I’ve heard a few different people mention that it’s not uncommon when writing software to end up doing it at least twice. Indeed some development schedules and practices define doing it twice. The first time, you get it working, the second time you do it right. Andrew and I were evaluating the current state of [...]

I’m sitting here picking through the sparse documentation we have on the java port, looking at the mounds of code that are the AWT, and holding my head. It’s been a while. Too long of a while. While some of our documentation is outstanding, we had a bad habit in our haste to leave in-code [...]

With Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.4 thousands of new classes were added to the base API. One of the packages added was the java.util.prefs package. This package is one of the rare (and fun to port) packages that use platform-specific implementations of the public API. From the beginning of the Java port, people have [...]

Sat down and needed to distract my brain from wandering all over creation tonight. I’ll probably be a code-monkey machine for the next few weeks — this is not a bad thing. Really. So I started back where I left off with Java on BeOS almost a month ago. Andrew is back in the states, [...]