NeXTClockSo here is a new project on GitLab called NeXTClock: a small browser-based recreation of a NeXTSTEP-style clock applet from the 1990s. This modern version renders a 64-unit clock face into a square <canvas> using JavaScript and requestAnimationFrame(), with optional scaling from 64 to 500 pixels, because, well, Java Applets aren’t really a thing anymore.
Learning A New Programming Language per Year in the Age of AIPeople don’t really learn new programming languages every year anymore thanks to AI, so why do I stick with this activity? Call me old fashioned, but I still like to dive into a new programming language every year, no matter what, and thus here comes yet another update in my lifelong obsession to learn more and more programming languages.
Java Applets in 2023I’ve explained recently how to display Macromedia Flash movies in 2023, using Ruffle; today we’re going to learn how to run Java Applets in your modern browser of 2023, without having to install Java. Yes, it’s possible.
Mobile Application Testing BookGoing through my archives I found a booklet I wrote 10 years ago, about testing iOS and Android mobile apps. I’m adding it to my Books page for the sake of memory, even though its contents are not at all relevant by today’s standards.
Yup, Still Learning a New Programming Language Every YearI gave an update on this lifetime activity of mine in 2006, 2007, 2011, and 2013, and here we go for 2023.
Killer AppsThe D programming language lacked a “killer app” to break through. Another brilliant language suffered from this situation, objectively deserving a much better fate than the one it had; Smalltalk.
Fortune AppsAs part of my work in VSHN, I lately prepared a set of demo applications ready to be containerized and deployed in our new product APPUiO Cloud.
Polyglot ConwayMy personal project during the pandemic was Conway, a project providing implementations of Conway’s Game of Life in as many programming languages as possible.
Visual J++Once upon a time, there was a programming environment made by Microsoft called Visual J++. It was their attempt to do with Java what they had done with JScript before, and to be honest, it was quite cool. You could compile and run Java code on Windows with a very good IDE - this was 5 years before IntelliJ released IDEA! It generated much faster binaries than what the official Java compiler from Sun produced. Developers could access functionality inside of packages starting with the microsoft. name, but that of course that kind of broke the whole point of Java which is to make cross-platform stuff that you only write once and then you run everywhere.
Still Learning One Language per YearQuick update about my “one language per year” lifelong initiative:
Learning One New Language Every YearHere’s an update of the current status of my “one language per year” lifelong initiative:
Not Exactly What I MeantThis is a rant. When I decided to leave behind all my years as a Microsoft developer and embrace open source, I wasn’t exactly thinking about this.
A New Programming Language Every YearSomewhere I read that it was a good thing to learn at least one new programming language every year; I think I have kept up that trend since 1992:
The JAVA© Programming LanguageSince I read a news article about Java©, on August ‘97, I wanted to know more about programming for the World Wide Web. I tried first JavaScript©, but its many features made me… buy a book about JAVA©… and I love it! It’s a really great language. Not so easy, but thrilling! My first applets for JAVA© are in the following links… they are almost all under heavy construction, so don’t get angry with me! I’m just beginning with all this!