Any Java developer who works with tabbed panes in their applications knows that the basic JTabbedPane doesn’t provide out-of-the-box functionality to close tabs. Ten years ago that was fine, but these days we expect to be able to click little buttons on our tabs and close them. Until Java 6, it just wasn’t possible to […]

It has been far too long since I have sat down to sort through the accumulating mass of digital imagery on my machine—I still haven’t even tried to winnow down the hundreds of photos we brought back from Brazil in September. Last Tuesday morning I went outside for a walk to see what damage hurricane […]