Java Fogy Observations of an old software developer working on young technology

There are a number of challenges encountered in establishing test automation for Facebook applications. Among them is the fact that web browsers consider Facebook canvas applications to live in a separate security sandbox from the top-level page. This blog post describes how to use the Selenium 2.0

Thanks to Mark Briggs, the Gonzo Camp II event was well-run and very informative. The event brought together a variety of experts, practitioners and students of journalism. Mark's guidance and inspiration created a fertile environment for the development of a variety of entrepreneurial ideas for

I've been fumbling around a bit trying to get XText 0.7.2 working in my Eclipse 3.5 installations, so I thought it might be helpful to write down what I've found. There are 3 update sites that were needed in order to complete the update today. MWE SDK from EMFT→ http://download.eclipse.org/modeli

In a multi-language project, Eclipse is a crucial tool for a number of reasons that might be apparent to readers of other posts here. One of the languages that is important in this particular project is Groovy. Until the end of July 2009, the Groovy Eclipse plugin was a rather cursory integration

The Eclipse environment with Xtext provides an astoundingly powerful toolset. The EMF/TMF folks are doing a great job providing good capabilities with straightforward means of tailoring and extension. That said, there's a lot to the environment that can make some tasks appear more daunting than n

Andrew McKinlay's post The Software Life: Antlr Frustrations on "no start rule" warnings gives a succinct explanation of a problem that can be somewhat evasive. The ANTLR warning "no start rule (no rule can obviously be followed by EOF)" may come and go as other issues with the grammar are resolved.

The Java Native Interface is a powerful API that allows Java to call native libraries and also allows native executables to invoke Java (or any JVM-based) classes. An important addition to the Java Native Interface in Java 1.4 was support for java.nio.ByteBuffer parameters. This allows the native

The Xtext parser generator is generating much more than a parser—otherwise ANTLR by itself would be a simpler solution. As noted in my post on migrating the Xtext grammar, just by deploying the plugins generated by Xtext, a basic outline is provided while editing the defined language. For my anal