The Blog of Mark (SoftCoder) and Vickie Vejvoda

Technology and Software Development

To spare you the sanity, if you need to debug your java applets, since JDK 1.4 there is a new syntax required in the runtime parameters in the control panel applet side:
New format:
-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,address=5555,server=y,suspend=n
Old Evil format:
-Xdebug -Xnoagent -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=5555,server=y,suspend=n
There is a bug with the -XDebug parameter that causes multiple java consoles to open for each applet you [...]

If you have a copy of Windows XP (in my case installed as a virtual machine on a Linux Host) and you installed XP with only 1 CPU, you’ll be sad to notice that telling virtualbox (or upgrading your CPU to multi-core if not using VirtualBox) will not in itself allow XP to see the [...]

If you’re like my son, happily using his Le Pan II tablet because it sports awesome hardware and offers great performance. Unfortunately while trying many new programs from the google app store he was finding that many were NOT working. This lead to debate in the family as to whether or not the Motorola Xoom [...]

For a while I was looking for a good open source cross platform library to use for video playback in my open source software. After a long while I finally found libvlc, which does the job well.
If you want to see libvlc in action, with a wrapper class to play videos (local and streaming from [...]

Having worked on an RTS (real time strategy) open source game at sourceforge.net, I came across many challenges but also learned many things related to the world of open source. This article will attempt to discuss some of those things in the hope that the information helps other developers in the open source realm. I [...]