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Human BehaviorPosted by editor on October 6, 2008 at 8:01 AM PDT
Hinting what you're working on is only natural You can hardly help but give away the nature of what you're working on when you're blogging. Whatever interests you will surely be what you blog about, so even if you're not talking about your project, per se, it's hard not to talk in general about the project domain, your ideas and beliefs, etc. Thing is, most of your readers probably won't see it coming anyways. Case in point: a few weeks back, Kirill Grouchnikov was pontificating in general about the widespread use of ribbons in Microsoft GUIs. In one blog entry, Ribbon reaching beyond Office, he wrote, "The ribbon component is quickly becoming the new standard for Microsoft applications. A significant break away from the traditional menu-toolbar approach that has reached its scalability limit faced with ever-increasing amount of features in the Office suite, it is poised to become the main UI concept in the upcoming Microsoft products." So, OK, Kirill's got his eye on where GUIs are going in general. Good trait for a guy developing Java GUI libraries, right? What I didn't read into this was how fully, and how quickly, he would apply this interest in ribbons. In his most recent blog entry, he's followed up with an overhaul of ribbon support in Flamingo, which he details in Flamingo ribbon component: application menu button and taskbar. "I’ve been relatively quiet on this blog for the last couple of weeks, but i have some good news to share about the Flamingo ribbon component - it now provides the cross-LAF support for application menu button and application taskbar. The ribbon is a fairly complicated container, and while release 3.1 has made great strides towards providing basic functionality, there are significant gaps when compared to the original Office 2007 command bar. The plans for release 4.0 (code-named Fainnear) are to close these gaps, and the latest development drops allow interested applications to test the application menu button and application taskbar." Guess I should try to read the Pushing-Pixels.com tea leaves a little more carefully if I want to know what's coming next in Flamingo and Substance. Also in Java Today, The Aquarium has posted a wide-ranging collection of items related to java.net's favorite continuous integration engine, in Hudson Roundup - Polls, Awards, Comparisons, Ruby, Grails and C++, Sonar, JBoss Portal, Courses. Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart writes, "My last Hudson roundup was back in May (hudson+adoption). Adoption continues to be very strong, and there are plenty of interesting links, although I didn't try to catch up with all the backlog." Maurizio Cimadamore has posted some guidance to the Inside Javac blog for Diagnosing Raw Types. "Raw types - generic type whose actual type parameters are missing - have been introduced in JDK 5.0 in order to provide better support for migration compatibility. Since raw types can lead to heap-pollution, their use is strongly discouraged, and generally considered as a poor programming practice. However javac does little in order to prevent the programmer from accidental usages of raw types." Roberto Chinnici has posted an Update on the schedule for the Java EE 6 Platform in today's Weblogs. He says, "with JAX-RS 1.0 reaching final approval stage, it's time for an update on the overall Java EE 6 schedule." Curtis Cooley has some guidelines for Writing Great OO Code Day One. "There's no shortcut to experience. Writing good object oriented code takes experience, but here are three practices to help you get off on the right foot day one with even the grumpiest of gray beards." Finally, Cay Horstmann says you should Know When to Fold. "I demonstrate the usefulness of the nifty "fold" operator in Scala and ruminate on functional programming support in blue collar languages." This week's Spotlight is on java.net communities participating in Sun's Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program have announced their initial winners. The OpenJDK Community Innovators' Challenge gave its gold award to Clemens Eisserer, silver to Neal Gafter, and bronze awards to the teams of Stephen Colebourne and Michael Nascimento Santos, and Roman Kennke and Mario Torre. The NetBeans Innovators Grant Contest selected 13 projects, singling out two gold award medalists and two silver award medalists for "meeting high standards of quality, usability and demonstrating potential for future growth." Finally the GlassFish Awards Program also announced its winners, awarding its grand prize to Ullrich Hafner, and its second prize to Michael Bien.
In today's Forums, jayaraj_g123 wants to know
How to set startDir dynamically in multiFileUpload of Sandbox. "I am using multiFileUpload of Sandbox (risb:multiFileUpload). It is working perfectly.But when i click on AddFiles button, always it points to the C Directory. I was looking is there any way to point to the previously uploaded folder.Is it possible to set the start directory(startDir) to previously uploaded folder in the client machine."
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