Netuality

No, I am not a seasoned PHP programmer and I do not intend to become one. But we do live in a harsh economy where all IT projects are worth considering, thus my occasional incursions in the world of of PHP-driven websites.

It you have ever written even the smallest standalone app using SWT and Jface library, then you must know (and hate!) org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.AssertionFailedException. This exception has the very bad habit of substituting the initial one without keeping any trace of it. The official explanation is the ...

According to David Heinemeier Hansson, the RAILS 1KLOC (!) web framework written in Ruby was used to develop Basecamp, a mildly complex project management webapp. What’s fascinating is the Ruby code used to develop Basecamp is only 4KLOC (according to the RAILS document) and was developed in less than 2man ...

My first contact with Tapestry was more than 18 months ago. Back then, I was interested to find a web framework for integration with our custom Avalon-based (using the now-obsoleted) Phoenix server*. The web interface was ment to be backoffice stuff, for simple administration tasks as well as statistics reports ...

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Please note that ‘antclipse’ is now part of the ant-contrib at Sourceforge, under Apache licence.

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I hate duplicating information manually – besides, it’s a known fact that duplication is classic code smell that tells you to refactor. This time it’s not Java code, but something ...

“The project was complex-the USS Monitor had 47 different patentable inventions on board at launch. (Think you have integration problems?) When the pieces arrived at the shipyard from the foundries, they fit together poorly and much retrofitting had to be done. This affected the schedule and standards of quality. Thus ...

While I think that Codehaus is an exceptional provider of open-source software (some of the projects hosted there are really shining), I’m a little horrified by all their Maven-generated sites. It’s not because I’m ignorant to Maven usefulness, but BECAUSE I’ve worked extensively with Maven since ...

You can tell that my Palm m105 is not exactly bleeding edge. Both by its rather bland dark ugly look (completely out of fashion compared with today’s shiny brigh colored semi-transparent PDAs) and its feature list which does not include webcam, MP3 player, Internet browsing and Office compatibility. However ...

This evening, I was searching for something completely unrelated. In the lines of how to use Eclipse CVS library (ccvs.core) in a standalone “eclipse-less” context (is this possible, by the way ?). Stumbled upon this interesting project called Hipikat, from the Software Practices Lab of University of British Columbia, CA ...

wx4j is a Java wrapper around the *tried and tested* wxWindows widget framework. The main idea may be similar with one which gave birth to SWT : hide native widgets behing a [more or less] thin layer of Java. By “native” I mean widgets for Windows flavours, Linux/Unix with GTK ...