http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/ en-us 2008-06-24T14:40:25-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2008/06/new_address.html How many weblogs does one person need? gsporar 2008-06-24T14:40:25-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2008/05/javaone_2008_re.html I was on a panel at the May 2008 Houston Java Users Group meeting where we discussed JavaOne 2008. gsporar 2008-05-28T20:54:03-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2008/05/ts6000_improvin_1.html Finally have a chance to blog about JavaOne; first up: a recap of our technical session. gsporar 2008-05-28T14:30:41-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2008/04/if_its_tuesday.html I had the good fortune to visit Brazil recently and meet many nice people scattered out across a great country. Along the way I managed to demonstrate some of the new features coming in NetBeans IDE 6.1. gsporar 2008-04-27T19:02:23-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2008/03/return_to_big_d.html It is one year later and I got invited back to do another presentation for the Java Metroplex Users Group. The topic this time: memory leaks. gsporar 2008-03-14T17:06:56-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2008/03/is_that_shortcu.html Last month I wrote a blog entry on a feature that seems hard to discover: Hippie Completion. That led to a question: Is there a way to determine if a keyboard shortcut is currently assigned? gsporar 2008-03-09T17:20:50-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2008/03/are_applets_bac.html Ken Russell thinks so. He provides some interesting evidence. gsporar 2008-03-09T17:08:31-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2008/02/netbeans_on_ope.html Actually, I should call this entry "NetBeans on OpenSolaris on VirtualBox on Windows Vista." :-) gsporar 2008-02-27T18:32:46-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2008/02/hidden_hippie.html "Hippie" completion continues to be one of the best features of the NetBeans IDE's editor - and also one of the hardest to discover gsporar 2008-02-05T15:44:11-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2008/01/more_ruby_tuesd.html Actually, one of them was a Wednesday, but the point is the same: I enjoy talking to Rubyists and showing them the tools available in the NetBeans IDE. gsporar 2008-01-30T15:02:32-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2007/12/a_dynamic_holid.html The annual Austin Java User Group holiday party was held for the fourth time at Sun's office in Austin. The main topic was DTrace and its use in finding performance problems in Java applications. gsporar 2007-12-12T10:47:31-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2007/11/ruby_tuesday.html I enjoyed visiting the Houston Ruby and Rails User Group - and it was on a Tuesday. gsporar 2007-11-16T10:21:06-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2007/10/bayou_city_leak.html I did my "memory leaks" presentation for the Houston Java Users Group. As usual, it seemed to strike a chord and led to some interesting discussions. gsporar 2007-10-25T20:02:20-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2007/10/next_tab_please.html I stumbled across another nice feature in NetBeans IDE 6.0 today: a couple of additional keyboard short cuts for moving between tabs. gsporar 2007-10-10T06:35:41-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2007/09/unmark_occurren.html There is a nice feature in NetBeans IDE 6.0 that can be a bit overwhelming, but you can tune the options to get the exact behavior you want. gsporar 2007-09-21T15:28:31-08:00