Monthly Archives: February 2010
60 of the Best Dance Tracks, Served in 6 Easy Shadowbox Portions
About 10 days ago, De Morgen, a Belgian (Dutch) newspaper, published the 60 best dance tracks of the last 10 years. 6 DJs and radio celebrities take their pick of what was good in the last 10 years. Unlike what you might expect, the lists where not littered with fluffy pop stuff. Most of it [...]
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Analysis of the New Streamhead Design
If you’re visiting the site, you will undoubtedly have noticed the new design. If you’re following the site via the feed or e-mail, now is a very good time to click through and check out the new incarnation of Streamhead. In this post, I go over what went in to creating the new design and [...]
Posted in ChangingMedia 3 Comments
Maven, Spring, Vaadin and Google AppEngine, Happy Together
In true open source spirit, I scratched my itch. No, not that itch. If you complain about open source projects, you have all the tools at your disposal to fix the problem yourself. Last week, I posted that it’s not straightforward at all to make Spring, Google AppEngine (GAE) and Vaadin work together in Eclipse. [...]
Posted in JavaMedia 16 Comments
Interactive Fiction Design Competition
As a lighter aside, here’s one more way to get into interactive fiction. The game-genre that has been going strong for 30+ years. JayIsGames, my favorite casual gameplay site, is holding an interactive fiction competition. The goal was to create an “escape” themed interactive fiction game. The quality of the entries is excellent, and most [...]
Posted in OldskoolMedia 1 Comment
Google AppEngine, Vaadin, Spring, a Match Not Made in Heaven
Over the last month, I’ve been learning more and more about Vaadin. I’ve also become more and more convinced that this could be the future of rich Internet application development for Java. Vaadin is an incredible powerful framework that solves many of the front-end difficulties developers have to deal with. In this regard, Vaadin is [...]
Posted in JavaMedia 19 Comments
3 WordPress Theme Frameworks
The latest craze in WordPress are theme frameworks. There’s a reason so many people are talking about and creating them. A theme framework allows you to quickly and easily create a new custom theme, while building on top of a very sturdy foundation. And the addition of child themes to WordPress has made it possible [...]
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Degrafa, Graphics Framework for Flex
Flex and ActionScript combined give you a very powerful environment for programming graphics intensive application. The technology makes it easy to design and create animation rich interfaces. And now Degrafa adds yet another compelling choice if you want to easily create complex graphical interfaces.
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9 of my Best Posts On Java, a Streamhead Anthology