Archive for June, 2003

Looking forward to the release of Mambo Open Source 4.5. From the screenshots here and here, it looks very promising, and most important of all, easy to configure, administer and use without requiring a messy or non-intuitive process.

Powergen Italia owns the domain http://www.powergenitalia.com/. Who Represents owns http://www.whorepresents.com/. Goes to show you have to put some thought into your domain name :D.

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The following are installation instructions for integrating JADE (Java Agent DEvelopment Framework) as a managed container in JBoss using BlueJADE. It addresses several issues with group installation, which doesn’t seem to work as indicated in the official installation instructions. I’ve posted them more for reference than as a weblog entry per se. What is BlueJADE? [...]

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Something that could easily be missed when programming in Java is inadvertently exposing the internals of a supposedly encapsulated field to clients of your class. Consider the following naive implementation of a rectangle class that disallows negative dimensions: public final class MyRectangle { private final Dimension dim; public MyRectangle(Dimension dim) { if( dim.height < 0 [...]

Move and redesign

In: Personal

16 Jun 2003

I’ve moved my blog from FreeRoller.net. That is an amazing thing for Anthony Eden to do, providing blog hosting for free to the Java community. Thanks Anthony (who’ll get an email from me requesting a removal of my account)! I’ve redesigned the look of the site to achieve a fresher feel – at least I [...]

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