http://sellmic.com/blog Augusto's corner of art, code and fun Mon, 19 May 2008 01:20:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://sellmic.com/blog/2008/05/18/my-javafx-presentation-at-panamajug-2007-javafx-en-espanol/ Click on image to go to YouTube video So last year around October I started to get into the RC airplane hobby, buying a simple 2 channel Firebird Commander 2. That plane was literally "gone with the wind" and I replaced it with a nice 3 channel Super Cub. The Super ... http://sellmic.com/blog/2008/05/01/parkzone-t-28-trojan-maiden-flight-with-video/ I'm not going to brag too much, but I may be the only user in the world with a monitor capable of -1x-1 screen resolution. Makes me feel special! Now if I could only find a game that supports this resolution, perhaps Duke Nukem Forever? http://sellmic.com/blog/2008/04/18/bug-of-the-day-negative-screen-resolution/ An article on treehugger has an interview with Paul Kim, VP of marketing for the Mozilla Corporation. The Mozilla marketing folks have decided to coin the term "organic software" in order to raise awareness of some of the other benefits of Mozilla besides its list of features. Here is Paul's rationale ... http://sellmic.com/blog/2008/03/26/organic-software/ 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 ... http://sellmic.com/blog/2008/02/28/the-maximum-number-of-methods-in-a-class/ Monica's latest party had a fun "super star" Hanna Montana theme, and I made her this electric guitar piñata. We had a lot of fun making it, because of the shape there was no need for balloons or any messes with flour. I basically just used a box ... http://sellmic.com/blog/2008/02/28/hanna-montana-guitar-pinata/ We all went to Disney's Magic Kingdom last weekend, and I like this picture we took of the castle at night. Makes it look a bit spooky. http://sellmic.com/blog/2008/02/24/cinderellas-castle-at-night/   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 ... http://sellmic.com/blog/2008/02/15/genderrenderer-gendereditor-and-unfortunate-class-names/ Two people sent me this code blooper the other day, again, class and parameter names have been changed to protect the identity of the offender(s). public SomeObject( boolean lowSetting, boolean highSetting, boolean currentSetting, Color lowColor, Color highColor, Color currentColor, Color otherColor) { super(); lowSetting = this.lowSetting; highSetting ... http://sellmic.com/blog/2008/02/15/the-constructor-that-doesnt-construct-blooper-of-the-day/ Last post of the year. I haven't updated the blog in a while, had kind of a longish vacation from work and was taking a bit of a break from the internet. In the middle of that, I had a very good trip to Panama and spoke at the corresponding ... http://sellmic.com/blog/2007/12/31/2007/