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Spent some time tinkering with Eclipse’s preferences today as I was really missing the Vibrant Ink theme for TextMate and Eclipse is looking pretty now…

The only thing that I still couldn’t figure out was how to change the color of the folding/breakpoint bar next to the gutter. And I’m really starting to like the Monaco [...]

We just never learn, do we?
String fromLocationCode;
Location fromLocation = request.getFromLocation();
String toLocationCode;
Location toLocation = request.getFromLocation();
// Do stuff to toLocation
First, my (extremely talented) colleague makes a similar copy and paste blooper, and one day later I repeat the same mistake. But, but… Select boring code, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, it’s sooo easy…

J2SE 5.0 is out

In: Asides| Java

1 Oct 2004

New Features and Enhancements in J2SE 5.0. I miss Java. I’m having a rough time getting used to wxPython (mostly because of its lack of documentation).

A long shot, but do any of you Java programmers think an applet that uses JMF can be deployed and run on a client that doesn’t have JMF installed?
I think the chances would be higher if instead of an applet, a Java Web Start application was used instead. Bundling the JMF libraries could work, but [...]

Update: Dave has an excellent solution to the ButtonListBar .NET control problem.
Firstly, the .NET question: does anybody know how to get this Button ListBar Control to work?
I was trying to get the.NET Button ListBar control into my VB project’s toolbox – I followed these instructions:
To use the control, add either the ButtonListBar.vb or ButtonListBar.cs [...]