Some (old) News !

Well it's been a while since my last post but i am alive :)

A lot of things happend since then, i am now working in an SOA project but more about that later.

Maybe two of the most noteworthy news are

Netbeans 6.7 Milestone 2 is out, one of the new features or improvments are the maven support which brings better code completion, frofiling for maven based J2EE applications and support for web services and consumtion and more performance improvements. Read the complete list here 

Give it a try, Download it!  

But if you want a much stable version Netbeans 6.5.1 is out too get it here

The second excinting old news is the annoucments of Google Summer of Code 2009. (or gsoc 2009) wich is according to the official faq :

Google Summer of Code is a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects.  Historically, the program has brought together over 2,400 students with over 230 open source projects, to create millions of lines of code. The program, which kicked off in 2005, is now in its fifth year. If are feeling nostalgic or are interested in learning more about the projects we have worked with in the past, check out the 2006, 2007 and 2008 program pages.

and they will accept applications from students through 19:00 UTC on April 3rd

the gsoc web site http://socghop.appspot.com

The java apps of the week on the javaposse

i just finished listening to the javaposse podcast episode 204 and they presented two Java apps this week the first one is called JavE or Java ASCII versatile Editor, and it allows to draw in ASCII characters even in free hand mode it's a really cool app since you can create ASCII arts and insert them in your email or to comment your source code with diagrams and it allows even to get animations here is an example with a Dilbert image:
the other java Application discussed in the javaposse this week, which is my favorite, is actually a web app based on applet and called Wordel and it's a nice tag cloud generator, based on a list of words, a blog feed, an RSS or ATOM or even a user name in delicious.com it will generate a printable tag cloud which can be easily customized so you can change colors, fonts and layouts. here is what my delicious tags looks like in Wordel :

About The Purple Cow

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Welcome to my new blog The Purple Cow, My name is Khaled Essghaier and i am computer science engineer from Tunisia. The name of this blog is actually inspired by a Ted Talk where Seth Godin, a marketing guru, explained why bad or bizarre ideas are more successful when it comes to get attention. So among other things this blog's aim is to get your attention on the thoughts and enthusiasm of a CS engineer getting to know the software industry and working mostely with Java and C#/.Net technologies