fabriziogiudici's blog

Since we have more time for JDK 7...

... what about JSR 310 (Date & Time API)? It was excluded since it was not stable enough for the deadline, but maybe now it could make for it?

Posted: Nov. 19, 2009 06:42 PM

Using Apple Keynote to create presentations

No, this is not a tutorial about Apple Keynote, but a first impression from me, who have just used it for the first time.Historically, I've always made presentations with Powerpoint (up to 2001) and OpenOffice Impress (since 2001). So far so go

Posted: Nov. 12, 2009 05:23 PM

forceTen 0.5.0 released

forceTen has gotten the first public release and it's now possible to download it both as a binary application and as a project to compile from sources (in addition to the cloning of the source repository). Also, I've set up the mailing lists, a user

Posted: Nov. 9, 2009 10:41 PM

Fixing two problems with Maven + Mercurial + Hudson: second take

In the past weekend I've been able to improve the settings for automated Maven releases that I've blogged about about ten days ago. Peter Mount complemented the information with some practical examples on how to use that stuff invoking Maven with the

Posted: Nov. 9, 2009 02:46 PM

You can read my Hudson configuration

After the latest upgrade of my Hudson instance, I noticed that a new option in the security matrix appeared: it allows anonymous visitors to have a (read only) look at a job configuration, if the administrator allows it. I think it's a great feature

Posted: Nov. 9, 2009 04:07 AM

Fixing two problems with Maven + Mercurial + Hudson

Today I've made some improvements with my Mercurial + Maven + Hudson setup - and reached a new level of karma, being able to do automated releases. Let's go in order. First let me recap what happens with the Maven release plugin (mvn release:prepare

Posted: Oct. 29, 2009 08:48 PM

Kick your bugs in the ass!

Just installed a fundamental Hudson plugin.

Posted: Oct. 29, 2009 07:08 PM

First public statement by Oracle about NetBeans? Or not?

Masoud Kalali just pointed me and other NBDT fellows to this document by Oracle, which contains some more details about the future of many Sun products after the buy is completed. One paragraph is relevant to NetBeans:Oracle has a strong track record

Posted: Oct. 28, 2009 03:00 PM

Elmo, a Semantic Entity Manager

My last post about my use of semantic technologies in my projects dates back to several months ago - it's high time I get on, also taking the chance of a presentation I've held a couple of days ago at the JavaDay Verona. Today I'm going to

Posted: Oct. 27, 2009 12:26 AM

Getting rid of MVC

A few days ago I started a series of post about one of the idioms I'm using with my NetBeans Platform projects, which is the "Pluggable TopComponent". It is the result of a few months of design exercises started with MVC. As I mentioned in my first p

Posted: Oct. 26, 2009 03:37 PM