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Laird Nelson

Laird Nelson



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Laird Nelson is happiest immersed in server-side frameworks and middleware, where he has spent the better part of nine years obsessed with software reuse.  He has worked for both the Davids and Goliaths of the Boston area as engineer, architect, reuse evangelist, contractor and consultant.  He also plays a mean Hammond B3.

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Useful Swing Thing #1: The first of (hopefully) a series of quick, useful Swing tips.
Posted by ljnelson on December 17, 2007 at 12:35 PST | Permalink | Discuss (5)  

Objects and Strings and the Wrangling Thereof (Part 2): Part two of a series, in which we look at (and recoil in horror from) the java.text.Format class.
Posted by ljnelson on August 31, 2007 at 08:07 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Objects and Strings and the Wrangling Thereof: PropertyEditors, Formats, and JFormattedTextFields, oh my!
Posted by ljnelson on August 27, 2007 at 10:49 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Anemic vs. Obese Domain Objects: In which we discuss the design of a good domain object.
Posted by ljnelson on July 11, 2006 at 09:34 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

Of Detachable Root Panes and Desktop Hopping: How to build a desktop-hopping JRootPane subclass.
Posted by ljnelson on June 20, 2005 at 16:06 PST | Permalink | Discuss (5)  

Cheap Hack I: rename your jar file, get a different Main-Class: How to get a different Main-Class for your jar file based off the jar file's name.
Posted by ljnelson on September 20, 2004 at 12:09 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

Seventeenth century object design: John Locke on designing reusable objects.
Posted by ljnelson on September 02, 2004 at 08:10 PST | Permalink | Discuss (16)  

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