Hardware needed!

I am still running my main rig on the same hardware as 3+ years ago, which is an Athlon XP 3200+ mobile ( hehe ) with 1 GB DDR PC3200 ram and a modded Radeon 9800SE 128MB AGP card...

Sigh.... I really have to get of my butt, sell all the old Pentium3-era crap which is lying around, and upgrade my main station to a cheap dualcore system. I was thinking something along the lines of an AMD Athlon64 X2 4000+, 2GB DDR2 RAM and an AMD 690G-based mainboard. Since I hardly play games anymore, I might as well skip the purchase of an graphic card, and use the integrated X1250 solution for the time being.

More on the MVC (model-view-controller) theory

And of course I haven't figured it out yet. But here goes, I did find some more websites on the subject:

http://www.leepoint.net/notes-java/GUI/structure/40mvc.html
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javase/mvc/

BalusC moved on!

One of the websites that I have known for years, and actually used for years, has ceased to exsist. BalusC has sold his valuable database with info on almost every chipset and x86 CPU since the first Pentium CPU to Tweakers.net.

Hopefully they will but it back online...

Coincedentally, he does write a lot of Java tutorials, and he will continu posting them on his blogspot... :)

Swing theory

I am probably not that smart, but I still haven't got a proper Swing program made. Maybe this article on www.javaworld.com will help me.

Transparancy and Java #2

After reading some more into this specific subject at home, I do not think the current solutions (which involve screenshots, to emulate transparancy) add anything to this specific program. I guess I will be focusing on the "Always on top" feature.

Transparancy and Java

Some interesting links regarding transparant windows:

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/swinghks_hack41/index.html
http://blogofjavacrazy.blogspot.com/2007/03/transparent-window-in-java-back-with.html
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=348024&messageID=1451623

And some interesting book titles:
Swing Hacks: Tips and Tools for Killer GUIs

But from what I am reading, the most important link for me now is The Swing Tutorial.

Template Creator

For my work I have started making a little Java application. I have called it "Template Creator". It basically makes copy/pasting information into an internally used template file easier. So this also means it is not of any use to anyone else  :)

But I does give me more hands-on experience with Java, which is always a good thing.

A reminder to myself, the following things are on the to-do:

- Create a "quick paste" button for each TextField
- Create a "select and copy all text" button for the TextArea
- Possible use doubleclick in the TextField as "paste and enter".
- Create an HTML parser to grab the info directly from a website, instead of having to copy manually
- Possibly have the Template Creator window alway on top, maybe with reduced opacity, for quicker switching from the browser to the application.

First two should be easy, and done this week (mostly time contstrained at the moment). The other two, I guess will cost me a lot of trial-and-error.

Torrentflux-b4rt

The current Bittorrent client I am using is Transmission. This is a pretty lightweight client, and suitable enough for my needs. However, as I am always looking around, I came across Torrentflux-b4rt, which is among other thing a webinterface for Transmission.

http://tf-b4rt.berlios.de/

First post

So, everyone blogs, eh? I have decided that together with trying out several other Google apps, I also start a blog.... Well, we'll see how much I'll actually maintain it, and wether I can actually have a purpose for it... :)