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Dave Johnson on social software, open source and Java

Above: a random selection of photos from my Flickr photo-stream.

Thursday Jan 23, 2003

Using JFace and SWT in stand-alone mode.

A. O. Van Emmenis: "Even outside the Eclipse Workbench, JFace's pluggable design still allows you to develop sophisticated GUIs with surprisingly little code."

Persistent differences between the .Net and Java worlds.

Stuart Halloway: "Those few differences that will continue to matter are those of programmer culture."

Snow in N.C.!

We have about 3 inches of snow here in Raleigh and the white stuff is still coming down. Schools are closed, kids are happy, and I'm not going on the roads today. The universities in the are open except for N.C. State where students are still sleeping off hangovers from the the "We beat Dook" parties last night.