Archive for August, 2005

Nice Icons!

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

If you’ve been looking for a great set of high-res icons for your applications that look great on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, then take a gander at the Crystal Icons from Everaldo.com. These icon sets, originally developed for the KDE project, provide just about every type of icon you need. The icons all [...]

Why I like Nikon dSLRs

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Canon just announced the EOS 5D which is a (relatively) low-cost, full-frame digital SLR camera. Canon has made some truly great cameras in recent years, but I find Canons current lens/body line up is bothersome. A digital SLR basically puts a digital sensor in a camera body that used to hold film. The digital sensor [...]

Busy Weekend

Sunday, August 7th, 2005

A wedding and a birth, all caught on compact flash Friday, I shot my buddies wedding. It was hot as hell outside but I think we still managed to pull off some nice shots. The same day, my other buddy’s wife gave birth to an 8.5lb baby boy. We caught up with them on [...]

JavaBean Aspect Page Up

Saturday, August 6th, 2005

After about a month of tinkering with the concept, I finally posted a page detailing how I was able to use the JBoss AOP framework to make plain old java objects support bound properties so I could use them with the JGoodies Binding framework. You can read about the Java Bean Aspect here. It’s still [...]

Nice Weather

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

We had some really nice weather last week that resulted in some spectacular sunsets. I popped off a few shots that I’ve posted over in the photo section. This shot was perhaps the most intersting of the bunch, but I’m not sure the shot does it justice (stoopid wires!). But now it’s getting hot and [...]