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The great new look and feel for Swing applications, Nimbus, is according Jasper’s blog (the ‘father’ of Nimbus) done. I haven’t tried the new version yet, but I am really looking forward to it.

Here a picture from the new look (screenshot is borrowed from Japser ) Thank’s Jasper and Nimbus team

I currently developing an application based on JRuby/Rails. I am pretty happy with that combination and I haven’t many issues until a few weeks ago. I am using NetBeans 6.1 and the shipped JRuby version 1.1.2. The problems began when I started to use ResourceBundles in Rails, hence, mixing Java and Ruby/Rails code. After that my tests didn’t compile anymore. The weird thing is that at first this seemed to occur randomly, but I then I found the problem line. Nevertheless, it didn’t help because a) the line was correct and b) I depend on using Java. After some research, yes I am mean I googled, I found not much. Continue Reading »