McDonalds is really wanting to get in on the coffee game. How do I know? All the local stores are doing “Free Lattes” all day on Friday. Free? Can you imagine if your local Starbucks had free Lattes? The police would have to direct traffic in front of the stores. We stopped to see if [...]

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Session One was a loser. Automation of MDA to J2EE (TS-7466). While a potentially interesting topic it wasn’t apparent from the description that this was basically a vendor demonstration. Those things should somehow be noted better. Every five years I sit through (as a skeptic) and listen to the model driven generated application idea. I’m [...]

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Wow. Is Sun giving gifts away before they fold? Open Sourcing Java? They also announced Solaris. Last week their leaders said hardware was going to be free (uh, isn’t that Sun’s bread and butter?).

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To say the documentation for Eclipse release 3 is sparse would be generous! I was able to get existing swing code working as a plug-in by creating a view, and then using the SWT_AWT class to create an AWT frame I could add my existing swing code UI to. Worked like a charm save a [...]

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