Programming

HyperCard RIP

Reflecting on a software ahead of its time, and its networks

To move or not to move — C#

From the time I migrated from FoxPro/Clipper* in MS-DOS world to Windows (over a decade back), I have been a strong Visual Basic supporter. From time to time, in between I did some coding in C, C++ and to an extend in JAVA when it first came, but pretty much I have been a VB guy…

[GEEK] Bootclasspath

In order to debug a hairy problem, I need to step into some Java system
classes (hashmap.java) HashMap.class is to be found in rt.jar, part of the
standard Java distribution (1.4.2_04) but it does NOT have debug info
compiled in.

So what to do? I think I did a pretty exhaustive set of steps…

Programming Esoterica

As I delve into programming esoterica, in the past I’ve written down little handy items of information that I discover through a lot of work, for possible future reference. 6 months later, the details will have escaped me, and so I have my written notes to refer back to. Well, I thought…

[GEEK] Web Rich Text Editors (Apropos of nothing)

I’ve had occasion to look into what kinds of rich text editors are availble out there, and I thought I’d use this as a place to record the results, for myself, for you, and for posterity.

Basically I am looking for a Rich Text Editor that can…

[GEEK] Is Log4J not doing what you expect, or not finding its properties?

Here’s a handy bit of esoterica: To force Log4J to report on it’s initialization sequence do this:

java -Dlog4j.debug=true

[Geek] Debugging focus problems

Struggling with debugging hairy focus and other UI problems in Swing (Java)? Here’s a handy little tip that I just found out about: 

When running a Java application, type Ctrl-Shift-F1 and the VM will dump the components hierarchy into standard output.

p.s. Editorial…

Program: Currently Listening to now live

Ok, So I have iTunes running here at work, and I have Typepad running. So now the two of them are working together. This program below will update TypePad list of songs with the latest tunes you are listening to. You will need to instert your List ID…