Computer Languages and Facial Hair
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008I would not normally link to anything having to do with Microsoft, but in light of the name of this blog, I have to make an exception here. It's just too funny - go see for yourself :-)
Archive for April, 2008
I would not normally link to anything having to do with Microsoft, but in light of the name of this blog, I have to make an exception here. It's just too funny - go see for yourself :-)
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Upgrade on Dell Inspiron 6000 Laptop
Sunday, April 27th, 2008I upgraded my laptop (a Dell Inspiron 6000 with ATI Mobility Radeon X300 video card) from Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" to the 8.04 "Hardy Heron" LTS release. Since my internet connection is through Comcast (who tends to severely throttle large downloads), I downloaded both the main distribution CD and the ...
Spring Collection Merging
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Spring has some really interesting, relatively new (since 2.x) features that have come in handy lately. I'll talk about two of them here, which, when used together, are pretty powerful, and cut down on a lot of configuration xml: First, <util:list> allows the specification of a List more succinctly. Previously, you had ...
MyGWT TableViewer Sorting Bug
Monday, April 21st, 2008
I've been evaluating GWT for building rich front-ends for web apps. Like most folks, I quickly found that while GWT is a very good implementation of a spectacular idea (write your whole application in one language - Java, of course), the set of widgets provided out of the box leaves a ...
An Accordion Panel for Swing
Monday, April 21st, 2008
The 'accordion' panel has become a fairly standard component of 'web 2.0" user interfaces. For the past couple of months at work, I've been working in a Swing front-end, and recently thought that it might be nice to have an accordion component there too. Apparently, this is known in the desktop ...
Roasted Pork Loin Recipe
Saturday, April 19th, 2008I got this recipe from Ed Marra - the former longtime owner / chef of Bell's Tavern here in Lambertville, NJ (http://www.bellstavern.com), and current owner of Wine 54 (sorry, no website). He gave me the recipe, and apologized for it being so embarrassingly easy. It is as easy as he ...
Hello world!
Saturday, April 19th, 2008I'm probably about the last person on earth to start blogging. I guess it's like the punchline to the old joke..."he just didn't have anything to say until now". Well, here it is. Welcome to my blog!
