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I visited J-Fall 2008 today, another successful Java conference organized by the NLJUG. J-Fall/J-Spring are the biggest Java events in the Netherlands, it's always fun to visit, see what the latest developments are, what people are doing and how crazy the conference booths are. Although actually the booths were pretty quiet this time, which is ...

Introduction The last few weeks, Jamie Craane and I have been working on a small but usefull tool called Folder Visualizer. The idea of this tool is that it can scan your harddrive and make a visual representation of where the largest directories are located on the harddisk. This is most useful when cleaning up space. The project is available ...

Adobe today launched the Flash Player 10 beta player. See some demo videos on some new features, notably 3D and the "weird text layout" support, which is great because the Flash text layouting really could use a tune-up. Adobe also launched the Open Screen Project, which basically means they want to drop licensing costs in ...

General session Adobe must have been happy with today's general session. We started the morning with another session from Bruce Eckel and James Ward about Flex. I saw most of it already in their university session earlier this week, but all of it keeps impressing me. What I didn’t see yet before is what Flex can do with offline clients ...

Session 1 – Thinking in FlexI started the second day with a session about Adobe Flex, presented by Bruce Eckel and James Ward. I really enjoyed the session, not only because the topic is interesting but also because Bruce and James are very entertaining speakers. The fun thing is that they do actually really present together, instead of both ...