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Eclipse’s Tab Properties And JFace Database Binding

Posted on: Tuesday, February 28th, 2006 in: Java

New tabbed properties view is finally coming to Eclipse 3.2 Platform, according to this article.
What it was before:

What it’s after:

I personally think, although I haven’t tried, that it would be more difficult to navigate through tabs using only keyboards.
JFace Database Binding is still not an Official API for Eclipse 3.2. But it doesn’t stop us [...]

The Rise Of Mustang and JUnit

Posted on: Saturday, February 18th, 2006 in: Java

Tiger (Java SE 5) has been out for a while. Mustang (Java SE 6) was started a year ago. Sun has been releasing weekly source and binary snapshots. So what does Mustang comprise? Its features were governed by JSR-270, which is an umbrella JSR for specific JSRs. Some major components include JDBC 4.0, JAP 1.1, [...]

Better Than Flowers On Valentine’s Day

Posted on: Thursday, February 16th, 2006 in: Java, Linux, PHP

Here comes Valentine’s Gift from Yahoo! For our everyday’s HTML and AJAX needs, Yahoo! has just given us Yahoo! User Interface Library, and all the components are released under Open Source License (BSD License). Better than flowers, huh?
Yeah, we’ve got libraries and that pushes us further into endless possibilities of creating useful applications. To make [...]

Feeding RSS

Posted on: Tuesday, February 14th, 2006 in: General, Java, PHP

RSS is just an XML file that follows XML 1.0 specification. RSS simply allows us to syndicate a website contents into another website. If you want to add RSS feeds into your website, I guess we will need the read the followings:

The RSS 1.0 specification.
The RSS 2.0 specification.
RSS File Format and history.
RSS Advisory Board.
PHP [...]

Human Cloning And Embryonic Stem Cell Research: A View from Theravada Buddhist Morality

Posted on: Friday, February 10th, 2006 in: General

Sometimes I wonder how genetic engineering relates to Buddhism. After some google/wiki, I have found this article interesting, and it’s awesome, though I don’t agree 100%. But the link was broken and had to read it from the cache. The article is written by Somparn Promta from Thailand.