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An effervescing elephant …

Open source software keeps going strong! Elephants Dream is a short film (about 11 min.) made with open source software and freely available for everyone!

Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license.

Congratulations to all the authors!!

Here comes the summer!

Onde se nota que vai chegando a temporada estival é (entre outras muitas cousas) nos concertos e festivais de música.

Nas próximas semanas/meses teremos por aqui perto a artistas como por exemplo Morrissey, os Yeah Yeah Yeahs ou Kiko Veneno.

Esta semana vamos abrindo boca: o Festival do Norte 2006 (Vilagarcia de Arousa), com conhecidos convidados internacionais como The Divine Comedy ou os clássicos Echo & The Bunnymen.

Além disto, no Festival Sinsal (Vigo) actuará esta mesma semana o duo finês de electrónica experimental Pan Sonic.

Hotswapping code in Java

A nice feature present in the latest JVM versions is the ability to hotswap a class: that is, to modify a class from a running application without having to restart it. This obviously helps to speed up the development process.

Eclipse takes advantage of this feature (it’s called Hot code replacement), and its users claim that it’s one of the best reasons to use this IDE. However, as it’s really a feature of the JVM, you can use it too without needing to use Eclipse at all. For example, Netbeans has it too, and it’s named Apply code changes.

But what happens if you don’t use an IDE with this feature? No problem. David Kavanagh has written a Hotswap task for Ant, so you can replace your running code from the command line and benefit from this feature from within Emacs or whatever editor you like.

Good hotswapping!