I’m generally not a fan of new year’s resolutions, but I think that it’s important to make time specifically for setting some short-term and long-term goals. I’d like to share some of my more major goals for 2009.
I’m hoping that posting them here might keep me accountable. You can pummel me on twitter if I’m not keeping good on my promises if you like.
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After seeing all of the hype surrounding JavaFX and it’s recent 1.0 release, I decided to go ahead and play around with it a bit. Here’s a bit of what I learned, and a cool little holiday app you can run.
JavaFX is basically a way to develop much cooler GUIs with much less effort than Swing and have your app run almost everywhere. I would argue that it’s not as easy as Flex BUT it allows gives you more control.
If you want to try it out yourself, just run it here (with JavaFX installed) or grab the NetBeans JavaFX project, unzip it, and import it. Here is the code: Continue reading
A year ago, my good friend Casey Watson suggested that I try using a personal wiki to keep track of my programming knowledge. This turned out to be great advice, so I’ll be sharing how I use one and how to start your own.
In a phrase: to keep a your web of knowledge accessible from one place. You need a place to put your meeting agenda, important project/server links, and even a to-do or waiting-for list. Not only can you store a lot, you can tag it, search it and otherwise customize the crap out of Tiddlywiki.
You are not going to be able to remember everything you need, keeping links and information in email folders just doesn’t cut it. You can easily keep track of your meeting notes, DB schema diagrams, bug lists, blah blah blah… Continue reading