I came across an interesting article that discusses today’s application developers making extensive use of different frameworks in their applications. This is the writer’s opinion: …Todays projects are over bloated from the use of frameworks that dont really produce a real benefit. Developers spend around 75% of their time just on set up and configuration… [...]
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Posted by Alexander Zagniotov in: design patterns, java on Nov 15th, 2008 19:14
Today, I came across these two projects today: one called Substance (Java look & feel) and the other called Flamingo (UI components). These projects designed and maintained by Kirill Grouchnikov. You can read Kirill’s blog, he talks about the latest releases. Also, there are few examples available. For example you can check out this Substance [...]
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Posted by Alexander Zagniotov in: java on Nov 6th, 2008 22:29
Barack Obama has won the election. It makes me kind of happy – I was hoping for either Obama or Hilary (when she was still in the race) to win. Why? Honestly speaking I do not show much interest in US politics. Having said that, I was interested to see first African-American president or first [...]
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Posted by Alexander Zagniotov in: off topic on Nov 5th, 2008 15:49
I found this picture on one of the blogs. If you look at the dancing girl and you see her spinning clockwise, then you are using your right side of your brain. If you see her spinning counter clockwise, then you are using your left side of your brain. The link that I mentioned previously [...]
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Posted by Alexander Zagniotov in: off topic on Nov 1st, 2008 19:09