JRoller has been very helpful for the past two years but I can't cope anymore with all its limitations and bugs. I have decided to move my blog on a new web site that will also host my photos and Java applications. The new web site is called Curious Creature and you can find it at http://www.curious-creature.org.

I imported all the posts from this blog to the new one. It's now easier to read old posts and the search engine works! You will be automatically redirected in 10 seconds.

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I just got an email from the Swing team telling me they have two open positions. They're looking for a Software Engineer and a Staff Engineer to work on Swing.

I have spent one year working with the Swing team in Santa Clara, California, and I can tell you it's a nice place to work at. There's a lot to be done in Swing and with the recent launch of Java SE 7 development process I guess it would be an interesting time to start working on it.

That's the kind of job offer that makes me wish to finish school very quickly ^^

I recently showed an Aperture-like loupe implemented in Swing. As usual, you guys are way too picky about demos and asked for a couple of fixes :p The following links point to an updated version of the demo. You can now change the magnifying power of the loupe and it will show only the picture that sits directly underneath the mouse cursor. This new version should also fix the bug when the frame was minimized/maximized but I don't know for sure since I haven't tried it on Windows yet.

The source code is available. Keep in mind the goal of this demo is to explain how to use layered panes, not to create a fully functional, bug-free loupe ;-)

I just got the news from Guillaume, Groovy 1.0 has finally been released! I've been waiting for this for a long time and I have now no excuse to read Groovy in Action I promised Guillaume I would read :-)

By the way, I particularly like the Swing Builder provided by Groovy. It lets you create complex layout and UIs in a much cleaner way than usual Java code. It compares to F3 code but I prefer Groovy's approach which seems more natural to me after all those years of Java.

P.S: I also need to learn Grails so maybe I can write web sites with Java technology (after years of PHP, I hate it, Zope is just a joke to me and I never liked the Ruby language.)