There is a bug that crashes Eclipse in the latest versions of Ubuntu right now. It involves one of the most used features: Content Assist. You know, pressing Ctrl+Space to show objects, methods, or variable information quickly. The problem is actually not with Eclipse or Java, but (as usual) some of the native components – …
In between the massive changes to the site (see my twitter) and setting up new developer relationships, I was inspired to work with Compiz Fusion – or what most now just call Compiz. I’ve always wanted to do some plugins, but the problem is jumping into their largely undocumented API. That’s changing a bit now, …
I’ve been using SDL for a long time in C++, and I’ve toyed sdljava, which are rather complete bindings for SDL for Java. While the bindings are rather complete, they where created using SWIG, which is a (great) code generator, but still the result is that these bindings are kinda clunky and rather bloated. For …
For reasons unknown, we’ve decided to release a Java class for working with PCX images. It’s a rather simple image format without animation that supports both palette based (8-bit / 256-color) and true-color (24-bit) images. We provide both read and write support for uncompressed and RLE encodings. There wern’t any real existing solutions, and even …