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20040927 Monday September 27, 2004

Creator's Easter Egg

This is not going to help you in your day to day work, but.... here's how you can get to Creator's easter egg (if you're in Sun management, please look away...). Open the designer, drop an Output Text component, change its label to (exactly) "DonkeyOnTheEdge" (who can spot the movie reference?) and then double click on it. Voila!

You can use arrow up and down to speed up or slow down the scrolling list, and hit space to pause and unpause.

Hopefully nobody who participated in the 1.0 release were forgotten from the list. The easter egg code is hidden in a sneaky way inspired by some code obfuscation ideas by Peter van der Linden. I highly recommend his Just Java book. I think he has a new edition that he was signing at JavaOne right after the Creator book signing.

(2004-09-27 15:49:39.0) Permalink Comments [3]

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Java Studio Creator is just Sun's wannabe-product to compete with poor old Visual Basic, why doesnt anyone complain about "Other" companies copying Microsoft, but as soon as MS does something similar to another company everyone starts the sterotypical talk on MS... Java is old technology, dying old rusty technology. Sun needs to work extensively to improve the JavaVM before it's any use on any OS (including their own Solaris) in terms of performance.

Posted by TX on September 29, 2004 at 12:23 AM PDT #

TX, that was truly funny!

Posted by Mats Henricson on September 29, 2004 at 12:40 AM PDT #

Mats, you know you want Java to be popular, its been you life for a while now (as is so many others)... but face it, people arent as interested in Java as they once were. JSP for instance, isnt it going through many 'changes' to get more of a "ASP.NET" look and feel? Faces=ASP.NET Web Controls? Seeing java developers brag on about Java is even funnier:-)

Posted by TX on September 30, 2004 at 06:56 PM PDT #

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