Articles & Jars

About This Project

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This project is basically my dusty garage full of widgets, experiments, etc. I write articles about things that interest me, and I try to include a free toy with each article for your enjoyment.

I made all these projects public for a few reasons:

• It makes me finish them. It makes me care more about architecture and appearance if I know other people might look at these mini-projects.
• Feedback. Other developers can chime in: either helping me with problems or just offering critiques.
• Giving back to the open-source community. I've used a lot of open-source code in my short career as a developer -- now I'm contributing stuff, too.

One of my main organizational goals in these projects so to keep them small. I envision my target user to be a developer scouring the web for, say, a nice color chooser dialog. This developer doesn't want to download a 1 MB library of everything I've written: he/she wants a small jar they can pop into their library and run with.

Contact Me

You're welcome to contact me regarding any questions/comments about this project: mickleness@javagraphics.dev.java.net.