June 24, 2009
Eclipse Galileo has officially been released and with it comes multitudes of changes. Below are my favorites from the Platform, JDT, and Web Tools projects. For more information, including screenshots, see: http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.5-200906111540/eclipse-news.html http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/releases/3.1.0/newandnoteworthy/index.php Mac OSX Builds Use Cocoa and Sheets The platform now uses native cocoa-build SWT widgets, rather than the obsolete Carbon. This brings [...]
June 15, 2009
Great article below on developing for both next generation and current gen browsers. I firmly believe in this approach in developing your site to utilize new features while back supporting older browsers in less dramatic ways. If sites move to this model, users will have a much more compelling reason to upgrade in order to [...]
June 3, 2009
If you use any popular open source technologies, odds are they use or you have used the Apache Commons libraries. The following is a free e-book on using those various libraries. Common Java Cookbook
June 1, 2009
Using the monthly market share analysis by Net Applications, here is my monthly release of browser market share. Firefox: 22.40% (-0.08%) FF 3.0: 20.43% (+0.18%) Internet Explorer: 64.62% (-1.48%) IE 8.0: 6.84% (+2.19%) IE 7.0: 40.83% (-3.68%) IE 6.0: 16.94% (-0.58%) Safari: 8.21% (0.00%) Safari 4.x: 1.13% Safari 3.x: 7.08% (+0.24%) Chrome: 1.78% (+0.36%) Chrome [...]
Nicholas Hagen