, and at this year’s JavaOne, I noticed lots of [...]

 
When I launch Netbeans 5.5, it seems I’ve installed some version control module that produces these two dialogs whenever I start the IDE. I still can’t figure out what the program wants me to do here. First of all, it has to be a bug and not a feature that it’s popping up 2 modal [...]

 
I uploaded the first version of the “magnetic desklet”. If you have AB5K installed, it should install and start by clicking/downloading this:
http://sellmic.com/download/MagneticDesklet.desklet.
I have a blog entry that describes the concept of what this is trying to do (not everything is implemented), and another post on the desklet dev list with more details. The short description [...]

At work, I spend a lot of time talking about usability, and often find that people think I’m just talking about the aesthetics of a particular application. Usability is much more than that. At its essence, it’s a way to ensure that a product is really solving the needs of its intended users, in [...]