java

Working with Java on OS-X: Tips and Tricks

Beren Erchamion
August 5, 2014

Working with Java on OS-X Mavericks/Yosemite can have its pit falls…well working with Java on anything has pit falls, but OS-X has its own quirks. I’ve been working with Java for longer than I can believe – I suppose I…

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J2EE/Java

Window Builder Pro – A Deeper Dive

Beren Erchamion
January 22, 2011

Suddenly I find myself thrust back into the Java client-side development space – that’s good timing since recently I had taken a look at Window Builder Pro. Now is my chance to get deep into the tool. I’m going to…

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Creating A Thick Java Application – in 2009?

Beren Erchamion
May 23, 2009

Has the web become so pervasive that thick client applications are obsolete? Of course we all use a thick client application once in a while – Office, Photoshop, Nero, Eclipse, and CCleaner are good examples, but how many of us…

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Technical Review

Taking a Break with Ubuntu 8.1

Beren Erchamion
November 8, 2008

Sometimes its nice to take a break and goof around with an OS. I’ve used RedHat, SuSE, and Fedora and they are all nice, but there’s a lot of buzz around Ubuntu. I had a laptop lying around and decided…

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J2EE/Java

Going Mobile with RIM’s BlackBerry 8100

Beren Erchamion
September 28, 2008

Recently I’ve been looking at mobile application development with J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition). Programming on mobile devices really is a tricky problem. Screen sizes are all different, memory is very constrained, processors are not exactly “robust”, and even keypads…

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Revisiting Portals with Liferay 5.1

Beren Erchamion
July 24, 2008

I started using portals back BDB (before .bomb) with Plumtree and Epicentric portal platforms. I always believed that these tools had tremendous potential and I still do (a mashup is just a reworked portal, right?). Portal platforms showed a lot…

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