The Colorspace history dialog is now part of the standard and free feature set. The Mac OS X build might be broken due to a problem with the automatic build system. 64bit builds are available for Windows and Ubuntu Linux, but 32bit executables are most likely the best option because of issues with the way Java VM's are installed. JRE_HOME and TEPPEFALL_JVM can be used to select a specific Java VM.
Free color tool for web developers (screenshot).
This is the first "cloud based" product from Teppefall. More information will come over the next couple of months. It runs on Google AppEngine and is standard J2EE plus a few Google extensions. JavaMail, Twitter4J and XMPP works great.
Alpha product. Even the website is alpha. Teppefall HybridKit coming soon to a device near you.
Oracle sues Google. IBM joins OpenJDK. Apple drops Mac Java VM.
Well. Freaking. Duh.
Apple has hundreds of thousands of developers making iOS applications and 57 people doing Java Swing development. Every single one who whines about the depreciation of the Mac Java virtual machine is probably some sort of server programmer who whines about not being able to run Eclipse, IntelliJ or Netbeans, without installing a virtual machine, on his or her $5000 SSD MacBook Pro.
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I am not going to name names, but several HTML5 supporters have uttered the following lie: "Everyone just uses Webkit anyway". How is this different from Internet Explorer 6 plus Flash in 2001 ?
By being hell bent on "finishing" JavaFX instead of augmenting Swing Sun has more or less destroyed their credibility as a desktop platform company. The reality is that Swing plus a scene graph, accelerated layers and a new media framework is more valuable than the entire JavaFX ecosystem. Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Opera, Mozilla and Google all believe that XML is the future of layout and yet Sun believes a non-standard syntax based on Lisp and JSON is the way to go. And the fact that C#, Actionscript, Dalvik and Javascript are all Java clones seems to indicate that Java is just fine as a user interface language. Adobe even exports twine animation code as XML and vectors as SVG. I sit here working in Adobe Creative Suite and wonder what Sun is thinking.
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The Teppefall website was designed as an account system for future web applications. Currently there are only three services: Search, Remember link (not designed to be a bookmarking system) and Whois.
The service is only available to Teppefall customers because it runs on an outdated server that is scheduled to be replaced. I only change systems every five years, so it is a pain in the butt every time. I am outsourcing everything except the main website, so I might have to consider that as well. Backup, Internet access, heat, power and airplanes *cough* rack servers are all important factors.
Here are some screenshots. There are three design modes. Standard, application mode and an experimental iPhone/iPod mode just for kicks.
The new customer website is almost done. Teppefall.app (app.teppefall.com) is written in Teppefall Dynamics, OSCache, PostgreSQL and JSP/JSTL. It has a simple bookmark functionality similar to del.icio.us, search, a web store and now serves as the primary download page.
You are looking at XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS 2.0 (dynamic min-width layouts), RSS/ATOM, JavaScript+XML (AJAX bookmarks, dynamic table sorting, image preview, RSS feeds) and PNG24 graphics.
Javascript libraries are Prototype, Scriptaculous, JQuery, JQuery Tablesorter, Lightbox and TwitterJS.
You should also check out the Teppefall Twitter feed. I sometimes add links pointing to desktop related articles and videos. I am very much Adobe's bitch, so it is very slanted/biased/slutty/etc.
Have a nice weekend.
