A Junior Java Software Developer Diary

A Junior Java Software Developer Diary

Since around a month ago I've been learning a ton of information from a Godlike Java Architech ;)
So before I forget some of these priceless lessons & experience, I'll  be making a series of log about it :0.

Everything from real-world requirements gathering, proposing a design, architecture design, tools to everyday coding.

I'm really feeling lucky ;)

JavaFX and Lars Ulrich of Metallica!

After finally appreciating JavaFX, and now maybe I'll say that JavaFX is damn cool because of this app I just found.

http://www.javafx.me/crudfx/examples/RhytmBox.html

It's a simple JavaFX application, but for Metallica a fan and a Java programmer, this is awesome, haha!

Cool Open Source Java Games!

my google searching effort for cool Java open source game stuff has paid off. Very cool enough that I'd make a posting for it here.

First off Pulpcore http://www.interactivepulp.com/pulpcore/



This demo says(IMO), "Java Applets can crush Flash games now". Really cool demo, looks like Doom for kids!

Next off is, Robocode, http://robocode.sourceforge.net/

A game for programmers where you create a Java code for a robot to battle! nice! Every thing is up and running without any pain in setting up, they got good docs too. Here's a screenshot.

The best JavaME article out there

http://developer.sonyericsson.com/community/docs/DOC-2594#cf

I finally got our thesis prototype working because of this article. Although I didn't read it haha because I skipped and jumped into the demo code. The code is very clean and nicely done! I spent two sleepless nights trying to make video recording using the WMA API and it's working, very fullfilling!
My biggest weapon I forged from this experience is the use of catching RuntimeExceptions. Really helped in my bug catching missions~

WarriorPig

WarriorPig is a translation tool I've just created today. I've hosted it in
http://code.google.com/p/warriorpig/
Features:
Commandline translation
Swing front-end
Automatically translate text from clipboard

Goto,break label statements in Java

Just a while ago I read this tech-tip from http://java.sun.com/developer/TechTips/2000/tt0613.html.
I'd like to find tutorials and tips on how to utilize this code.

Saving YouTube videos w/ only Firefox

There's a lot of videos from youtube that lasts for more than an hour. Last I started watching this video from google techtalk channel, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDN_EYUvUq0.
Saving this video from Firefox is the easiest non-common task I've done in Ubuntu. Follow this simple instruction from a post in linuxquestions.org. Enjoy!
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/saving-youtube-597441/#post2949720

Good applet simulation of Producer and Consumer problem

This page shows a Java applet simulation of the "classic" concurrency problem.
http://cs.gmu.edu/cne/workbenches/pcmon/monitor.html

Array vs ArrayList vs LinkedList vs Vector: an excellent overview and examples

Hi, right now I'm at the lib preparing for our project in CS103 //principles of os. I encountered examples in Java using LinkedList, I've used them yesterday, used also Vectors a lot, but never knew their difference. Reading this page gave me a lot of info of what the new Java gives us. This is a good one! Enjoy!
http://www.javafaq.nu/java-article1111.html