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...seven years ago; JNLP-enabled launcher and code and whatnot are here.

It was a great exercise, and among other things it taught me that just because I had skimmed through Game Programming Gems I didn't really know how to code up a game.

> and all I got was a pinkslip

You should have used modrails. Suddenly, Rails deployment is as easy as PHP deployment. I no longer hesitate to put up little toy apps since now I don't have to worry about mongrel clusters and init scripts and all that rot. Great stuff!

Quiet times here. To break the ice, here is a Tetris game that I wrote about three years ago. It is not implemented very well.

Er, that's all I got. Peace out.

...it was a Java client that used Apache Axis and the GForge SOAP API to make a GUI client. I made a little jEdit plugin and a little JFreeChart app that showed user and project charts.

I wasn't really using the GUI client very much, though, so I ran out of interest. But if something like that was available that could talk to the SourceForge servers, I'd buy it...

...it was a Java client that used Apache Axis and the GForge SOAP API to make a GUI client. I made a little jEdit plugin and a little JFreeChart app that showed user and project charts.

I wasn't really using the GUI client very much, though, so I ran out of interest. But if something like that was available that could talk to the SourceForge servers, I'd buy it...

There were also a number of technologies that respondents were well aware of, but which most would not consider deploying, with OpenOffice, PostgreSQL, JBoss, Thunderbird, Mambo, Zope, Exim, and Sleepycat, falling into this category.

Writing a Pacman clone is a great exercise if you're trying to learn how to program games. There's graphics, hit detection, path-finding, "AI" strategy, high score tracking; all kinds of good stuff to think about.

Another good one is Tetris; lots of interesting challenges in there.

...will help prevent code like this, too. Removing useless code can't help but improve performance, not to mention readability...

[plug]
Support your local open source static code analysis utility!
[/plug]

Anyone had any luck with running Jabberd on FC4? I kept getting segfaults, backtrace is here. Never did figure out what was wrong, but falling back to FC3 "fixed" it.

Also, if anyone wants to set up Jabberd to log to PostgreSQL, I've put some notes on that here. It includes notes on using Ruby's ActiveRecord with that setup too, good times...

...on the latest code from CVS is right here.

Looks like DataDictionaryImpl.java could use some trimming...

> I think "Java" and "Browser lockup"
> became nearly synonymous.

So true. That's why I went with JNLP for my tetris clone. Of course, JNLP has got its own problems... argh.

[tom@hal pd]$ wc -l srchwnd.cpp
2503 srchwnd.cpp
[tom@hal pd]$

...in case of Slashdotting.

> common semantics of different idioms

I don't understand. How does a 66 line chunk of duplicate code constitute a "common semantic" or a "different idiom"?

...in the report for Video Toaster CG as analyzed by CPD.

Co-owners Ken and Tom Carlton spent $200 a month to get an ad for their
business to pop up when someone searched for "roll forming," a process that
turns metal into different shapes.

The Apple brand is cool right now, and that perceived hipness is a major selling point for Apple.

Another one here, just in case.

...is right here.

Looks pretty good; there are some duplicates that could be knocked out, though - in db_server_xdr.c, for example.

...can be found here.

Lots of stuff to work on there... that's just the architecture directory...

...the Sanyo TS7.

I don't think it'll be much good at busting bunkers, but it does have nice Star Wars-looking armor (mirror in case of Slashdotting).

...some unused variables and such-like in there, though, as reported by PMD.

...not too bad, some duplicates found by CPD.

It's up to the folks running the corporations to do what they want. We pay for and administer RubyForge because Ruby helps us do our job (application integration and such-like) faster and better.

The Ruby community gets a nifty resource, we get the company name on the front page - everybody's happy. What's not to like?

...although CPD was able to find a few duplicate chunks.

/* sigh, so much for oo code reuse ... */
/* FIXME: put in a function */

...as reported by CPD.

Here's the report.

...at least, in terms of duplicated code clumps as reported by CPD.

Here's the report... not bad at all.

...called the Interoperability Prototype for Liberty.

Just to see what would turn up, I ran PMD over the source code - it came out pretty clean.

The flip side:

As a govt contractor for a small company paid to support govt projects, I am also allowed to work on open source projects. Since I work for a small company with no overhead, my workstation is a 2 CPU Linux box with 2 GB of RAM which I purchased after my boss' only guidelines were to "keep it under $5K".

I agree wholeheartedly with your analysis of the suggested Dept of Software foulness, but pls recognize that some good OSS gets written under govt auspices, and it can work out well for everyone.

> SWING is dead.

Is it? I've found Swing to be very handy for cross-platform GUI development. Combine it with Java Web Start and you got an easy way to develop and deploy all sorts of nifty stuff. Like this and this.

> SWING is dead.

Is it? I've found Swing to be very handy for cross-platform GUI development. Combine it with Java Web Start and you got an easy way to develop and deploy all sorts of nifty stuff. Like this and this.

And as usual, let me just put in a plug for Java Web Start if you want to take applets one step further.

Like this and this.

And as usual, let me just put in a plug for Java Web Start if you want to take applets one step further.

Like this and this.

And don't forget Java Web Start apps, like this (Tetris) and this (GForge client).

Java Web Start is great stuff - always downloads the latest version, easy to deploy... don't know why more folks aren't using it...

Tom

And don't forget Java Web Start apps, like this (Tetris) and this (GForge client).

Java Web Start is great stuff - always downloads the latest version, easy to deploy... don't know why more folks aren't using it...

Tom

SOAP actually supports more complex types through the standard XML namespace extensions

And it's a beautiful thing. For the GForge SOAP client we can define a new complex type, "Bug", on the nuSOAP PHP SOAP server like this:

// Add the definition of a Bug object
$server->wsdl->addComplexType(
&nb s p; 'Bug',
'complexType',
'struct',
'',
'',
array(
'id' => array('name'=>'id', 'type' => 'xsd:string'),
'summary' => array('name'=>'summary', 'type' => 'xsd:string')
)
);

and return it to a Java client and deserialize it by registering an Apache Axis BeanDeserializer for it:

Call call = (Call)service.createCall();
call.setEncodingStyle (Constants.URI_DEFAULT_SOAP_ENC);
call.registerTy peMapping(Bug.class, Bug.QNAME, new BeanSerializerFactory(Bug.class, Bug.QNAME), new BeanDeserializerFactory(Bug.class, Bug.QNAME));

All I have to provide on the client side is a little JavaBean-type object with some accessors. Works like a charm....

Yours,

tom

tom

I got yer PNGs right here.

Oh, er, mainstream. Well... it's the GForge SOAP client.... and GForge is used in some pretty big sites. So that kind of counts.

Anyhow.

Yours,

tom

Over on GForge we're starting to "interoperate" a fair bit - we've got a Java SOAP client up and running (screenshot) and it's been quite helpful in cleaning up some of the PHP code. Fun stuff!

Yours,

Tom