Saliya's Blog
This is my personal blog which contains various technical topics, howtos and some interesting moments of life
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Problem solving and innovation
About three months ago i have posted an interview with Amy Fowler, one of Sun’s senior engineers working on JavaFX. In that interview i had a question... more »
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JavaFX - A Forever Unfinished RIA Technology?
The answer was horrifying. It is still not done and production ready. The JavaFX project has been around for quite some time now, and it is still not... more »
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Java Riddle: Static Members in Inner Classes?
Here's something that can annoy the most experienced Java developers and is guaranteed to make people to mumble in job interviews (if that's your... more »
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SVNServe Vs Apache
SVN will take care of versioning, but if you need to serve it over IP you must use an additional tool, SVNServe and Apache being the two main (only?)... more »
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Vista File Copy Blows - Seek Alternative
We all know that Microsoft cannot estimate file copying time by any means, so waiting five or ten minutes prior to even starting the process is not a... more »
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How To Communicate Design Decisions To Clients?
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This article provides you with 5 guidelines you can use as a designer to “speak business” — even if it’s just to get your foot in the door or land a... more »
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New SQL Injection Attack hits hard with hidden payload
A new SQL injection hack seems to be out in the wild from verynx.cn. The SQL Injection hack uses a CHAR array to hide its payload which will insert... more »
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If JavaFX is a flop will you...
What will you do if JavaFX bombs, now is your chance to say your say.
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All I wanted was a cheap Dell Ubuntu Laptop - Guess I'll settle for a MacBook Pro
What is up with Dell's Ubuntu offerings lately? Even without the Microsoft Tax, Dell Ubuntu laptops are priced comparably to Apple's higher end... more »
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Swing links of the week: July 20, 2008
Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week:
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The JRuby community announces the release of JRuby 1.1.3!
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JRuby 1.1.3 is the third point release of JRuby 1.1. The fixes in the release are primarily performance enhancements and compatibility... more »
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Structures of female defined by a C programmer
There are few cool structures defined by a C programmer describing the femalses. Check them out they are really cool...
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My favorite Eclipse view
Have you discovered the Display view in Eclipse? It can be used to execute any Java code in the context of a debugger. This can be incredibly useful... more »
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Quick Menu Creation with the Java SwingBuilder's SWT-style API
The latest 0.2.DEV release of the Java SwingBuilder introduces SWT-style API for creating menu items in the YAML file, thus allowing you to specify... more »
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Java SwingBuilder 0.2 DEV : added support for SWT-style menu API
Bringing SWT-style menu API to Swing for maximum productivity. Java SwingBuilder is an attempt to bring dynamic language-type productivity to Java... more »
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Chet Haase: Springtime
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Here, finally, is the source code for the Spring effect seen in the video posted on Adobe TV last week. I took my time posting it because I didn't... more »
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SoyLatte To Be Integrated Into OpenJDK
That means that all of the BSD Java changes, including the SoyLatte Mac OS X port, can now be sent to the OpenJDK project, and an official BSD porters... more »
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Edit XML documents using Xeena
Xeena, a visual XML editor, is a generic Java application for editing XML documents derived from a DTD. The editor takes as input a given DTD and... more »
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AWT shutdown and daemon threads
About half a year ago Christopher Deckers had a guest spot post on this blog about a non-daemon WebStart thread that prevents JVM from exiting when... more »
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Stricter checks on EDT violations in Substance
Most of the newcomers eventually find out that Swing is not thread-safe, but this is most certainly not Swing’s “fault”. Other UI toolkits, such as... more »
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Java Swing is not thread-safe
So I just learned that Java's GUI-framework "Swing" is not thread-safe (and neither is Microsoft's "Windows Forms"). What that means is that GUI... more »
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1200 Baud Archeology: Reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a Cassette Tape
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The audio file that was posted two weeks ago is indeed a very important artifact of computer history: It is a recording of the “Apple I BASIC”... more »
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Swing links of the week: July 13, 2008
Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week
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