Archive for November, 2007

Netbeans is Now My Favorite Java IDE

Sorry eclipse, but it was bound to happen. I installed eclipse on my laptop awhile back and had been suffering somewhat harsh just trying to prevent it from running out of PermGen space (yep, read all the docs, and verified that I was giving it more memory through the about section… it saw my changes). [...]

JRuby, Groovy, and Other Dynamic Languages On the JVM

Lately (thanks to Spring) I’ve been toying with dynamic languages a little bit running on top of java. I haven’t delved into JRuby on Rails yet, but I have been using them as scripted beans injected into java classes, largely in a way that exposes an application API to either a scripted environment, or to [...]

Beautiful CSS

Been suffering a complete lack of inspiration lately trying to come up with a new layout for my blog. Everytime I sit down and start coding or applying a theme, I just plain out lose interest or don’t come up with something that grand. Anyhow, I’ve been scavaging the the net for some layout inspiration, [...]

One Step Forward, Three Steps Back: The Sad State of Captioning and Online Video

There’s one thing that has always made me disgruntled about online video… the unavailability of captions for the hearing impaired. What astounds me is that, as long as streaming video has been available, content providers either still haven’t found out a way to provide closed captions or just have a complete lack of interest in [...]

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