Swing Rocks

We just added Feedjii to Kenai so if you’re interested in the code, want to take part in the development or just want to try out the application go to

http://kenai.com/projects/feedjii

and browse around but before you do you should know that we don’t consider the codebase to be complete or perfect. We know of several bugs and some really bad design choices but after all this is just a hobby project and if you don’t like what you see fix it youself

It seems like all energy was drained from us after the JavaOne event and that’s the reason why it’s been eerily silent. After a long and appreciated summer vacation it’s now time to do some fun java coding again. The positive feedback we got from the conference really mades us want to come back and talk more about Swing and good looking UIs. I can’t give any details or show any screenshots yet (because there are none) but we are working on a lot of new stuff both with Swing and JavaFX.  We’ll write more about that later.

A thing that’s been bugging me is the lack of KineticScrolling examples. Guess there’s no one to blaim but myself and that’s we I’m currently writing a  ”Top 50 Project Kenai” application. The reason I think this is a good idea is not only because I want to demonstrate the KineticScrolling component but also because it seems to me that Project Kenai is litteraly flooded with crappy projects that the world would be much better without. I really think that Kenai is a good idea but I want to be able to browse other projects without all the “This is a just a test project” comming in my way all the time. So “Top 50 Project Kenai” is nothing but an application that shows the top 50 projects on Kenai excluding, among other things, all projects that contains one of the words “test” and “hello”.

One last thing, we’ve been talking about adding Feedjii to Kenai and event though it’s not “perfect”  I still think it’s a good idea. Maybe someone else would like to help us out?