• Sun finally charges something for Java, so what’s next?

    by  • May 29, 2009

    Just read an interesting news that Sun charges for the support when using the new GC called G1. Sun always had trouble making money from Java. With Oracle’s influence, things will change. I am looking forward to finding out what announcement it will be on next Tuesday during JavaOne general session. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/05/29/1711203/Java-Gets-New-Garbage-Collector-But-Only-If-You-Buy-Support?art_pos=1

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    JavaOne 2009

    by  • May 27, 2009

    It will be JavaOne next week. It had been a great experience in the last couple of years as I got a chance to meet many old and new friends each time. I will present a TS and a BOF this year.  See the schedule below. TS-4706 Bringing JTable to Extreme, June 6, 2009, Friday [...]

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    My First MacBook Pro

    by  • April 26, 2009

    After waiting anxiously for several days, I finally got my first MacBook Pro (MBP). From the moment opening the box, I just kept wowing when I slowly uncover this beauty. Wow #1: The box likes a briefcase v.s. all other PC laptops I got came in a cheap carton box. Wow #2: There are not [...]

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    Want to share your table screenshots?

    by  • March 3, 2009

    I got a technical session for JavaOne 2009 to talk about JTables. I knew JTables and JIDE Grids are used very widely among JIDE customers. So I am very eager to collect some screenshots from real applications to show what tables look like in the real world. It doesn’t have to be JIDE Grids. It [...]

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    Mac OS X Icon Set

    by  • August 27, 2008

    Just so you know, we release a new icon set for Mac OS X. We are also running a promotion to sell all three icon sets (XP, Vista and Mac) at only $300, which is a very good deal. It is a good chance if you want to own your own icon sets.

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    Vista Icon Set

    by  • June 30, 2008

    After a few month preparation, we got one more icon set ready. It is for Windows Vista this time. It has the same number of icons as the first XP icons except it gets bigger. The Vista style is more realistic than illustrative, but not quite photorealistic. Icons have a maximum size of 256×256 pixels (comparing [...]

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    Arrow key support in ButtonPanel

    by  • June 22, 2008

    There is one missing feature in ButtonPanel. That’s the arrow key support. On Windows (probably on Mac as well), people get used to use left or right keys to navigate among buttons on a horizontal button panel or up/down keys for vertical button panel. However Swing doesn’t have that. For example, in the JOptionPane, arrow keys don’t change [...]

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    Support Synthetica L&F in JIDE

    by  • June 17, 2008

    I had been working closely with Wolfgang in last couple of months or so trying to support Synthetica L&F in all JIDE product lines. I am glad to say we are finally there. You can find some nice screenshots of our demos under various Synthetica themes below. They are all taken under JIDE 2.2.8 release [...]

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    Slides and demo source code for my JavaOne 2008 BOF session

    by  • June 6, 2008

    As I mentioned before, I had an interesting BOF session for the this year JavaOne. The title is “Workaround Swing Bugs”. Even though it was conflicted with the afterdark party, there was still a decent number of people showed up. Since several people asked for it, I post the slides and the demo source code below. Slides [...]

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    Discussions on Swing, RIA and JavaFX

    by  • May 24, 2008

    Kirill just posted an interview with me on his blog on Swing, RIA and JavaFX. It is a series of interviews with Amy Fowler, Mikael Grev and myself. I guess Kirill probably will have more interviews after the first three. Interesting discussions.

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