This is all over the Russian web sites, so i thought to translate it to English. I am most definitely not the original author.
Before having a baby…
To get a feeling about the coming nights, go around the room from five till ten in the evening holding a bundle weighing 6 to 10 pounds. At ten put the bundle down, set the alarm clock to twelve and go to sleep. Wake up at midnight and walk around the room holding the bundle until one o’clock. Set the alarm clock to three. Since you’re not going to fall asleep, get up at two and drink something. Go to bed at 2:45. Get up at three with the alarm. Sing in the dark until four. Set the alarm clock to five. Get up and make breakfast. Repeat for five years. Look happy.
Remove all the pulp from a watermelon and make a small side hole the size of a ping-pong ball. Hang it on the ceiling with a rope and swing from side to side. Take a bowl of wet cereal and try to use a spoon to put the cereal in the swinging watermelon, jumping like a grass hopper. Continue until the bowl is half empty. Empty the rest on your lap. You’re ready to feed a one-year old baby.
To get ready for the first steps of a baby, put peanut butter on the sofa and all the window drapes. Take a fishstick, shove it behind the entertainment center and leave it there for a couple of months.
It seems much easier to dress little children than it really is. Buy a fishnet bag and an octopus. Try to put the octopus into the fishnet bag so that none of the tentacles is sticking out. You have the whole morning to complete the exercise.
Forget about sportcars and buy yourself a minivan. Buy a chocolate icecream cone and put it in the glovebox. Leave it there. Squeeze a bag of cookies over the back seats. Take a rake and scratch both sides of the car. Excellent! Do you like it?
Prepare to go outside, then wait for half an hour next to the bathroom. Go outside. Go back. Go outside. Go back once again. Go outside and take a stroll. Go back. Take a stroll once again. Go along the road very slowly for five minutes. Stop every ten seconds to stare at cigarette butts, disposed chewing gums, dirty pieces of paper and dead insects. Go back. Loudly scream that you’ve had enough and you can’t take it any longer. Make sure that the neighbours are out and staring at you. You’re ready to try and take a toddler for a walk.
Go to a grocery store and take a creature most similar to a preschooler. A grown up goat is an ideal fit. If you’re planning to have more than one kid, take more than one goat. Buy your usual groceries, keeping an eye on the goats. Pay for everything that the goats eat or break.
Just before having your own baby, find a married couple that already have kids and point out the faults in how they train the kids, how they lack any patience and how they let their kids go crazy. Give advice on better sleep habits, potty training, good table manners and just good behavior. Don’t forget to enjoy yourself – this is the last time you’re going to have answers to any of these questions.
Starting today i am discontinuing support for Substance NetBeans module, including fixing bugs and synchronizing the module with Substance core libraries.
The development of this module was greatly facilitated in the beginning by Tim Boudreau, but unfortunately was met with less than lukewarm support from the NetBeans team (see comments on issue 66335 and issue 67463). A little over a year ago this module has been broken by the changes scheduled to appear in NetBeans 6.0, but those changes had been rolled back a month later, making the module usable once again. However, the core NetBeans code has not evolved to make it more friendly to third-party look-and-feels, and the development of Substance module has not been as productive and fulfilling as it could have been (as indeed was the case with SwingX).
Today marks the last day that this module is supported by me. It has been removed from the NetBeans plugin portal, and last sync with the core Substance library has been uploaded to the Documents & Files section of the java.net project. If you are interested in taking over the maintenance and development of this project on java.net, feel free to contact me at kirillcool [.at.] yahoo [@at@] com.
The demo applications for the Flamingo JRibbon component make heavy use of the SVG icons to make sure that the icons can be scaled without losing visual details. While Flamingo provides Batik-based implementation of the ResizableIcon interface, this has proven to place a noticeable burden on CPU during the application startup phase. One of the ways to address this performance issue is to use the SVG-Java2D transcoder that is part of Flamingo core distribution.
There’s nothing like eating your own dog food, and while trying to use the transcoded Java2D class to replace the runtime SVG decoding i found that it was lacking some of the basic functionality. The most glaring one was lack of API to query the default bounds of the SVG image. This is now exposed in the Java2D class with two static methods – getOrigWidth and getOrigHeight.
The second enhancement to the org.jvnet.flamingo.svg.SvgTranscoder class is the new setJavaToImplementResizableIconInterface(boolean) method. If you call this method prior to calling the transcode(), the resulting class will implement the org.jvnet.flamingo.common.icon.ResizableIcon interface, making it ready to be used instead of the org.jvnet.flamingo.svg.SvgBatikResizableIcon class. This comes handy since the heavy transcoding is done offline, and the size of the compiled class is comparable with the size of the compressed SVG file (especially if you turn the debugging info off). You can see the difference yourself by running the ribbon demo below – once the application frame is shown, all the icons are immediately visible and you can start interacting with it.
To change the package name of the generated Java2D class, call the setJavaPackageName(String) method prior to transcode() call. The last addition is the sample test.svg.SvgBatchConverter class that shows how to run the SVG-Java2D conversion in batch mode on all SVG files in a given folder.
Using the offline transcoding has another advantage – you don’t need to bundle the Batik jars that are around 3-4MB heavy. One point left to your consideration is the issue of the license of the original SVG images and its implications on the transcoded Java2D classes.
The last entry on Flamingo component suite talked about addition of contextual task groups, dynamic changes to in-ribbon galleries and reworked documentation. Over the past couple of weeks i have been working on the ribbon application title bar and formulating the future plans for the component itself.
The application title bar is a ribbon-specific feature that allows putting extra ribbon content on the title pane of the frame. In Office 2007 the application title bar contains the quick access toolbar and the headers of contextual task groups. Flamingo’s counterpart of quick access toolbar is the taskbar and up until now it has been placed to the left of the task toggle buttons. In addition, the contextual task group headers were not shown at all.
Putting content on the title pane requires close cooperation with the look-and-feel implementation, and as such is only available under Substance look-and-feel (interested developers are welcome to take a look at the code to see how this can be extended to other third-party LAFs that support decorated mode). Here are a few screenshots that show the new functionality in action.
The first screenshot shows the ribbon component with the taskbar automatically placed on the left hand side of the title pane. The taskbar has a few command buttons, one of them with a popup menu (click for the full size view):
The next screenshot shows the ribbon component with two visible contextual task groups. Note how the group headers are painted on the title pane and force the title text to be clipped:
The last screenshot shows the same component with one of the contextual tasks selected:
Here is what you need to use this functionality in your application:
The last point brings me to the future plans for the ribbon component. This is still work in progress that is targetting the next release (4.0), but you can already try it under the latest 3.1dev branch. The JRibbonFrame is going to be the only way to have a ribbon in your frame. It extends the JFrame and enforces that a JRibbon component is always in the BorderLayout.NORTH position. Under the hood, it also allows third-party look-and-feels (such as Substance) to “relocate” the taskbar to the title pane and paint the contextual task group headers. Going forward, the JRibbon class will have package-protected constructor. This will be part of 4.0 release to ensure easier transition to the new approach.
The plans for release 4.0 include providing the missing functionality from the Office 2007 Command Bar, including:
- Application title bar for other look-and-feels. The taskbar and contextual task group headers will be placed there (except when the application is running under Substance or other look-and-feels that will provide support for placing them on the frame title pane).
- Main application menu button.
- Pluggable resizability policies.
- Minimizing the ribbon.
- Horizontal scrolling for content under small widths.
- Better support for placing core controls and button groups in ribbon bands.
- Key tips.
- Screen tips (AKA rich tooltips).
To try the new title bar functionality in action, click the WebStart button below and use the “Group” checkboxes in the bottom control panel to show / hide the contextual task groups.
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