Being a parent isn’t always easy, because kids still don’t quite get what’s really wrong or what is just a simple prank. I have a 3 and a half year old son, and boy, does he make me go mad sometimes… But there are sometimes when you can’t do anything but laugh at the imagination […]
Google has just released the beta version of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). The GWT is a Java-based toolkit that lets you create AJAX-enabled pages using Java. The main idea of the toolkit is that once you create your app following the GWT API, you will then compile your Java classes into Javascript and HTML, […]
I just saw the live webcast for JavaOne’s General Session on the future of Java, and I must say I’m a little saddened by it. I never thought I’d ever hear the words "Visual Basic for Java" mentioned anywhere, even less so in such an important event as it is JavaOne. In my very personal […]
The last couple of weeks have been very interesting, as I was in the last stages of a project at work. I no longer hate WSAD (Websphere Studio Application Developer) so much. I still find a lot of missing features from the latest Eclipse releases (WSAD is based on Eclipse 2.x), but I found the […]
Well, it seems that the series of articles comparing all the different frameworks using Simon’s initial set of requirements is expanding. This time, Geert Bevin, the creator of RIFE, has done the same thing, using his own framework. I’ve always found RIFE very interesting, but a little daunting for new users. It uses a lot […]
UPDATE: I changed the BlogApplication code based on feedback from Igor (one of the Wicket developers). It should now work against the latest trunk from the Subversion repository. Well, my last entry had some very good feedback from you. It seems people really are interested in learning Wicket, and someone even told me that his […]
In this article, I introduce the Wicket web framework by using the same comparison requirements as the ones posted by Simon Brown on his Java.net blog.
I was given an Advanced Readers Copy (ARC) of the upcoming novel The Tesla Testament by Eugene Ciurana. The book isn’t due to be published until october of 2006, but I wanted to share my impressions of the book. The novel centers around freelancer Francis Montagnet, who besides doing his regular jobs as software consultant […]
If you’re like me, you’re using gmail for all those mailing lists that you have to be on, even if you don’t actually read most of the mails sent there, and have a label (and a filter) for each of the lists, so the mail skip the inbox and go directly to the label ‘folder’. […]
I just saw a very funny video entitled Fear of Girls. It’s the ‘Mockumentary’ (Mock Documentary) of a pair of truly geeky… er, geeks. The most funny (or sad) part about it, is that I understood most of the terms (LARP, Brujah clans, Druids, etc). I guess I also passed thru that phase sometime. Thankfully, […]
