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Cool things in a cold day
Nice surprise today: * ITO time spent on YaST. No success yet with [Wt][4]. It does not provide something like Qt’s QSocketNotifier, or glib’s g_io_add_watch which integrate themselves with the event...
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On Google’s Android mobile platform
I have spent quite some time studying and testing [Android][1], the new mobile platform from Google. It is hard to understand people complaining about Java fragmentation because Google’s technical...
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Welcome 2008
Some random thoughts about the world, and the past and following years. ### Digital society 2007 was quite active on the digital rights topic. The inability of the industry to catch up with the...
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rpm packaging java software
You may know, that rpm supports (is that the right name?) “named” dependencies. That is, you can require arbitrary strings other packages provide, no matter if that arbitrary string is a package or...
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adding Eclipse extensions in 3.4?
If you get : “Cannot launch the update UI. This installation has not been configured properly for Software Updates.” Go to Window, Preferences, General, Capabilities, Classic Update. There you can...
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On Java, Maven, JPP and rpm
Java on Linux has been always a “special” topic. They don’t mix well. The mindset of Linux distributions is very different to the Java world when it comes to build software. This is understandable as...
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A better Java: Scala or Xtend?
I have been playing with two languages recently: Scala and Xtend. Xtend and Scala have some similarities, but don’t let this make you think they are that similar. Both are JVM based languages offering...
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Scala & Vaadin 7 & gradle
Vaadin 7 is out since some time. I want it to give it a try together with Scala and my favorite build system for Java: gradle. So, based on this skeleton, I updated it to work with Vaadin 7. Mind that...
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2013 Personal Learning Retrospective (Software)
At work, It was an intense and exciting year: I got the chance to focus more in one product. Grew and focused on building the “new” team. Lot of contributions from the team to upstream. And the...
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