development

Yeah, I know it's only been a few hours, but after implementing a few different instances, I quickly decided that async processing was basically required for a performant UI. Your callback function no longer has to return an array of items (it still can, of course), but now it will be passed a second [...]

Before I start, how many of you loyal readers out there use or have used PasswordSafe? If you would, leave me a comment, because I'm curious.
Anyway, I just got an email from a PasswordSafe user that said it was connecting to the internet every time he saved his data file. I'm not a [...]

With cross-platform inline HTML editors all the rage these days, I
though it appropriate to share my experiences with a couple of them
this evening.  I use soEditor and HTMLArea
extensively in my professional work, and like them both.  Neither
is perfect by any measure, but they get the job done, though soEditor's
IE-only stance is becoming more and more [...]

Ant, for those of you who don't know, is a Java-based build system that was designed to replace 'make' for Java projects. I've been using it a lot recently to automate various repetitive tasks that I have to do. Ironically, I've yet to build any software with it.
The two most recent things I've [...]

Eclipse, for those of you who don't know, is an amazing platform for developing integrated tools, which comes with a Java IDE build on the platform. It's all Java, and it's the best IDE I've come across (though I can't say I've used MS Visual Studio).
JUnit is a very lightweight testing framework for doing [...]