Substance of Code

Last Thursday, 23th of August, I visited the Microsoft’s Web Day 2006 event at Helsinki, Kinopalatsi. Microsoft and their partners gave good presentations about various new web technologies like Atlas, which is Microsoft’s AJAX library for ASP.NET. There were also cool presentations about the Vista’s gadgets and Windows Presentation Foundation, WPF.
I especially liked the key [...]

I have been thinking about moving my source code to a hosting service like SourceForge or other *Forge site as I would then be able to use issue management systems for my projects. I have used the CVSDude’s Subversion services for now but now that I found out that Google has a service for hosting [...]

I have been using the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet for a few months and I’ll have to say that it is a fantastic piece of hardware. I was quite uncertain that I would keep using it after the “wow” effect but it has indeed become very handy device that I use daily for checking emails, [...]

The NetBeans IDE’s new GUI builder called Matisse have gotten my attention since until this editor I had lost the hope for decent desktop Java application development. Now the project Matisse have taken the GUI building to the same level as seen in recent Microsoft Visual Studios. I’m sure that we’ll see some interesting Java [...]

There was one feature request made for my RSS Reader application. It was suggested that the application should support basic authentication like the one you get with the htaccess file. The feature was actually a lot easier to implement then I thought in the first place. With a few google searchs I found a specifications [...]

Brad McCabe’s editorial in MSDN Flash: “I have seen senior-level programmers very nearly come to blows over T-shirts.”
:) This couldn’t be far from the truth. The picture shows my T-shirt’s print that I aquired by participating the NetBeans IDE community acceptance test (NetCAT 5.0). Now I’m happy to wear my “I’m a NetBeans 5.0 contributor” [...]

I’m currently participating the software development and architecture conference in Espoo. After the first day there have been very interesting presentations about SOA and different tools and methods for agile software development. The one of the key speakers, Tom Gilb, gave a presentation about the evolutionary project management (EVO), which seems to be quite efficient [...]

Microsoft released newest version of Visual Studio development environment few weeks ago. I was more than happy to start using the Visual Studio 2005 right after the release as the new IDE has been improved a lot since VS 2003. It now includes standard functionality that I have enjoyed in another IDEs for a long [...]

NetBeans have released 5.0 Beta versions from the IDE and the Mobility Pack. The interesting new feature in the IDE is the Matisse form editor that even surpasses the Microsoft Visual Studio’s GUI editors in some areas.
What’s new in Mobility Pack 5.0:

Improved Wireless Connection Bridge - easily access web services and other server-side data [...]

As I wrote in my last post, I have been studying and performing software testing lately. Gladly I have been fortunate to be chosen into the NetBeans IDE Community Acceptance Testing program (NetCAT) as now I can closely study how a bigger software product suite is tested and stabilized by very professionals from early beta [...]