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Mon, April 28, 2003

The Mozilla/Phoenix browser is a pretty interesting competitor to IE. Here is a location of a Phoenix FAQ I found.

By Alvin Alexander on April 28, 2003

Sat, Mar 1, 2003

A little ditty on how to find the caret position in a JTextComponent, and display a JPopupMenu near that position. This is one of those things that may not be 100% correct, but it works until someone finds a better way.

By Alvin Alexander on March 1, 2003

Java caret position - Getting the caret position in a text document

Java caret position FAQ: How do I get the Java caret position in a JTextComponent, such as a JTextArea or JEditorPane?

Wow, this was a bear to find anything about. Everyone always wants to show you how to use a JPopupMenu with a mouse click, such as a right-mouse click, but nobody ever shows you how to display a JPopupMenu when someone uses a keystroke, or keyboard accelerator.

So, using a little Java mojo, here is how I get the caret position in a JTextComponent (JTextArea, etc.) to display a JPopupMenu near the current caret position:

By Alvin Alexander on August 6, 2011

Sat, Feb 22, 2003

I'm about to take a look at a tool (an Excel spreadsheet) named "XP Tracker" that may help track progress on a current XP project. I'll try to put updates here on this tool as I work with it. At work we use the Twiki a lot and Bugzilla, so this tool may not be perfect, but I'm on a quest for something like this.

By Alvin Alexander on February 22, 2003

Tue, Feb 18, 2003

(Personal stuff) Kim is having some teeth pulled out today, Kenny has been in the hospital since last Wed or Thu and the doctors think he has pancreatitis (sp) or worse, and we had a big ice/sleet storm over the weekend. Yikes! On a bright note, I ran/walked/biked for 80:29+ last night, followed by a couple of sets of "god-dammits", my least favorite exercise.

By Alvin Alexander on February 18, 2003

Sun, Feb 16, 2003

The minority report by pkd is becoming a bit too real ... right now I'm an itchy finger away from buying a Tablet PC, which led to finding this page from IBM about "natural interaction" and "dream space". Combine that way of interacting with computers, add a touch of multiple instances of Joseph McMoneagle, and you have the reality of the minority report. (At least the computer part supplies the vision of the computer interaction in the movie version.)

By Alvin Alexander on August 6, 2011

Sat, Feb 8, 2003

While reading a book on TDD (Test Driven Development) from Kent Beck, I ran across a reference to Jester, which is apparently a JUnit test tester. Like many things lately, I haven't tested it yet myself, but it claims to "find code that is not covered by tests". If it works, that would be pretty cool.

By Alvin Alexander on February 8, 2003

Sun, Jan 19, 2003

Here are a few places on the web that I might read/visit in the future. None are weeded out yet, so reader beware. I'm going to start with this list, and weed out the weak.

By Alvin Alexander on July 17, 2010

One thing leads to another (Sat, Jan 18, 2003)

In the spirit of the old song from "The Fixx", One Thing Leads to Another, here are several links today that have nothing to do with my original ambition, which was to get some more spam out of my email:

By Alvin Alexander on September 14, 2009

Tue, Jan 14, 2003 (anti-spam software)

Find of the day yesterday: probably nothing new to others who are familiar with the spam industry, but while working on a different problem, I noticed yesterday that spammers are embedding HTML comments in the middle of almost every word in some of the spam email I receive! (At some point, why don't these people look in the mirror, and see that they're stooping so low, and doing something so wrong?)

Looking at the raw text of one message I received, sent to my "unix" email account, the raw text looked like this:

By Alvin Alexander on August 6, 2011
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