A public thank you to Sun Microsystems for choosing
to side with its community, to side with the open-source community on Java.

An increasing number of frameworks are appearing that I
find particularly interesting. They're web AJAX frameworks
where the details of the HTTP communication and of all
the HTML and JavaScript on the front-end are hidden behind
a Swing-like API.

For some reason, I did not catch the wonderful Monty Python Flying Circus episodes in my youth. Recently in the USA on public TV they've started airing re-runs. So it was not until maybe a few months ago that I...

I was thinking about this a while back and it struck me as interesting that as a GUI toolkit, Swing is different from a number of other GUI toolkits out there that were born out of the need for creating...

Recently some new ideas have come to me out of activities that I did not expect would generate any. In this blog entry I'd like to enumerate sources or catalysts for ideas, for generating thoughts. Revisiting things you already know:...