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Maevies and butaca-server updated in extras-devel

After almost a month without updates, today I’ve pushed some fixes and improvements to Maevies and butaca-server. Query results are freed once they’re no longer needed The service quits when the user closes the client There’s a proper About window (taken from Joaquim Rocha‘s SeriesFinale) Maemo packages (Maevies, butaca-server) in extras-devel work fine (previous version for butaca-server lacked [...]

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Another (general) status report

Some quick notes (the list of things which would deserve a full blog entry for themselves just keeps growing…) My manager (I don’t like how “boss” sounds) retired last week. Although he visited us a couple of days more to spend some time with us, things will be, at least, different. We’ll surely miss him. [...]

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From Maevies to Butaca: a change for the better

Maevies was born twice. The first one, around the end of October, had a limited lifespan. The second one, a couple of months ago, was much more promising. As I’ve just told, I’m following the same architectural approach we have for Jamp, the Free Software Master‘s project. I was progressing fairly well, and feeling close [...]

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Status report on maevies

Quick update on maevies status: Movie posters are fetched from Internet Google movies page is shown when ‘now on theaters’ is clicked It is possible to search for stingers and extras after / during the credits on WATC (What’s after the credits) WATC wiki is shown when a WATC result is clicked Pictures from this [...]

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And now, introducing maevies

Back in October, a friend and I started a project targeting Maemo. We had been thinking about programming for maemo for a lot of time (but for Diablo devices), and Fremantle‘s new UI, so appealing, almost got us buying a N900 (we ended up buying a HTC Tattoo, but that’s another story). At that moment, [...]

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See you in June

I haven’t typed a single line of code since the Easter Week Holidays. Besides my daily job, I should be finishing some assignments I’ve been given, so this personal project has been pushed back in my priorities stack. I’m not going to give up so easily: I think it’s just a matter of time, and [...]

Undo, redo support using patterns

More report progress regarding undo, redo and execute using design patterns.

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Keep working hard

Some progress report

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Swing JTable

Some links about Swing JTable, and TableModel

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Some (unasked) explanations

In occasions, the amount of time spent actually developing an application is less than the time spent thinking how to do it.

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