http://weblogs.java.net/blog/eitan/ en-us 2007-03-10T23:42:11-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/eitan/archive/2007/03/desktop_matters.html An essential ingredient for a community is periodic face-to-face meetings. Although events such as JavaOne have served the purpose in the past, this event was stricly about the Desktop, and (unlike JavaOne) was very small and most intimate. I most... eitan 2007-03-10T23:42:11-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/eitan/archive/2007/03/im_excited_abou.html I'm excited about the upcoming Desktop Matters conference, which takes place March 8-9 this week in San Jose, CA. This conference is a first of its kind, focusing on Swing and other desktop technologies. Community: JavaDesktop eitan 2007-03-06T10:57:18-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/eitan/archive/2006/12/that_open_sourc.html A public thank you to Sun Microsystems for choosing to side with its community, to side with the open-source community on Java. Community eitan 2006-12-04T10:38:16-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/eitan/archive/2006/06/where_swing_sho.html An increasing number of frameworks are appearing that I find particularly interesting. They're web AJAX frameworks where the details of the HTTP communication and of all the HTML and JavaScript on the front-end are hidden behind a Swing-like API. Community: JavaDesktop eitan 2006-06-29T09:04:52-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/eitan/archive/2006/06/ill_have_spam_s.html For some reason, I did not catch the wonderful Monty Python Flying Circus episodes in my youth. Recently in the USA on public TV they've started airing re-runs. So it was not until maybe a few months ago that I... Community: JavaDesktop eitan 2006-06-22T23:09:40-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/eitan/archive/2006/05/dreaming_of_a_s.html I was thinking about this a while back and it struck me as interesting that as a GUI toolkit, Swing is different from a number of other GUI toolkits out there that were born out of the need for creating... Community: JavaDesktop eitan 2006-05-04T05:36:19-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/eitan/archive/2006/05/thought_catalys.html Recently some new ideas have come to me out of activities that I did not expect would generate any. In this blog entry I'd like to enumerate sources or catalysts for ideas, for generating thoughts. Revisiting things you already know:... eitan 2006-05-03T07:42:25-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/eitan/archive/2006/05/mvc_without_lea.html How many times have we heard or preached (or both) the important lesson of not having our business logic "leak" into the client tier. Each time we hear it, we nod our heads and say "how true," and get serious... Programming eitan 2006-05-02T07:03:01-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/eitan/archive/2006/05/stoked_not_just.html I sometimes enjoy describing feelings a software developer might experience, at certain moments during development. For example, a while back I blogged about "Grazie Signore" moments. This past weekend I attended the Northern Virginia Software Symposium and was fortunate to... Extreme Programming eitan 2006-05-01T13:18:33-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/eitan/archive/2006/04/a_better_way_to.html Each time I look at the task of constructing a business software application, I see tremendous repetition. Community eitan 2006-04-20T16:33:51-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/eitan/archive/2006/02/proposed_annota.html I think these should make for a nice extension to the existing Java 5 Annotation API: From an Annotation, one should be able to navigate back to the programming element that it annotates. For example, a method annotation clearly marked... Community: JDK eitan 2006-02-15T15:27:51-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/eitan/archive/2006/01/skip_the_compil.html It seems to me that many issues that come up in Java stem from the "I don't want to have to recompile my code" argument. All kinds of design decisions stem from it too. We end up with systems that... Community: JDK eitan 2006-01-17T14:19:55-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/eitan/archive/2005/12/ubuntu_review.html Approximately in June or July of 2005, I started weaning myself off of my powerbook G4, and learning the Gnome environment under Ubuntu (v5.04, now v5.10). Overall, it's been a terrific experience, and it's looking like I've come here to... Community: linux.java.net eitan 2005-12-14T11:58:55-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/eitan/archive/2005/12/an_epiphany.html Everyone stands behind their favorite web browsers. Firefox definitely appears to be at the forefront. But then you come across people who prefer Camino, for example, which is a web browser that uses the Gecko layout engine but taylors... Community: linux.java.net eitan 2005-12-14T09:48:43-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/eitan/archive/2005/12/humane_interfac.html Every so often I go and read the wisdom of elharo over at cafeaulait.org. So today I came across this specific entry discussing "humane" interfaces: http://www.cafeaulait.org/oldnews/news2005December7.html Here is a snippet from elharo's blog entry: "More buttons/methods does not make... eitan 2005-12-14T08:20:24-08:00