This article is certainly making the the rounds this weekend,but I found Barry Feigenbaum’s article “SWT, Swing or AWT: Which is right for you?” to be a surprisingly unbiased feature comparison between AWT, Swing, and SWT. It doesn’t change my positions on SWT, but a good read none the less.
After some hemming and hawing, I finally decided to release the Handy Aspect Library. This initial release is based on AspectJ 5 (not JBoss AOP) and contains the JavaBean Aspect and the new SyncModel Aspect. The JavaBean aspect is relatively mature, but the SyncModel Aspect could probably use some more testing, which is the [...]
Can some of Swing threading with rules be managed by an aspect? Maybe, maybe not. I set out a few weeks ago to try and see if I could make long, or GUI freezing, tasks execute off of the Event Dispatch Thread (EDT) and when complete, return the results to the EDT. This page describes [...]
Now I love my Macs and OS X as much as the next guy, but I’ll never foget that it is just a freakin’ machine to do work on. I ran accross a post on MacRumors.com stating that the new MacBooks have started to ship. While this is probably cool news for those who placed [...]
Recently, I started pondering the thought of getting one of those fancy new MacBooks to replace my aging, 800Mhz TiBook. Since Eclipse has been my IDE of choice, I had to wonder; what is the state of SWT for Mac OS X on Intel? Luckily, support is planned for Intel Mac in version 3.2, [...]
Just in case you find the opening ceremonies to be dull and boring, Fox will be airing the final four episodes of Arrested Development. This is indeed a great way for Fox to ensure that viewership for the final four episodes will be low enough to justify the cancellation. This is really too bad, the [...]
If you’ve ever spent anytime using Hibernate, you can most likely appreciate the time the folks on that project have spent putting their documentation together. In my opinion, the Hibernate folks have created one of the most complete sets of documentation for an open source project I have come across to date. In some cases, [...]
Moving sucks, but what sucks more is dealing with Verizon when you move. Recently my wife and I moved to a new location in the same town. At our old place we had phone and DSL service from Verizon. Verizon told us that both services would be active on our move in date. While phone [...]
