http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/ en-us 2009-06-24T00:31:16-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2009/06/in_my_other_lif.html ReverbNation profile to share some of it. Of course, I can't resist prefacing a song with a bit about what it's about and how it got written. So I'll embed the player in this blog and tell a story or two.]]> Community: NetBeans timboudreau 2009-06-24T00:31:16-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2009/06/juggy_gives_duk.html Bruno Souza got a whole bunch of us together to participate in creating this short video - how Java Users Groups drive Java - from an unusual perspective :-) Community: Java User Groups timboudreau 2009-06-05T12:56:44-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2009/06/photos_from_jav.html A few photos from around JavaOne, taken with the world's weirdest lens. JavaOne timboudreau 2009-06-03T14:53:25-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2009/05/nio_file_backed.html Imagine. You basically have the problem that Java image data is stored on the heap as giant byte[] arrays and you quickly run out of memory.]]> Community: NetBeans timboudreau 2009-05-31T23:37:56-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2009/05/pong_the_most_t.html One of the first games I ever wrote, circa 1982, was a version of Pong for the TRS-80. Yes, pong - with the two paddles and bouncing ball. Now there's a NetBeans plugin! Community: NetBeans timboudreau 2009-05-31T21:47:48-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2009/05/netbeans_and_it.html Monday night. I'm gathering a bunch of NetBeans core developers, dream team members who build apps on NetBeans and all and sundry to come demo the things they love about NetBeans and give the audience a chance to talk with the people who really make the tools they use.]]> Community: NetBeans timboudreau 2009-05-26T21:11:09-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2009/05/ohlohs_open_sou.html Ohloh is a neat service. But it sure comes up with some wacky statistics... Community: NetBeans timboudreau 2009-05-26T20:56:58-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2009/05/a_library_for_d.html I recently set up a new project on Kenai.com - this is something that has been available in NetBeans for years, and is probably useful to a wider audience. It is a library for taking two java.util.Lists and generating a diff between them. timboudreau 2009-05-12T11:18:39-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2009/05/trademarks_and.html Some thoughts on trademarks and open-source, inspired by an article on the subject in PCWorld. timboudreau 2009-05-10T22:19:33-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2009/05/sneak_preview_j_1.html I've spent the last few months collaborating with the Java Card team to create Java Card plugins for NetBeans. It's not released yet, but here are some screen shots to whet your appetite. Community: NetBeans timboudreau 2009-05-10T13:07:14-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2009/05/perobject_workq.html I've been moving a few of my non-NetBeans-specific libraries that are used in NetBeans plug-ins to Kenai - things like a library for generating diffs of java.util.Lists and so forth - small libraries that Do One Thing Well. This is one I'm debating - is it too esoteric, or is it a problem people actually have out there... Community: Java Patterns timboudreau 2009-05-05T22:05:36-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2009/05/what_do_you_cal.html A few of months ago I blogged about a simple but powerful pattern for working with Objects not key/value pairs - use dynamic proxies to generate an implementation of an interface, which delegates to the backing storage transparently. It's ready to become a small open source project. But what do you call such a thing? Community: Java Patterns timboudreau 2009-05-05T18:45:39-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2009/05/how_evil_would.html Ever want to restrict subclassing for the good of humanity? Community: NetBeans timboudreau 2009-05-01T11:43:17-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2009/05/converting_obje.html simple common library, it's this.]]> Community: Java Patterns timboudreau 2009-05-01T11:33:58-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2009/04/too_bad_about_i.html Now I won't get to surreptitiously replace the NetBeans splash screen with this... timboudreau 2009-04-27T06:43:54-08:00