Monthly Archives: November 2006

I 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 […]

Status of my next GIMP book

Wed November 22, 2006 in GIMP tagged GIMP / lwn / Writing (updated 6386 days ago)

There 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 […]

Working with JNI

Wed November 22, 2006 in Software Development tagged java / jni / Linux / Writing (updated 6386 days ago)

Ballmer: 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 […]

Ballmer: Linux â€œInfringes our intellectual propertyâ€ | Hardware 2.0 | ...

Fri November 17, 2006 in Linux tagged intel / Linux

The 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 […]

Learning to hate Java

Fri November 17, 2006 in Software Development tagged java / jni / Writing (updated 6390 days ago)

I’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 […]

Discovery of the TCP Half-Close

Wed November 15, 2006 in Linux / Software Development tagged java (updated 6390 days ago)

Just 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 […]