JTable Frozen Columns
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via wiki.java.net
This example demonstrates how to create a user interface that displays a table with "frozen" columns. Frozen means it is not effected by the... more »
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Timelapse CSS
bloid via matthewbuchanan.name
When building website templates, I’m constantly switching between a view of my CSS code and a view of the page I’m working on in a browser. At my most... more »
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Properties: A Matter of Privacy
bloid via graphics-geek.blogspot.com
For someone coming from the Java world, the way that properties work in ActionScript3 requires a mental shift. AS3 properties are pretty cool, but... more »
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Jamie Zawinski: Backups
Hello, this is a public service announcement. I am here to tell you about backups. It's very simple.
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line-height: abnormal
bloid via meyerweb.com
Here’s the punchline: the effects of declaring line-height: normal not only vary from browser to browser, which I had expected—in fact, quantifying... more »
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Netbeans Mobility 6.1 is out
bloid via blogs.sun.com
Netbeans 6.1 is finally ready. In this release most important task for Mobility team was to improve NetBeans Mobility stability. We didn't implement... more »
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Useless Hackery: A Scala Quine
bloid via codecommit.com
Warning: This post has little-to-no practical value. Waste time at your own risk… While double-checking the terms for my previous post, I came... more »
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ddcli: An Objective-C Command Line Application Framework
bloid via dribin.org
Writing GUI applications in Objective-C is easy thanks to Cocoa. It takes care of a lot of mundane things like setting up the standard main function,... more »
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Flex Sorted Details
bloid via graphics-geek.blogspot.com
I've been playing around with animation and layout recently, and I wondered how I could combine the two. That is, when a container changes state and... more »
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Dynamic method over* from a Javascript standpoint
bloid via parmanoir.com
In Javascript, you can easily override or overload any method of any object : MyObject.prototype.someFunction = newFunction will set a new class or... more »
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Cocoa Tutorial: Don’t Be Lazy With NSDecimalNumber (Like Me)
NSDecimalNumber is Objective-C’s solution to numbers that need to be very precise. The documentation defines it as: NSDecimalNumber, an... more »
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Meet Flash’In’App – Totally Free Cocoa Framework from Eltima
bloid via blog.eltima.com
Flash’In’App is a free Cocoa framework that lets you load and fully manage Adobe® Flash movies directly from your own applications for Mac OS X.... more »
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Timeframe: Click-draggable. Range-makeable. A better calendar.
I’m just sick of multiple date pickers on the same page.
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Cocoa for Scientists (Part XXV): Core Animation Layer Trees
bloid via macresearch.org
In the first part of this foray into Core Animation, we saw how you can animate the properties of a plain square layer, translating, scaling, and... more »
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Encoding an image to sound
bloid via ohmpie.com
The purpose of this project is to encode an image to a sound that can be viewed with a spectrogram. For some time I have known that musical artists... more »
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Off the [Bubble]Mark
bloid via graphics-geek.blogspot.com
James Ward has been looking into the BubbleMark application recently, and we were talking about some of the strange results we saw in different... more »
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Something odd happened on the way to mousemove
bloid via quirksmode.org
Currently I'm working on a big revision of the Events Compatibility Tables. And no the new table is not yet online because I'm not ready... more »
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Animation Fun with Flex Effects
bloid via doloresjoya.com
I’ve been playing around with Flex’s Effects lately and I thought I would post some of my experiments here. These are just my creative sketches. I... more »
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A Real Time Ray Tracer in ActionScript 3, with Source
This is a real time ray tracer in ActionScript 3, with source code included. There is also a discussion of the optimizations used to get the framerate... more »
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An Amazon EC2 cluster for BLAST searching ?
bloid via pansapiens.blogspot.com
I've just been reading about the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which is essentially a pay-as-you go cluster, based on Xen virtual machine... more »
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Core Animation Tutorial: Dashboard Effect
In our continued efforts to demonstrate different ways to use Core Animation, we have noticed different effects you see in OS X itself that present an... more »
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Occam's Razor and UI Innovation
Our illustrious editor, Chris Adamson's blog on this years Java Posse Roundup gave me pause for thought recently. Chris outlined a session discussing... more »
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Core Animation Tutorial: QTMovieLayer and Image Animation
In my first post I wrote about using NSOperation to grab an image of the current frame of a QuickTime movie while it was playing and save it out to... more »
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Groovy Fizz and Buzz
The FizzBuzz programming interview question raised it's head again. I've managed to resist the temptation to implement it in any languages so far.... more »
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I Repeat: Do Not Listen to Your Users
Listening to users is a tricky thing. Users often don't know what they want, and even if they did, the communication is likely to get garbled... more »
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