I’m currently working on a little Grails bug tracking application which should see the light of day on Sourceforge sometime in the new year. One of the features I just love about Jira is the RSS support – I’m always watching the Grails recently closed issues to see what’s been fixed in the SVN. So I decided to see what’s involved in generating a feed. I could use the standard Groovy MarkupBuilder for sure, but then [...]

I’m a long-time fan of exe4j for creating nice .exe launcher for Windows users. It costs a few bucks, and there are some great open source alternatives,  but exe4j is just so feature packed, I’ve never had to look elsewhere. Every time I think "It’d be good if exe4j  supported.." I find that it does. This week’s adventure centred around designing a splash screen for PasswordSafeSWT, my little open source password manager. I’ve been putting [...]