Have you ever found the need to maintain a structured list of items? Of course! Have you ever needed to make sure those items stay in natural order? Maybe. If you answered yes then you need the Java TreeMap class. Let us say we are going to store a structure...

Ladies and Gentlemen! I have put up for public download the first alpha release of SyncXpress. It is still in VERY early production, and not ready for prime time, so use at your own risk. You will need .NET 2.0 to run this application. I also hope to have a...

I took my baby girls to the movie Meet the Robinsons. They enjoyed it, even though my seven year old appears to be scared of all things 3D, which is the version we went to see. There are two versions. The regular 3D animated version, and the TrueD 3D jump-at-ya...

So I was reading a blog entry on Ben Nadel’s site about him trying to do function pointers in ColdFusion. It seems that a solution was never presented to him, though I am not sure as the entry is nearly a month old. I decided to play with the concept...

Yesterday I was working on using Java reflection to create function pointers in ColdFusion to native ColdFusion methods. I was able to get this to work on any function with only String parameters, but not integer. Well, I found out why. The integer data type in Java is a primitive...

So recently I’ve decided to delve into the world of Java development, or, more specifically, desktop Java development. So far I am liking it. My first task was to write a small application that would accept two dates as input and spit out a tab-separated report of first and last...

In an effort to support removable media devices in SyncXpress I’ve had to do a bit of learning about WMI in .NET. It is actually quite cool how much information you can get from WMI about ANY piece of hardware attached to your system, and even INSIDE your system. So...

Long under development, and not due to complexity, has my program SyncXpress been. I am happy to state that it is nearly done with the first beta. I’ve got most all the interface elements built. Package management is working, allowing you to create, modify, and delete packages and their respective...

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