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In: Web development
20 Jun 2003Looking 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.
In: Fun
19 Jun 2003Powergen 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.
In: Java
17 Jun 2003The 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? [...]
In: Java
17 Jun 2003Something 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 [...]
In: Personal
16 Jun 2003I’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 [...]