New Countertops and Sink

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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...

Frederic Jean | Comments | Jan 21, 2008

Creating a Remote Mercurial Repository

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...

Frederic Jean | Comments | Jan 14, 2008

Released REM 1.3.0

I pushed REM 1.3.0 for NetBeans to SourceForge earlier today. This release addresses the following issues:

Upgrades the ZK libraries to 3.0.1
Updated the internal DTD to match ZK's XML Schema
Include support for the zkforge components.
Registers...

Frederic Jean | Comments | Jan 1, 2008

When A Project Goes Dormant

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...

Frederic Jean | Comments | Dec 29, 2007

This is just too funny to pass

Frederic Jean | Comments | Dec 6, 2007

Vote for Java 6 on Leopard

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...

Frederic Jean | Comments | Nov 3, 2007

Talking about JSON at the Boulder JUG

I'll give a presentation about JSON at the Boulder JUG tonight. I'll introduce JSON to the audience, talk about consuming and producing JSON, discuss some of the security implications around JSON before talking about some recent developments. This is...

Frederic Jean | Comments | Sep 11, 2007

Enjoying The Rich Web Experience

I am now in California. It should be sunny, but I can hardly tell since I'm engrossed into the most excellent Rich Web Experience conference put together by the No Fluff, Just Stuff team.

The focus of this conference is on building rich internet based...

Frederic Jean | Comments | Sep 8, 2007

We Are Out!

The CCAA has finished the review of the adoption application documents registered with our office before June 30, 2006.
-- CCAA Front Page

I was reading through my hundreds of feeds when I came across this post from the Rumor Queen's blog. Our login...

Frederic Jean | Comments | Jul 27, 2007

Better Living through Multicast DNS

Parallels is a very nice way to run more than one operating system at once on any Intel based Mac. You do need a fair amount of memory to be able to run it comfortably. Still, going to an after-market retailer for the extra memory is well worth the...

Frederic Jean | Comments | Jul 10, 2007

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