Finally!

I think it has been years already since I setup this blog so that I could publish interesting observations and experiences I made while working with Java, but I either never had the time to post anything or when I did have the time I just didn't run into anything that I thought would be of interest to anyone else (or I couldn't remember it, after all it is the computer's job to replace my long term memory).

So what changed? I guess it is the amount of interesting work that I am doing right now that made sure I would remember some of it. My work is currently split up into two items.

The first one, which takes up around 60% of my time, is my consulting job for a company called Qnamic in Switzerland. They developed a railroad scheduling application that can be extremely well tailored to individual customer requirements. It is my job at Qnamic to develop a rich client application (RCA) based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) that is equally customizable.

The second item is my work on FlexGantt, which is a Swing-based library for creating Gantt charts. FlexGantt will be the successor to the very successful DJT library, which I had developed between 1996 and1999 when I worked inside the Intelligent Coordinaten and Logistics Laboratory (ICLL) at the Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon (CMU) in Pittsburgh.

These two tasks constantly produce interesting experiences with Java and I hope that I will find the time from now on to write about it. Any feedback from your side is more than welcome.