Archive for September, 2008

New Open Source SwingCommand library released

Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in java, swing | No Comments »

I finally completed open sourcing SwingCommand - an open source library which provides support for the command pattern in Swing. In addition to synchronous commands, it provides support for asynchronous ... Read more..

Fix for log4j bug 45704 – Failed to load logging.xml for JRE 1.5.0_16 and Webstart

Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in java, swing | 1 Comment »

This bug affects webstart applications which use log4j and xml configuration files (e.g. log.xml rather than log4j.properties) in JDK 1.5.0_16 (and later..?) I think this problem has been occurring since a ... Read more..

Getting the NSLU2 to work with vista (why is vista configuration such a mess?)

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 Posted in hardware, rants and opinions | No Comments »

I just switched to using a Linksys NSLU2 NAS server for my home network. It's a great little thing - you just connect USB drives to it and set up network ... Read more..