Archives "April 2009"

It would seem that Sun^HOracle is actually able to think outside the box a bit. The latest way they’re trying to get folks to learn JavaFX, is by a new online interactive game called PIE Theory. The idea is that you follow along with our two heroes, and help them unlock clues based on performing [...]

Humans love shiny. And there’s nothing more shiny to a programmer than a brand new version of a tool used every day. Here at Mystic we use IRC as our primary mode of communication and project collaboration, and several of us have chosen Weechat. Recently we wrote about receiving irc notifications from Weechat over ssh, [...]

Our initial plugin for IDEA that talked to MysticPaste.com was fairly simple, offered no feedback to the user that anything happened. I spent some time trying to find out a method of achieving unobtrusive notification that the paste was successful. On initial glance at the API, nothing jumped out except for Messages, and StatusBar.

From the beginning of building out Mystic Paste, the vision was to have multiple interfaces to allow ubiquitous use of the pastebin. With the variety of plugins we’ve got out now including Eclipse, IDEA, VIM, and NetBeans, that vision is definitely here. If you reached this link looking for the plugin, look no further, the [...]

Here at Mystic we’re invested in what the Java platform has to offer for our clients, and our developers. Since the IBM talks with Sun on purchasing, the community was in heated debates over what this would mean for the Java platform. As of this morning, unless stockholders and regulatory agencies veto anything, by this [...]

Most of our developers got an email weeks ago from Sun about the JavaFX Coding Challenge. We’ve got a great idea that we are working on implementing, and this contest just gives us some extra incentive to plow through and get it done in short order. The only caveat with the submission in this contest, [...]

In our previous post, we showed you how to use socat, ssh, and some fancy footwork to pipe a UDP-based request coming from Net::Growl, through a TCP-based reverse-proxy ala SSH, and back to the Mac as a UDP-request straight to Growl. What happens if you’ve got more than one person wanting to do the same [...]

Here at Mystic, we do a lot of remote work using IRC. And due to the heavy use of best of breed tools under OSX and Linux, we find ourselves working in a shell a lot of the day, along with our IDE. We like to keep in the Flow state for as much of [...]