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rchrd - Sun Studio Wikipedia Page

Aug 20, 12:01 PM

Looks like finally we have a page on Wikipedia for Sun Studio . The problem was that there already is, thanks to Elvis, an entry for another Sun Studio . And getting the two properly disambiguated ...

geertjan - Sakila and "org.netbeans.swing.etable.ETable"

Aug 20, 6:52 AM

I read about the Sakila sample database in James' blog and thought it a good opportunity to try out the new "ETable" component. "ETable? What's that?" you might be wondering. ETable is a Swing ...

sweber - [zip]

Aug 19, 10:37 PM

docs.sun.com , Sun's documentation website, has delivered on one of our customer's most common requests-- PDF downloads at the collection level. Look for the [zip] next the collection title, and ...

Alan McClellan - OpenSolaris Student Pack - Docs Delivered

Aug 18, 4:13 PM

Hey, we've just recently wrapped up a set of doc deliverables for an OpenSolaris Student Pack that is going to be distributed at various campus events this fall (back-to-school special :-). The ...

geertjan - Deadline Approaching for the 1st Annual "Will Code For Food" Competition

Aug 18, 2:29 PM

As mentioned in Jarda's blog , don't forget the 1st Annual "Will Code For Food" Competition ! The closing date for the competition is now set as the 28th of August, i.e., you have 10 more days! The ...

geertjan - Thanks Sandip!

Aug 16, 9:16 AM

Some pretty bad news—Sandip Chitale, one of the key players in the popularization of the NetBeans Platform, has left Sun . Although he never worked in any official capacity in relation to the ...

geertjan - Migrating from TreeTableView to OutlineView

Aug 15, 1:27 PM

Here, based on an existing example, is how to migrate from "TreeTableView" to the new NetBeans Platform 6.5 "OutlineView": Install the Marilyn TreeTableView Sample . Create the sample, i.e., choose ...

Brian Leonard - Accessing Windows Shares

Aug 15, 1:22 PM

In this entry I'll show you how to access Microsoft Windows shares that may be running alongside OpenSolaris on your network. Step 1: Share The Windows Folder  The first step is to make sure the ...

jyothi - Burning a data DVD from Virtual Box

Aug 14, 2:47 PM

I wanted to upgrade from OpenSolaris 2008.05 running in VirtualBox to the latest OpenSolaris development build . After downloading the iso image , I wanted to burn it on a DVD. Since I am running the ...

Brian Leonard - Search Domains

Aug 14, 10:30 AM

Here at Sun I get a lot of e-mails with links containing abbreviated domain names to Sun intranet sites. For example: http://sunweb.central Which is intended to mean: http://sunweb.central.sun.com ...

geertjan - Project Type Sample

Aug 13, 3:43 PM

In the coming weeks, a free on-line NetBeans Platform Training Course will be made available. It will be based on Tim's excellent "PovRay" series, which is currently severely out of date and has been ...

Gregg Sporar - Querying IPS Package Contents

Aug 12, 10:45 AM

I used the entry that Roman wrote on Querying IPS Packages to search for the OpenSolaris IPS packages that contain gcc : $ pkg search -r gcc INDEX ACTION VALUE PACKAGE ...

geertjan - OutlineView Sample

Aug 12, 8:55 AM

The Plugin Portal now provides a new sample demonstrating the new (NetBeans Platform 6.5) Explorer View called " OutlineView ", which is a simpler and more powerful alternative to the NetBeans ...

Brian Leonard - Sound in VirtualBox from MacOS X Host

Aug 12, 5:32 AM

Lack of sound has been a big drag on my day to day use of OpenSolaris, often forcing me to return to OS X when I need to hear something. Earlier today Gregg pointed me to New OSS Drivers Fix Sound ...

Brian Leonard - Local Hostname Resolution

Aug 11, 8:17 AM

OpenSolaris only allows me to ping machines in my local network by IP address: bleonard@opensolaris:/etc$ ping 10.0.1.200 10.0.1.200 is alive bleonard@opensolaris:/etc$ ping -s integrity.local ping: ...

Roman Strobl - What makes OpenSolaris interesting? Reason #2: SMF

Aug 11, 7:18 AM

This is a #2 part in a series of posts about what makes OpenSolaris interesting (you can read reason #1: ZFS here ). We'll go through different technologies and features that make OpenSolaris a ...

geertjan - Wicket in Action: Undoubtedly The Wicket Bible

Aug 11, 4:52 AM

Without question, Wicket in Action , soon to be released by Manning, is the be-all and end-all when it comes to Wicket. How could it be otherwise, since it is written by two of its core members and ...

geertjan - How to Create a Caret Aware Code Completion Box

Aug 10, 3:05 AM

Casper Bang asked a great question at the end of my previous blog entry about the new code completion tutorial: We have a desire in our team to get code completion for JPA queries. However, JPA is an ...

geertjan - Tutorial for Editor Code Completion API

Aug 8, 8:24 AM

When you press Ctrl-Space in the IDE, a code completion box pops up with words that you can use to complete the word under the curser. Here's a new tutorial that explains how you can create code ...

Roman Strobl - Mounting FAT-32 partitions in OpenSolaris

Aug 8, 8:20 AM

I had a hard time with mounting a FAT-32 partition in OpenSolaris - it just wouldn't mount. Finally I found out that I need to use the -f pcfs parameter to tell mount the filesystem type. It hit me ...