XFire Custom Types
XFire Custom Types – 25th February 2008 – XFire 1.2.6 Custom Types are types registered with XFire that perform their own mapping to/from XML. "complex types" are your own beans/objects which don’t...
View ArticleNextDesk
Nearly three years after I first started the project, the first public beta of NextDesk is now online. Put simply, NextDesk lets you easily drag and drop files from your computer to another computer....
View ArticleJava Swing UIManager Look and Feel Defaults
While working with Java Swing UIs, I’ve occasionally found it difficult to locate a complete list of all the tweakable colours, borders, fonts etc that form part of a Swing Look and Feel. Here’s my...
View ArticleJDarkRoom 14
The beginning of this month saw the release of version 14 of JDarkRoom, the full-screen text editor that has developed a loyal following since its first release over two years ago. The new version is...
View ArticleXPDisplay for X-Plane
I’ve been enjoying X-Plane for several months now and figured that since I’m a programmer, it’s time to give something back. I’ve been messing around and have come up with an information display –...
View ArticleLow-cost XPlane Control Panel
This is a little project that I’ve been working on over the last month or so. (I completed it several weeks back, but I’ve been having too much fun with it to write up this blog post) It is a physical...
View ArticleMudPi
About 10 years ago, I wrote Alternate Universe MUD, a free text-based online adventure game, with a space-theme and an emphasis on exploration and discovery. Note: for younger/less geeky readers, a MUD...
View ArticleXPDisplay improvements in the pipeline
After a couple of months with hardly any time to work on my personal projects, it feels great to be developing again! This is a screenshot of XPDisplay, showing the new airport information display on...
View ArticleFurther XPDisplay improvements
XPDisplay now has a ‘Data’ tab, which (currently) displays charts with approach glideslope and landing gear forces, for post-landing analysis: Glideslope - showing a late approach and landing! Landing...
View ArticleGitBlit on the Raspberry Pi
I’ve used GitHub, BitBucket and Unfuddle for hosted Git repositories – and they’re good at what they do – but until recently hadn’t found a good solution for a locally hosted Git repository server. I...
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