I have been back at Sun for almost a year now. Still, there are a few things that I have yet to take care of. Things like unsubscribing from the Sun Alumni Yahoo! group. Or moving my RSS feed back to blogs.sun.com.
Many Java projects accumulate Jar files. Their numbers just grow until you are not exactly sure why or whether a Jar file is still in use. Traditionally, you answer the question of whether you still need a specific file by removing it from the class...
Our old countertops where in really bad shape, and it was driving my wife to insanity (or so she claims). We had done everything we could think of to extend their life. We painted them, we glued the old formica...
I wanted to play with the metaprogramming abilities of Groovy. So I started a new project in NetBeans and created a Mercurial repository to version it. I had a few files committed eventually.
I am really nervous about keeping code in a single location...
We use the ZK web application framework on our project at work. It was selected before I came back to Sun. ZK in itself is a pretty decent web framework that would allow JavaScript averse Java developers to write an Ajax-like dynamic web application...
I just couldn't wait... I looked up my tracking number on the Fedex web site and realized that the package had arrived at Sun's Broomfield campus. I locked my screen, made my way to the mail center and picked the boxes. One of these boxes contained my... Read More...