The latest release of my SWT port of Passwordsafe went out the door this morning. This version fixes a bunch of layout issues on various platforms, adds sorting of password lists, implements password generation. You can grab source and binaries for Mac/Linux/Windows at my local site. This release is bound for the Sourceforge PasswordSafe project page – and should arrive there later this week if you want to wait for a much faster download link.

I love Jetty. It’s starts in 3 seconds, it’s a coupla jars, its config file is sensible to me, and it’s Australian. But I’ve hit issues with Jetty and logging before (specifically commons logging)… so I’m going to blog about this before I forget it (and so I can Google for it later – cause I keep forgetting the fix). Here’s the scenario, you’ve installed your webapp on Jetty and you’re wondering why your commons [...]

It was a big weekend. Installed a new cistern in the ensuite, took my family to the zoo, and packaged up a very early copy of my SWT port for Mac, Linux, and even Windows. Here’s a grab of the original Win32 C++ version of PasswordSafe: And here’s a copy of my PasswordSafeSWT port running on Windows: Aside from the icons needing some photoshopping, and the toolbar button being a little too wide, I’ve been [...]

So you’ve written your killer SWT app and you’re keen to bundle it in a nice clickable Mac application bundle for distribution on OSX? Such has been my journey for last few days. I reckon I’ve sunk around 10 hours into just this process over the last week, but I now have it working. First, let me show show off: (it’s good therapy) Ok, the resources that you need to read are: First, you need [...]

After beating my head against a wall for three hours wondering why setPath() and setDomain() were just not working on my Cookie object…. I got a brainwave. Maybe it wasn’t that the core libraries were broken…. maybe my payload was dodgy. It did have newlines in it, but the object would handle that for me, right? In retrospect I should have read the Javadoc With Version 0 cookies, values should not contain white space, brackets, [...]