John Treacy's Weblog

Tuesday December 20, 2005

Speaking of time

One of my hobbies is brewing beer. I've been at it quite a few years and I must say the results are pretty pleasing.

Over the years, I've occasionally written software to help me plan and track brewing sessions, mostly just the basic recipe calculations to help make sure the finished beer is in the desired style range and that I can reproduce it if I'm happy with the results. I don't really need to keep reimplementing the program, and there's both free and commercial software available, but it gives me an excuse to write some code.

I'm hoping to get some free time soon to brew a little and also work on a new version of the recipe calculator. The last one I did was an exercise to use Java Studio Creator, and so it was a JSF based web application using a database. For the next one, I think I'm going to go back to working on a swing based version, so I can play around with the latest Netbeans release. I really want a good reason to sink my teeth into Matisse and I'd also like to try my hand at basing the application on the Netbeans Platform for building rich client applications.

Sláinte!