Can you believe this ?

For the second time in last month I went to the mountains and I was corrupted to try skiing..the pictures attached are some prove to my willingness
A static one

and .. a dynamic one
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Tuning Eclipse Performance

EclipseZone - Tuning Eclipse Performance and Avoiding OutOfMemoryExceptions is a nice article to read .. and if you are a Java developer using Eclipse as your IDE , it may turn that it's really necessary.
Enjoy .. and happy tuning !

truelicense: The TrueLicense Library Collection

truelicense: The TrueLicense Library Collection is a collection of Java packages used to securely create, install and verify application licenses for closed source applications.
Looks like a nice thing to try .. and use in some context.

Gnash - GNU Flash Movie Player

Gnash - GNU Project Flash movie player is based on GameSWF, and supports many SWF v7 features.
Features:
Runs standalone: Gnash can run standalone to play flash movies.
Firefox plugin: Gnash can also run as a plugin from within Firefox.
SWF v7 compliant: Gnash can play many current flash movies.
XML Message server: Gnash also supports an XML based message system as is documented in the Flash Format specification.
High Quality Output: Gnash uses OpenGL for rendering the graphics.

Eventum Issue / Bug Tracking System

Eventum Issue / Bug Tracking System is a user-friendly and flexible issue tracking system that can be used by a support department to track incoming technical support requests, or by a software development team to quickly organize tasks and bugs. Eventum is used by the MySQL AB Technical Support team.
Eventum is available under the GNU GPL.
System Requirements
PHP 4.1.0 or newer versions
o PCRE Extension (usually enabled by default with newer PHP versions)
o Session Extension (usually enabled by default with newer PHP versions)
o MySQL Extension (built-in support with most PHP distributions)
o GD Extension
MySQL Database Server
Worths a look .. kind of sober screenshots, though :)

iReport - new version 0.5.3

iReport has released a new version 0.5.3 which supports JasperReports 1.1.1 (without crosstabs).
I think I'm going to upgrade too enjoy the frames and styles.

ImageMagick: Convert, Edit, and Compose Images

ImageMagick is a free software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a large variety of formats. Images can be cropped, colors can be changed, various effects can be applied, images can be rotated and combined, and text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves can be added to images and stretched and rotated.

ImageMagick is free software: it is delivered with full source code and can be freely used, copied, modified and distributed. Its license is compatible with the GPL. It runs on all major operating systems.

Most of the functionality of ImageMagick can be used interactively from the command line; more often, however, the features are used from programs written in the programming languages C, Ch, C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl/Tk, for which ready-made ImageMagick interfaces (PerlMagick, Magick++, PythonMagick, MagickWand for PHP, RMagick, TclMagick, and JMagick) are available. This makes it possible to modify or create images automatically and dynamically.

ImageMagick supports many image formats (over 90) including formats like GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, TIFF, and DPX.

Blender 3D

Blender is a full functional integrated 3D creation software suite. It lets users create high quality 3D graphics, movies and replay real-time, interactive 3D content. Over the last decade, Blender has evolved as an in-house tool for a leading European animation studio. Blender is powerful technology used for creating broadcast quality 3D content.

Blender is being released with source codes under the GNU Public License.
Blender therefore is fully free to use and distribute within any educational, professional or commercial environment.

Issue Tracker Application Choice

OpenPoint Issue Tracker is a web-based tool designed to monitor and report progress toward resolving issues, bugs, service requests and enhancements. Issues are organized by project, subproject and category.
Could be a free alternative to Jira but .. only if your needs are covered by OpenPoint. I saw that there is a requirement for JDBC-ODBC MS Access .. so the database used is obvious ..
Maybe I'll give it a try.. it's free but not open-source.

Finally, a period of rest and joy

Today is the last day of active working, the project I was contributing is now on vacantion; of course there are some things to improve, to polish .. but that will have to wait until the first week of the next year.
Until then, I'll enjoy the holidays, resting and thinking about future projects ..
I wish you to enjoy best moments with your dearest, like I'm planning on doing.

EJBCA - The J2EE Certificate Authority - Welcome

EJBCA 3.1.3 is now available: fixing some bugs and releasing some new features like that
Release Notes - EJBCA - Version EJBCA 3.1.3

Bugs

-[ECA-75] - SCEP not working with Hard token CAs (HSMs)
-[ECA-107] - can't view logs using oracle due to column 'comment'
-[ECA-139] - It is not possible to use a HSM to sign a pkcs10 req to an external root CA.
-[ECA-141] - Unstable default idle-timeout for datasource
-[ECA-144] - Scep not working with Cryptlib
-[ECA-145] - Bug in hard token profile pages, Nullpointer when changing profile type or saving new pages
-[ECA-147] - Star (*) not working in subject alt names
-[ECA-148] - Scep not working with Cisco PIX
-[ECA-149] - unstructuredName/address in DN does not work
-[ECA-153] - cli not working on windows when java_home contains space char
-[ECA-154] - install does not work when JAVA_HOME contain space char
-[ECA-155] - OCSP using CA key does not work with HSMs
-[ECA-156] - binary chars in ejbca-mail-service.xml
-[ECA-160] - display of mail.smtp.host during ant deploy is wrong (cosmetic)
-[ECA-165] - Not possible to remove UnstructuredName from entity profile
-[ECA-167] - CN Postfix doesn't work if UID have the same value or DN is reversed
-[ECA-168] - Hard Token SN search doesn't work with primecard 1.3 >
-[ECA-169] - Hard Token Profiles cannot be cloned
-[ECA-170] - Malformed SVG Template craches the Hard Token Profile pages
-[ECA-171] - Typo in language file
-[ECA-176] - Method CertUtil.getEMailAddress(X509Certificate certificate) hangs jboss
-[ECA-177] - SCEP not working with Netscreen/Juniper boxes
-[ECA-180] - Select, unselect javascript features doesn't work anymort

New Features

-[ECA-109] - Support RSASSA-PSS signatures
-[ECA-140] - Add $UID as a variable to the SVG templates
-[ECA-181] - Javascript checks use unicode for internationlized chars
-[ECA-182] - Possible to select a subset of fields in DN and Subject AltNames in the certificate profiles
-[ECA-186] - Possibility to specify the BasicConstraint path length

Improvements

-[ECA-146] - Device schema for sun directory server missing X-ORIGIN
-[ECA-159] - Not possible to view historical data in CertReqHistory
-[ECA-161] - easy configuration of smtp auth
-[ECA-163] - Describe how to install com.mysql.jdbc.Driver in the documentation
-[ECA-178] - Better error messages when HSM provider not found
-[ECA-183] - Possible to configure for different JBoss targets
-[ECA-185] - new version of batik lib

Modify Firefox 1.5 to work with all extensions

Scattered » Modify Firefox 1.5 to work with all extensions is a thing that preocupies my since I tried the first release candidate of Firefox 1.5. I hope that this solution will work for you too.
Good luck !

Xerto

Xerto is a very nice looking application that kept my eyes on their site for about an hour just looking at the different screenshots .. it's a place to visit .. and if you are interested, buy something !
PS: I have no connection with the autors of application or Xerto web site ..

Apache Derby 10.0.2.1 Release

Apache Derby 10.0.2.1 : Apache Derby 10.0.2.1 was released, fixing some of the problems of previous versions.
Enjoy because is a good database ..and is free !

JNLP Java Web Start update in progress

Cafe au Lait Java News and Resources: "Sun's posted the maintenance review change log for the Java Network Launching Protocol and API (a.k.a. Java Web Start) specification. Changes are fairly significant and include an update element to indicate the preferences for how application updates should be handled by the JNLP client, a check attributes to specify when the JNLP client should check for updates, and a policy attributes to tell the client what to do when an update is available before the application is launched."

FlightGear Flight Simulator version 0.9.9 released

FlightGear Flight Simulator: "The FlightGear flight simulator project is an open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight simulator development project. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License.

The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, for the development and pursuit of other interesting flight simulation ideas, and as an end-user application. We are developing a sophisticated, open simulation framework that can be expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in contributing."

For the interested ones, is a refference you can't afford to miss ! At least at this price ! :)

Home - GeoTools

GeoTools has released version 2.2M2 which is a nice thing to know and with this .. the "brother" uDig.

Sun Java Studio Tools - FREE Award-winning IDEs

Sun Java Studio Tools - FREE IDEs : Now lets get serious about developing a web application in Java with these free IDE from Sun !!
If you are after a IDE with full JSF support, this is the way to go .. and from now on without paying for the precious IDE assistance !
There are some very interesting flash presentations here Sun Java Studio Creator. Enjoy a full featured IDE ! I'm waiting for the counterpart from Eclipse Platform ! Aren't you ?

Robert Half Technology 2006 Salary Guide

Robert Half Technology 2006 Salary Guide is a interesting information for those who care about their income and the tendinces in the market ! Enjoy the PDF read ..

Steel dolphin Creative - Color Scheme tool

Steel dolphin Creative - Color Scheme tool is a nice tool with intuitive interface for easily creating your color schemes in web apps or desktop apps. There are some other alternatives to this color scheme creator, maybe some of them are better, but this worths a place in your bookmarks.
Enjoy the play of colors !