Yesterday a colleague approached me regarding the best method for associating arbitrary properties with an object in Java. The object currently has a Map<String,String> for which it exposes public setProperty and getProperty methods, but he wanted to be...

Jmol is a fantastic open source 3D viewer for chemical structures. I've exported images from the application many times, both as PNGs and for rendering with POV-Ray, but after a bit of digging and trial & error I've figured out how to automate the process...//...

Maven makes building java projects very easy, dealing with dependencies and transitive dependencies (dependencies of dependencies, dependencies of dependencies of dependencies etc...), but what happens if you want to run a program? Or to create a distribution...

Maven makes building java projects very easy, dealing with dependencies and transitive dependencies (dependencies of dependencies, dependencies of dependencies of dependencies etc...), but what happens if you want to run a program? Or to create a distribution...

Yesterday a colleague approached me regarding the best method for associating arbitrary properties with an object in Java. The object currently has a Map<String,String> for which it exposes public setProperty and getProperty methods, but he wanted to be...

Jmol is a fantastic open source 3D viewer for chemical structures. I've exported images from the application many times, both as PNGs and for rendering with POV-Ray, but after a bit of digging and trial & error I've figured out how to automate the process...//...

A belated welcome to Sam Adams - another member of the UCC group. Although technically a graduate student “writing up”, that doesn’t do justice to Sam’s contribution both to the group and to the community. Sam combines a wide range of...