Archive for November, 2006
Status of my next GIMP book
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006I finally finished the production edits for my next book, The Artist’s Guide to GIMP Effects. Now the book is in copy edit. I’ve received a sample chapter in final layout form. Woohoo! Although this is close, the book still has an April publication date. I don’t know squat about the publishing side of things [...]
Working with JNI
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006There are a lot of examples of writing a simple JNI library for calling from a Java class. Unfortunately, few of them explain how to push your JNI class/loadable library into a package of it’s own. I ran into this problem today while trying to integrate a JNI library I’d written outside of our ant-based [...]
Ballmer: Linux “Infringes our intellectual property†| Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com
Friday, November 17th, 2006Ballmer: Linux “Infringes our intellectual property” | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com
If I may speak for Linux users everywhere: Hey Ballmer. Bite me.You’ll stop me from using Linux when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. You’re IP is a (to quote another moron) "non-starter". There are those of us who use Linux but don’t [...]
Learning to hate Java
Friday, November 17th, 2006The project I’m working on has a Java client that communicates with a JBOSS server. The client launches applications on the local host, communicates with them using XML and sends data from the applications back to the JBOSS server using JAX-RPC (via Axis, at the moment). In order to manage those applications, the client needs [...]
Discovery of the TCP Half-Close
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006I’m working on a Java project at work that has a TCP-based server component that accepts XML messages from clients. I implemented an XML handler that I pass to the SAXParser class that takes the XML as an input stream. The client sends the XML message and then waits for a reply on [...]
Wordpress plugin: Performancing
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006Just thought I’d give a plug to this very cool Firefox plugin. It provides browser side blog editing and automated submission. What it does is provide an editing area (with minimal highlighting and formatting, but sufficient for quick posts, plus HTML editing mode) in your browser without having to log into your blog. [...]
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