‘Twas Brillig*

Just updated the menus for bouncebounce using Amaya, unfortunately they look rubbish in Firefox. It seems to add the width onto the padding - will have to investigate…

Just noticed that beta 2 of netbeans 5.0 is out, hopefully some of the GUI builder bugs have been fixed. It wasn’t much fun building a GUI only to move a label and have the whole thing fallover. Looking at the timestamps I think it was released on Monday.

I’m playing about with GEDXML at the moment, not that I really want to write a genealogy program, more because I want to use some XML, Java 5 (or 1.5 as I think about it) and Swing. I don’t use Swing at work and it will be a while before we move to Java 5 so I need the practice.

Spent the evening creating an XSD for one of our XML files and found Hit Software’s XML utilities and XSD schema validator to be ace.

A long time ago I wrote a version of Risk for RISC OS and I have just discovered that it can be found here

Yesterday I wrote a Su Doku solver in java - In my defence I was bored - I’ve only attempted the few Su Doku puzzles in the Radio Times and I wanted to see how good my technique was. I’ve tried it against some from the Times and so far it is very hard ones that are proving, how can I put this, very hard.

tags: programming, java

Just spent all afternoon trying to set up a web project in my IDE. Set it up easily enough but everytime I tried to login BLAM NullPointerException so go into debug mode. Takes the afternoon to figure out that it is because I develop with cookies turned off and someone has forgotten to add URL rewriting, so it’s nothing I’ve done but guess who’ll have to fix it? Can I have my afternoon back please?