Hackerdude

As a prior XBase programmer, I find the XBase Appreciation page very interesting. (more...)

Cedric Beust has some comments on his experiences using JavaCC and Antlr. (more...)

Using the instructions here, you can use GCJ to create SWT applications that are fully native, even if you wrote them in Java..

This article at developerworks describes how to use the new Look and Feels for JDK1.5, which include a metadata-driven look and feel controlled by an XML file (Synth)..

And this is why I think the eclipse platform is going to catch on..

I recently started putting together an archive of old stuff. There's nothing that will humble you more than looking at old code from, say, 5 years ago.

Wow this is embarrasing :-).

Lately I've been fooling around with more platforms at home. I think now I have all the important ones represented (MacOSX, Windows, Linux and Solaris Sparc), and I'm probably about to blow a fuse unless I start distributing these things around the house (I think I already blew a NIC in one of the boxes).

Anyway, I was told by a Machead friend recently about Fink and I have to say I am really impressed with it.

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Linus has switched. He certainly does think different :-).

Finally I have a little time for myself and I'm setting up my solaris box at home. I have found blastwave invaluable. I am actually liking installing binaries on my solaris box better than I like it under Fedora Core 3. Great job!.