About JChemPaint's future and todays 2.1.5 release

Stefan has done an excellent debugging week on JChemPaint, while I have been late with a 2.1 release. Anyway, I’ve just uploaded a Java 1.4 compiled JChemPaint 2.1 series release. I was told the (reported) bug count is down to one, so I expect to see the next stable branch to be released soon (2.2 series). 1 minute read

KDE 3.5 is out

KDE 3.5 was released with lots of changes. SuperKaramba is now a standard KDE application and is neatly integrated. It allows embedding themelets on your desktop background. less than 1 minute read

Getting Started with Eclipse and the SWT

Getting Started with Eclipse and the SWT is a very nice set of introductory tutorial on working with SWT and Eclipse in general. The tutorials cover the basic, advanced SWT widgets, SWT layout, and several other interesting topics. less than 1 minute read

A Blue Obelisk blog Planet

Today I setup a blog planet for Blue Obelisk members. First I tried Chumpologica but it did not read Atom feeds. less than 1 minute read

Open Source Swing: Jmol renderer runs!

Where I was able to mention earlier that JChemPaint now runs with free (as in open source) Java virtual machines, I just tried to run the core Jmol renderer, using the Integration.java which comes as an example. less than 1 minute read

Machine crash; SVN went along

Doesn’t happen often, but my machine crashed two hours ago. Not a big deal, because I have my important files in SVN. Oh wait, SVN had a commit in progress during the crash. So, svn recover. Mmmm… doesn’t work either. OK, SVN FAQ: try db_recover. That worked. No, it did not: svn commit still not working for the files I was trying to commit. Fortunately, I make regular SVN db backups so I created a brand new SVN repository from scratch and recovered the back up. That worked. Really. less than 1 minute read

Bioclipse: the chemo-/bioinformatics workbench

Some weeks back there was the CDK5AW , the CDK 5th anniversiry workshop. A small group of international open source chemo-, bioinformatics software developers met, among which two from Sweden. It was then decided to generalize their work resulting in Bioclipse: less than 1 minute read