http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/ en-us 2008-05-09T14:00:04-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2008/05/need_a_little_r.html I see themes, three of them, at JavaOne this year: REST, Ruby, and NetBeans JavaOne joconner 2008-05-09T14:00:04-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2008/05/creating_openof.html Creating OpenOffice extensions and plugins is simplified with NetBeans wizards. JavaOne joconner 2008-05-09T10:33:23-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2008/05/windows_is_a_bi.html You can create Java apps for a multitude of platforms as long as you're developing on Windows XP. JavaOne joconner 2008-05-08T00:56:24-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2008/05/modularity_in_t_1.html Deliverance from Jar hell is available soon. JavaOne joconner 2008-05-07T13:37:40-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2008/05/reviewing_netbe.html The NetBeans IDE can be compared to a Swiss Army knife; it offers many different tools, and you're almost guaranteed to find something you like or soon need. Community: NetBeans joconner 2008-05-06T15:17:01-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2008/05/free_open_sourc.html Open source Linux is for hippies? JavaOne joconner 2008-05-05T22:05:23-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2008/04/top_10_desktop_1.html Here are the top 10, must-see Java Desktop sessions at JavaOne 2008, the Desktop sessions that will influence you the most in the coming year. JavaOne joconner 2008-04-23T15:58:52-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2008/04/encoding_uris_a.html The JavaScript layer has its own lossy character conversion points. One of those is the escape function. Programming joconner 2008-04-22T23:48:44-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2008/04/character_conve_1.html You'd think this sort of problem would be resolved by now, but it's not. It's still almost impossible to quickly and easily migrate an application from the too common default Latin-1 to UTF-8 character set encoding. Programming joconner 2008-04-13T09:07:12-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2008/04/another_solutio.html Recently I mentioned a potential problem when saving source files in a non-Unicode charset encoding. The potential data loss is significant for large projects. After thinking about the problem a little more, I have a potential solution, a solution that... Community: NetBeans joconner 2008-04-05T21:55:19-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2008/04/call_for_partic.html The Internationalization & Unicode Conference is the technical conference for software and web internationalization engineers. If you have a product that implements the Unicode standard or an idea that will help others work with this standard, share your knowledge. The... joconner 2008-04-03T00:04:38-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2008/03/netbeans_61_utf.html The NetBeans 6.1 beta uses the UTF-8 encoding (a Unicode encoding) as its default for project configuration and source files; that's good. But allowing data loss is a bad thing, especially when it can be avoided or discouraged so easily. Community: NetBeans joconner 2008-03-30T02:59:54-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2008/03/will_blog_write.html These are trying, desperate times. Let's make a deal for the JavaOne 2008 conference! JavaOne joconner 2008-03-26T00:01:00-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2008/03/beans_binding_a.html I am enthusiastic about Beans Binding, but a coworker threw a wet towel on me. Programming joconner 2008-03-23T10:53:18-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2008/03/videos_are_grea.html Notice all those great videos on java.sun.com these days. I think they're great but inaccessible for a couple reasons. Accessibility joconner 2008-03-20T14:54:57-08:00