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 what is still to come.
More …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. This week, I present the solution.
More …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 definitely worth a look.
More …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.
More …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 to upgrade the framework, without having to change anything to the theme that is using that framework.
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