Screen capture with LICEcap
For my last JavaFX articles, I wanted to show the animated results directly at this website. At the time being, there’s no guarantee that a visitor can execu...
Extendable Navigation Pane in JavaFX
This week, I implemented a navigation pane in JavaFX that can be used to navigate within an application. It has four buttons with icons. At first, only the i...
Extendable Search Pane in JavaFX
Yesterday, I implemented an extendable search pane in JavaFX. Having searched the web for a ready to use component, I found that most of the search panes hov...
SSCCE - Short, Self Contained, Correct Example
Reading stackoverflow and blog articles about development, I came across many code snippets and examples. Also, as the author of blog articles and stackover...
JUnit tests with Ant and Hudson
One of my more persistent current problems is the setup of JUnit tests in our Hudson 3.1.1. After days of try and error, I still couldn’t manage to make it w...
I Love Bridging Days
The first two workdays of 2014 where a Thursday and a Friday. This was great because many people used these as bridging days. I didn’t. I got up early as usu...
Writing Great Software vs The Reality of Commercial Software Development
In the past year 2013, I made several proposals to improve software development in my project. Some of them got implemented, like having agile meetings with ...
An Item of Our Team Culture - The Gollum.
The other day I returned from lunch and I found Gollum sitting on my screen. Gollum is a little toy figure that is given to a developer in case he caused pro...
Updating an OSGI Based Software System from Java 6 to Java 7
In this article, I want to describe how we managed to switch from Java 6 to Java 7 and get rid of some issues we found along the way. We use Eclipse 4.2.2 an...