Soronthar's Software Development Diary
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As I said somewhere else in this site, I’m passionate when it comes to programming, seeing it as a craft to be perfected. It is no surprise, then, that I became a confessed Agilist. Something happened today that made me think about what I think…
Lately there has been a lot of buzz in twitter about TWiki vs Foswiki. Given that there are some inacuracies in both sides, I would like to put some facts so you can form an opinion by yourself. The main point is that Peter Thoeny,…
Today I was trying to create an equivalent of displaytag. During the exercise I found out few things a didn’t know about the behavior of JSP tag files.
While getting my daily fix of feed, I found this post on javablogs, describing a “bug” that crawled into the code because a design decision. The problem they actually had was conceptual one, more than technical. The Comparable interface is meant to be implemented if…
I was working in the same application where I found the previous quirk. This time I tried to make a cell renderer put a background color in the cell, to no avail. I even tried to explicitly return a JLabel as the cell renderer, with…
I have been bitten. ListSelectionListener.valueChanged is called more than once when a selection in a List/Tree/Table is changed. After some googling, I found out that I’m not alone.
I was doing some regexp work on one of my projects, when suddenly this well-known and hundred-of-times implemented code right from the javadoc, failed: StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer(text.length()); while (includeMatcher.find()) { String includeFile = includeMatcher.group(1); String s = readTemplate(includeFile, area,topic,skins,false); includeMatcher.appendReplacement(result, s); } includeMatcher.appendTail(result); text = result.toString(); A java.lang.IllegalArgumentException was thrown. Thanks…
The first post I made with ScribeFire, had “Powere by ScribeFire” appended at the end. I wanted to turn that down, so I started to browse the site. In one Comment for the release note i found this tip: To disable the “Powered by ScribeFire”…
Just in case someone else got bitten by this, the password to be used to post from a blogging client is not the same password used to login into the MT installation. Thankfully, everything is explained in the SixApart site. Just a note: the setting…
XmlGridLayout is a LayoutManager that seeks to provide all the power ofGridBagLayout with the simplicity of an HTML table. Also, it tries to bea way to separate the layout declaration from the component declaration.