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what i read about today on the computer internet: OpenProj

I was excited to read about OpenProj just now. This helps out the opensource desktop by providing an alternative to MsProject, innit.

But i got even more excited when i noticed it's a Java/Swing app, as can be seen from the OpenProj CVS. It's always interesting to invetigate how relatively large and serious Swing apps are cobbled together, and to try to pick up a few tips. So I look forward to checking it out, and maybe writing a blog entry or two, should i be so inspired.

Having said that, i've managed precious little time for anything serious since leaving Cape Town a month ago. I've visited friends and family in Johannesburg, London, and currently Russia. In a couple of weeks, Germany, and thereafter (hopefully) i'll be cycling across South of France, over the Pyrennes, and across Northern Spain!? That's still just a dream that i can't believe might actually happen next month, so...
    I'll be cycling sans my XP notebook obviously, and generally be totally disconnected from anything except my thoughts, which i hope will be centered on the background for a science-fiction book i wish to try to write... Maybe as a blog rather than a book!? Mmmm... crumbled up scifi blog entry thingies...

But i do have a Swing article to finish and publish next week or so, called Gooey Table Model. After that, i'll be under the radar for a month or two...

So has anyone tried out OpenProj? (I haven't cos i'm on an antiquated Windows98 machine right now, with a painfully slow dial-up connection, and no java...)

Hey the other thing that i invetigated today on the computer internet thingymajig was the H2 database. But i'll ramble incoherently about that tomorrow...

Comments

• You might want to check out Open Workbench -- it's a fairly mature replacement for (and often an improvement over) MS Project.

  It's not pure Java, unfortunately, and has a big chunk of C/C++ code that appears to require Windows, but it's used by quite a few people and sites.

  Posted by: meltsner on September 05, 2007 at 10:53 AM

• And you may also want to have a look at GanttProject which is also pure Java/Swing application with functionality more or less equal to OpenProj

  Posted by: dbarashev on September 06, 2007 at 08:36 AM

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