http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ en Vox Fri, 02 May 2008 10:35:48 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/on-small-classes-and-short-methods.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(James Childers) http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/on-small-classes-and-short-methods.html?_c=feed-rss http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/on-small-classes-and-short-methods.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 02 May 2008 10:35:48 -0700 I took up the challenge posted over at Binstock regarding Small Classes and Short Methods and have to say it was an interesting exercise. Overall implementing these suggestions made for much more readable code, and it was certainly more OO after I... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/on-small-classes-and-short-methods.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e46a77dbe2b00f48d12e3d70001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> java http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/eclipse-os-x-and-soylatte.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(James Childers) http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/eclipse-os-x-and-soylatte.html?_c=feed-rss http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/eclipse-os-x-and-soylatte.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:48:57 -0700 Current revisions of Eclipse prevent the use of SoyLatte, the OpenJDK port of Java 1.6 for OS X 10.4/10.5. There is an open bug about this, and even better a patch for StandardVMType attached to the bug. I've applied the patch and it does indeed w... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/eclipse-os-x-and-soylatte.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e46a77dbe2b00f48ceabdb20003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> java eclipse osx soylatte java6 http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/fanboys-and-the-it-media.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(James Childers) http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/fanboys-and-the-it-media.html?_c=feed-rss http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/fanboys-and-the-it-media.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:16:21 -0700 Here is what I've come to learn from the mainstream IT media: If you prefer Linux to Windows, and encourage its use to others, you are a fanboy and/or fantaic If you prefer OS X to Windows, and encourage its use to others, you are a fanboy and/or... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/fanboys-and-the-it-media.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e46a77dbe2b00e398b22a540003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> media fanboy zealot http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/gnu-screen.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(James Childers) http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/gnu-screen.html?_c=feed-rss http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/gnu-screen.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:05:49 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e46a77dbe2b00e398b220690003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00d09e46a77dbe2b00e398b220690003-50si" alt="Screencap" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I tend to avoid evangelism of any sort these days, but if you are a unix weenie of any flavor and do not use screen then you are, quite frankly, not cool. Screen needs some help to make it more visually appealing, so here's a snippet from my .sc... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/gnu-screen.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e46a77dbe2b00e398b201810001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> unix gnu screen http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/jcaptcha-and-imagefilters.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(James Childers) http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/jcaptcha-and-imagefilters.html?_c=feed-rss http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/jcaptcha-and-imagefilters.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:01:03 -0700 FYI: JCAPTCHA uses the robust set of ImageFilters from JH Labs. These include a WarpFilter, which is what I was looking for but was unable to find. For a while. A long while. Far longer than it should have. The documentation for it could be impr... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/jcaptcha-and-imagefilters.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e46a77dbe2b00e398b170bf0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> java captcha filters http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/merging-css-stylesheets-with-python.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(James Childers) http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/merging-css-stylesheets-with-python.html?_c=feed-rss http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/merging-css-stylesheets-with-python.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:46:24 -0700 Friend of mine asked for something to merge two stylesheets together. I've been dinking with Python here and there when I have the time, and this was the result. It could definitely be improved, namely to work with X number of stylesheets, but it ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/merging-css-stylesheets-with-python.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e46a77dbe2b00cd9737ff424cd5?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> css python http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/three-utils-every-unix-person-should-know.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(James Childers) http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/three-utils-every-unix-person-should-know.html?_c=feed-rss http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/three-utils-every-unix-person-should-know.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 16 May 2007 13:37:39 -0700 There are three applications that come preinstalled with most *nix distros that if you spend any time whatsoever at a bash prompt make life vastly easier. vi/vim - IMHO everyone should at least have basic familiarity with vi. It's damn near alw... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/three-utils-every-unix-person-should-know.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e46a77dbe2b00d09e6c466abe2b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> tools bash terminal.app http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/control-characters-being-ignored-in-terminalapp.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(James Childers) http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/control-characters-being-ignored-in-terminalapp.html?_c=feed-rss http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/control-characters-being-ignored-in-terminalapp.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:11:16 -0800 Occasionally when working in Terminal.app I've experienced strange behavior at seemingly random times where my control characters would no longer be interpreted by the shell. For example, take the following: [1204][macjavadev@Ivan:~] grep -ri asd... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/control-characters-being-ignored-in-terminalapp.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e46a77dbe2b00cd9711bc184cd5?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> osx terminal.app http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/weird-problem-with-ical-meeting-invites.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(James Childers) http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/weird-problem-with-ical-meeting-invites.html?_c=feed-rss http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/weird-problem-with-ical-meeting-invites.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:01:14 -0800 About a week ago iCal started giving me an error whenever I would try and accept a meeting invite. The error was sporadic, only happening about half the time: Someone invited you to an event using an email address that isn’t on your “me” card in... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/weird-problem-with-ical-meeting-invites.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e46a77dbe2b00d4141b5f1f6a47?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> mac osx ical address book http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/macfuse-and-spotlightfs.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(James Childers) http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/macfuse-and-spotlightfs.html?_c=feed-rss http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/macfuse-and-spotlightfs.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:48:24 -0800 I tried SpotlightFS for a while yesterday and was unfortunately not that impressed. It's a nice concept, but still needs work. You are limited to multi-word searches (no booleans) so it's difficult to refine the results such that they are useful. ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://macjavadev.vox.com/library/post/macfuse-and-spotlightfs.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e46a77dbe2b00d09e5011adbe2b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> mac osx spotlight macfuse spotlightfs