Posted in Coding, Java on September 28th, 2006 1 Comment »
I stumbled across this article about my old friend the GridBagLayout today. I for one thought I was in a very small minority when it comes to actually using and liking the GridBagLayout. Well, Jeff Friesen proved that he is also on my side when he wrote Harness the Power of Java’s GridBagLayout. The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
Today, I bit the bullet and bought the everydaycoder.com domain. I also setup my own blog so that I have more control over the look and feel as well as standards compliance. I feel like I just graduated from kindergarten to first grade. It does feel really nice to put my own shinny cool header [...]
Posted in Leisure on September 16th, 2006 No Comments »
While working on large projects, it’s good to have a distraction
every now and then. My son and I can’t watch this video enough. If you’re into
Rube Goldberg Machines, you’ll love this video. It’s a full 13 minutes long and is absolutely mesmerizing.
I hope you enjoy it. I can’t get that jingle out of my head. [...]
Posted in Tools, Windows on September 1st, 2006 No Comments »
I use Subversion for source code management now on all my projects. Before, I used to use CVS like everyone else. Recently I discovered some things about subversion that I hadn’t known.
On Windows, I *can* use putty as an ssh wrapper for subversion (svn+ssh://). This was a welcome surprise, because I was using TortoiseSVN which [...]
