Just another idiot’s ramblings

A simple method to open PDFs in a new window while displaying validation errors in the original window. The PDF window will not open if there are validation or other messages.

A phone screen is typically used to screen applicants for a job, but it gave me enough information to make a decision about not wanting to work for the company.

Currently, Frame2 does not work on Macs. This, of course, is due to the fact that there is no (easily) available Java 6 implementation for MacOS. I’ve been trying to decide if this is an issue or not. Reasons why it might be an issue: I use a Mac for most of development, and I [...]

The Eclipse plugin has just been updated, and a new plugin has been added to the mix. The new plugin allows users to create Frame2 projects with web services support by adding all of the required libraries and initial configuration. Also in the new plugin are two wizards: one for creating new Responders and one [...]

As the title says, the Eclipse plugin for Frame2 is almost done. Of course, “done” is a relative term. In this case, it means that the plugin has been updated to work with the latest version of the framework, including the updated DTD. Unfortunately, it also means that it still has the same limitations that [...]

Version 1.3 of Frame2 is officially available. The framework can be downloaded here, and the sample applications are available here. Work on the Eclipse plugin continues, with a (hopeful) release date in the next week or two. //

This seems to happen to me no matter what project I’m on. I try to implement a simple (or not so simple) feature and end up exposing at least one bug that’s been hiding around for quite some time. As an illustration, I was adding a feature to Frame2 today to allow some parameters to [...]

Frame2 is almost ready to be released as a new version. I may still make some changes, but it’s definitely in Release Candidate stage now. There are only a few things that I may add before testing the heck out of it: Upgrade unit tests to JUnit 4. There are a lot of tests, especially [...]

I’ve been mucking around in the codebase, cleaning up pieces of the API that annoy me. Some bright person thought that it was a good idea to have a method that returns an Iterator to access a collection. I’ve been cleaning up all of these methods, changing them so that they return an actual collection [...]

I’ve mentioned before that I’m using FindBugs to help make sure that the Frame2 code is up to snuff. The Eclipse compiler can catch a lot of things, bug FindBugs has some neat tricks up its sleeve to find things that Eclipse can’t. FindBugs uses static analysis of the code to search for patterns that [...]