We got two new tech pets over the holidays, two iDogs. These cool little toys look very Apple-style but were originally made by SEGA and are now distributed by Hasbro and others. You could use an iDog simply as a speaker for you iPod (or any other MP3-player – in case there are still other players […]
Author: Wolf Paulus
JavaOne SwiXML presentation online
Finally, Sun posted PDF formatted session documentation of all JavaOne 2005 sessions here: http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/2005/ Even if you went to JavaOne, you probably missed Hans Muller’s Defining Swing GUIs Declaratively session and his take on Swixml. The PDF version of his slides is now available here:
How private are private fields after all?
Last week, I sent the following brain teaser: public class Foo { private int secret = 47; public Foo() { new Hacker().hack(this); } public String tellSecret() { return String.valueOf(secret); } public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(”How secret are private members? ..”); System.out.println(”Psst: ” + new Foo().tellSecret(); } } Can you write a void hack(Object […]
Why in the world would you think your cell phone would work in your house?
This obviously rhetorical question was asked by Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon‘s CEO. During a short trip to San Francisco last week, I stayed at the stunning Hyatt Regency San Francisco (thanks to a great deal I got on HotWire). The biz section of the morning newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle had an interview with Verizon’s CEO that I found rather […]
Podcasting and the law of conservation of modularity
Flying to Sunnyvale, meeting up with developer peers is fun, wouldn’t there be the flight. Seems like I’m unable to have an ordinary uneventful trip and it wasn’t any different this time around. Due to a deadly traffic accident on the I5, driving the 30 miles from Carlsbad to airport in San Diego took me […]