Handy-URI-Templates 1.1.7 Released
Yesterday Handy URI Templates 1.1.7 was released which fixed a few uritemplate-test issues as well as some URI encoding fixes. Hat tip to tekener for those fixes. With that out of the way, I’ll be focusing on 1.2 which will…
Handy Aspects Moved to GitHub
A few years back, I dabbled a bit with Aspect Oriented Programming and dorked around with JBoss AOP and AspectJ. I created a few aspects an threw them up on Java.net. Over the years, I never really kept up with…
Handy URI Templates 1.1.2 Released
After a few weeks of tweaking, I put out a new release of Handy URI Templates. What’s important about version 1.1.2 is that it is now being tested against the uritemplate-test suite started by Mark Nottingham. Most importantly, it is…
Fun with URI Templates and the Facebook Graph API
URI Templates can make interacting with the web APIs like the Facebook Graph API a little easier. Here, I’ll show you how you can use URI Templates to create request URIs into the Facebook Graph API using the Handy URI…
Adobe XMP Packet Extraction for the Aperture Framework
When it comes to manipulating photographs, I live in Photoshop. One feature of all Adobe products that I like is the ability to annotate images and other documents using their eXtensible Metadata Platform, or XMP. XMP is a collection of…
Semantic Web Icon and Logo Stencil for OmniGraffle
I’ve been doing a lot of diagrams related to some of the projects that I have doing with RDF and other Semantic Web technologies. Rather that cut and paste PNG icons into OmniGraffle, I decided to start putting together a…
Eclipse 3.5RC3 Gives New Life to SWT on OS X
I’ve been a long time user of Eclipse, but also a critic of SWT – the UI toolkit that Eclipse uses. While Eclipse has always been a very productive tool on OS X, SWT has always lagged a bit behind…
Eclipse on Mac Java 6 Reveals More SWT Shortcomings
Two years ago, I raised a few points about some of the short comings of SWT. Because of it’s native bindings, SWT makes the Java mantra of “write once, run anywhere” quite a bit more daunting. For the most part,…
WordPress Update Gone Bad
It’s always annoying to upgrade WordPress and then to find out 2 days later that all of your links now return a 404 error. All this depsite the fact that it was all working just fine after the update. It…
Better Questions Get Better Answers
Did you ever have that teacher or professor who always tried to tell you that: “there is no such thing as a stupid question?” This may have been true in school, but in a professional software engineering environment, I can…
