If you want an excellent introduction into Java 3D, look no further than here. I was following the tutorial I found there to get started with what looked to me as the perfect way of spending a Friday evening, when, somewhere at the end, it told me that: (…) it does not mix very well [...]
This one is not really an eye-opener, but I use this blog to record and archive stuff I find out at some point, so here’s a post about getting NetBeans Platform Applications use GTK instead of Metal. Since the Swing Application Framework (SAF) has been deprecated and developing NetBeans Platform Applications (NPA) is the new [...]
Today, I found this in my mail: The “success kit” included a lifetime membership card for (…) an elite group of Oracle Certified Professionals (…) And I had hoped for a coffee pack But still. Excellent.
I’m currently learning Enterprise Java Beans 3 using Debu Panda et al.’s book EJB3 in Action. The material is not very hard but there’s lots of stuff to memorize, and the best way to do that is by running the code examples and trying to change it (and break it). The easiest way to do [...]
Since the start of this month I have been looking for a new job, because my current position at the Research and Documentation Centre of the Dutch Ministry of Justice will end January 31st next year. Barely a day after leaving my resume at nationalevacaturebank.nl, I got a few dozen calls from recuiting agencies and [...]
The weirdest thing happened while I was programming with my favorite IDE, Netbeans 6.8, today. When I work on big applications, I usually split them in two or three projects (usually model, view, controller). Then I import the projects in the main application project. At some point Netbeans suddenly told me it couldn’t find a [...]
UPDATE (2009-05-09): The ‘laf’ option to the Netbeans executable should be preceeded by a double dash (–laf) instead of a single one. Corrected. From the first moment that I used Linux, some 9 years ago, I was a KDE user. When KDE 4 came, I switched to Gnome, because I found KDE 4 unstable and [...]
For a small msx adventure game I’m creating, I needed a map with three islands. A big one and two smaller ones. I’m not going to tell you what kind of game it is and if I will ever finish it (because chances are I won’t), but that’s not the point here. The point it, [...]
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