gui for configuring java environment

IBM Romania is promoting Linux and is sponsoring a student contest to make a Linux application. I am thinking to make a GUI for configuring java environment in linux.

Is anyone knowing if such GUI already exists ? I am not sure but I think they are, for products made by BEA, JBoss, SAP,etc.

For the GUI I am thinking at swt or java-gnome.

New blog

Last month I started a new blog in romanian language. The feed is for entire planet. I will talk with the administrator to make feeds per author.

java source code

Java5 source code is available for download with a new license.

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Finally, I resolved a weird bug in nmap-sharp. The path after character # is ignored by the Proccess.StartInfo.Arguments.

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A new draft for XHTML™ 2.0 is available.

Nokia and GStreamer

GStreamer is something like Direct{Sound, Music, Show} for Linux. Kind of audio part from DirectX.

Seems like Nokia is playing with Gstreamer for a new cool device.
Details

UPDATE
Nokia 770 Internet Tablet

and Maemo
Maemo is a development platform to create applications for Nokia 770 Internet Tablet

Maemo is using a lot of open source projects like gtk, gstreamear, dbus.

NRobot - autonomous robot fighting game

Remember robocode ?

NRobot is exactly same thing but with C# and the gui is written in gtk#.
If you are on windows all you need is .net framework or mono and gtk# runtime (5.5M).
On linux you need mono and gtk#. I will provide later an ebuild for Gentoo Linux.

UPDATE:
GTK# is only for linux, for windows is used Window.Forms

IBM blogs

Silicon Valley Watcher: Can blogging boost IBM's revenues and reduce layoffs? The computer giant is about to find out as it prepares to launch a massive corporate blog initiative

IBM troups will enter blogshere, and their leader is IBM Chief Strategist.

I read already a lot of IBM blogs, not all are interesting but now I will have from where to select.

Hungarian notation

Hungarian notation seems deprecated.

The Microsoft naming conventions suggest using camel notation (initial lowercase such as someName) for variable names and Pascal notation (initial uppercase such as SomeOtherName) for method names and most other identifiers.

I still prefer hungarian notation for GUI elements like labels, buttons, etc.

What do you prefer ?

Update
More info.

666 line

haha, I think I will leave blank this line.

Unofficial Gentoo Development Guide

If you want to become a gentoo dev you must read this guide.

Latexer need some help on gentoo-dotnet and I am thinking to help him, but before that I need to became a gentoo dev.


Hristos a Înviat!

Linux, http and my blog

Microsoft and the 24-hour Linux phenomenon

Jim Allchin from Microsoft regarding Linux on servers: "Linux is the expected winner".

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Jon Udell on recent discussions about HTTP abuse. Article.

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A long TODO: fix this blog. Is terrible broken. Comments and suggestions are welcomed.
I know that blogroll is too long, is dynamically load from my Bloglines account. I sent some suggestions to them.

religion is broken ?

Islam		83%
Satanism		83%
atheism		75%
Judaism		54%
Buddhism		50%
Paganism		50%
agnosticism		50%
Christianity		29%
Hinduism		29%

Which religion is the right one for you? (new version)
created with QuizFarm.com

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I think religion in our days is broken. If you ask me if I believe in God, I would say yes, but if I answear to similar questions like this quiz, the answear is no.

PS: I am not satanism or islamism. :P

google rulz

Google - My Search History

UAU. this is cool. Google rulz.

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Felicitări Gabrielei pentru articolul din TV Mania.

rss reader with ratings

Finally, I found out about a rss reader with a feature that I always wanted, ratings for feeds.
Let's see how is to read blogs and feeds with this reader. For now seems to be the best rss reader in the market.

Screenshot with Blogbridge:


PS: I see some improvements on Blogger, a recover post button, and save as draft, publish post buttons are rounded.

nice animation

Nice animation.

standarde deschise

Salut,
Cine doreşte crearea unui mediu IT dinamic în România poate participa la crearea unei comunităţi care să sprijine standardele deschise.

java-love

Resources for Websphere.

Nice article about Ant, a powerful toy.

Open-source software written in java can be found here.

gcc4 Release Candidate 1 is out. Can't wait to test it, especially new java open source implementation. Now I can build Eclipse and Gnome-java applications on a open platform.

[/java]

Want to see popular links from http://del.icio.us/ ? Check http://populicio.us/

See ya!

romanian trolls on linux advocacy a

In February I joined Linux advocacy group. Sadly but that group is full of microsoft trolls. Somebody told me that the group was destroyed a long time ago. Today I found out that the trolls are from Romania(Cluj Napoca). Ruşine să vă fie.

Why some people are bashing Linux ? because they are lazy and proud.
They don't want to learn Linux, but they want to remain IT Experts. Instead, they are IT prostitutes.

smoking is evil

Yet Another Attempt To Quit Smoking. The longest period without smoking was about a year.
So, smoke less, blog more. :)

Yahoo! 360° - Home

I will start a blog in romanian at new service from yahoo, called Yahoo 360. If you want a invitation please leave a comment and a valid email.

Thanks Swaroop for my invitation.

BitDefender in Windows XP

BitDefender has announced a deal with Microsoft Romania to include a 1 year license for BitDefender 8 Standard Edition when you buy Windows XP Home Edition in Romania.

Next year, Windows will include Linux. ;)

One of the biggest church in USA switched to Linux. Here is why.

nasa and eclipse

Scott Schram's Blog: Nasa Explores Eclipse Rich Client Platform

Nice, NASA is using Eclipse framework on linux workstations.

alphaWorks : Robocode : Overview

alphaWorks : Robocode : Overview

How to learn java and having fun same time. Now is open-source.

Winterfox

The forms in linux version of Firefox are kind of ugly. For ages I wanted to improve the look of the forms.
Now I found the solution. kudos to ilishin

The Web Standards Project Acide Test

The Web Standards Project will provide a test for Internet Explorer 7.0 to see if it'll follow Web standards. The test is not only or IE.

gentoo installer

Some pictures with Gentoo Installer. Is based on gtk+ and I am not sure is going to be released for 2005.0.

I hope final version is going to be with another theme, something like clearlooks.

Planet Gentoo

Planet Gentoo is out.

Is one of the planets that I read. One of my favorite is Planet Gnome.

new gentoo site

One of the most active linux distribution will have a new site.

SCO on IRC

gentoo: SCO on IRC

bwhahaha

Adding Persistent Searches to Gmail

Adding Persistent Searches to Gmail [persistent.info]

Cool features from gmail.

Adobe Open Source

Adobe Open Source
Welcome! We are happy to announce the release of the Adobe Open Source Libraries to the public

my project

My project was approved on forge novell. Link

On windows


On linux

Exams, drugs and house :P

Lately, I am busy with exams. The last one is on Saturday (26-feb).

Work on nmap-sharp is doing well, I submitted the project at forge.novell.com. I am still waiting for approval.

Yesterday I smoked first cigar this year. Not good.
PS: normal cigar, the title is a joke after this song .

Google hosting of Wikipedia

Google hosting - From Meta; discussion about Wikimedia projects

A lot of people are concern about wikipedia performance lately. Google wants to help them.

Gravatar and windows RIP

Gravatar - Globally Recognized Avatar

Interesting.

anyway, I lost a 15Gb fat32 partition. So, I lost half of my music, a lot of work for school and all windows programs. So from now on I will use only Linux.

Conclusion: bye bye Windows.

My Blogging Tips - Technorati Tag: RoBloggingTips

Experienţa mea de blogger a început în felul următor.

Pe Windows foloseam klipfolio pentru a citi ştirile. După ce am migrat pe Linux, am căutat ceva asemănător deoarece klipfolio nu era disponibil pe linux[1]. Şi aşa am descoperit rss-urile.

La momentul acela şi clienţii de rss din linux[2] erau cam spartani dar ce-i drept că nici nu erau aşa populare rss-urile. După un timp am început să selectez rss-urile şi aşa a rezultat o categorie cam necunoscută, la care i-am pus numele weblogs ;) Încetul cu încetul acea categorie tot s-a mărit şi a devenit destul de greu de citit. După care am descoperit www.bloglines.com, şi am mutat toate weblogurile acolo, clientul de rss rămând pentru citit ştirile, alerte de securitate, etc.

Aceasta a fost prima parte a experienţei mele de blogger. Am de gând să mai deschid un blog unde voi continua. Momentan n-am nici o idee unde îl voi deschide, mi-ar place mult să fie într-un blog comunitar, planet.chip.ro sau ceva asemănător. :P

Această intrare în blog a apărut în urma acestei iniţiative. Am descoperit că blogosfera românească este mai mare decât mă aşteptam cu persoane extraordinare. kudos pentru Carmen şi Gabriela.


[1] se pare că este în plan şi un client pentru linux
[2] http://liferea.sourceforge.net/

Technorati Tag:RoBloggingTips

nmap frontend in gtk#

I am writing a frontend for nmap in gtk#. The program will be crossplatform.
The GUI is almost done, initially I will port old frontend, after that I will try to add new features like settings(save, load), view logs, history of IP targets.



Is expected a new release of mono, gtk#, monodevelop.
http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.1.4/

I have a nightbuild version of Firefox, now is using gtk file selector. New web standard XForms is working without problem so far, Firefox being the first browser who support xforms.

gmail invitations

WOW

Seems that Gmail will spread with invitations.
First announcement of Gmail was in 1 April 2004. A lot of people thought that was a joke.
Maybe this year on 1 April, Google will make another joke like this.

remote control for my desktop

Exams are coming fast.
    [/alert]

I am writing a remote control for my Linux desktop. What I want to do is:

1. control audio player            done
   
2. control video player
3. access movie database
   
4. control tv tuner
   
5. to look like a real remote control, with a LCD screen.
   

BTW, in gtk# method setFromFile can't be used in a image widget.
You can do something like this:
   Gdk.Pixbuf pix= new Gdk.Pixbuf("/tmp/muine/1.png");
   imgCoperta.Pixbuf= pix;

blogs of some friends

Finally I convinced some friends of mine to blog.
DeusX
Thybalt
XmasBug

Another friend of mine have a blog from a long time:
puterfixer

OpenOffice.org Web Buttons

Nicu Buculei made some web buttons for promoting OpenOffice in websites/blogs.

python program for muine

I finished a python program to show the current song from Muine, an audio player for linux written in C#.

For the moment can be used to show the song on irc channels via xchat and EXEC.
Screenshot

I am working to do a xchat plugin to control the player.
A gaim integration would be nice too.
Update: for now only perl scripts are suported in gaim.

Knowledge gained: python, dbus, regex.

bloglines - the most popular web aggregator

So, it seems that web applications are quite popular.
From bloglines I would like more customized webservices and some way to give ratings for blogs.

PS: blogthis extension is in my personal top5 firefox extensions.

RSS 1.1 from Sean B. Palmer on 2005-01-18 ([email protected] from January 2005)

RSS 1.1 from Sean B. Palmer on 2005-01-18 ([email protected] from January 2005):

"I'm pleased to announce the release of RSS 1.1"

[map.search.ch] - Map: Switzerland

[map.search.ch] - Map: Switzerland

another kick ass web application based on javascript

The Atom Syndication Format

The Atom Syndication Format

Atom 0.4 is out
Now support encryption and a category element.

I hope Blogger and Gmail will update soon. My Linux feed reader is implementing support for this. Being a open source project anyone can contribute with patches so I expect that in couple of days he will support new atom specification.

about web applications

Paul Graham said about Web-based applications in his recent book, Hackers and Painters. "The idea of 'your computer' is going away and being replaced by 'your data.' You should be able to get at your data from any computer. Or rather any client, and a client doesn't have to be your computer.''

dirtSimple.org: Python Is Not Java

dirtSimple.org: Python Is Not Java
A great post in explaining advantages using Python instead of Java and how XML can expand them.
The comments of readers are also interesting.

This post demonstrate again how useful is a blog, you don't need to convince a newspaper to write your article, you can have your own newspaper with more feedback because you can interact with the reader and see where you thought wrong.

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Pentru DeusX , aştept articolul tău despre Opera. ;)

firewire card

1062827228-card800.jpg (JPEG Image, 800x600 pixels)

Today I bought this card. I have plans to buy a DV Camera.
After installing this card I will remain only with one pci slot(1/6).

Update:
I also bought a 256 DDR module. Eclipse is eating a lot of memory.

new bloggers and old corporate bloggers

General Motors Vice Chairman has a blog.

Macromedia is starting to blog.

More:
IBM blogs
Microsoft blogs
Sun blogs

Microsoft Will Never Catch Google

Microsoft Will Never Catch Google
bwhahaha, I can't stop laughing.

what google employees use

http://intelligence.visitorville.com/company.php?co=Google+Inc .
Seems that google employees use Linux in proportion of 5%. I don't know how this data are gather but I think are very wrong or the google robots are not mentioned.

hi 2005

Happy New year.

I am back from vacation. Not much skiing. The main news is that I ended a 9 month relationship . . . a long story - yeah, I feel so good ;). New year, no smoke, no girlfriend, no drinks(hihi, just kidding about drinks :P)