Test Driving Swing Applications

I’ve done my fare share of developing Swing apps in my java years. Perhaps 40% of UI development in my 8 years of java experience is done in Swing. Now that’s a quite a big percentage these days, when most of my colleagues have never done any Swing and their UI development is mostly done [...]

Determination and willpower

I saw a video of a one-armed American high school kid, Porter Ellet, playing one of my favourite sports basketball. Not only did he manage himself against the others, but he is actually the team’s leader in scoring with only a single arm!
That really requires determination to Get Things Done. And that is a quality [...]

DoNotDisturb – An interesting “productivity tool”

Eric Sink’s blog had a quite an interesting post about a tool (DoNotDisturb), which blocks the user from running user configured programs, such as email, browser or anything that might block your important work in office.
Once configured to block a program from running on a certain time of day, the only way to unblock it, [...]