If you’re in the initial phases of setting up a new software project, one of the first things you should be thinking about is a project collaboration site. A good project site enables you to do at least two things:

Collect design documents and documentation in one place
Track and assign tasks/bugs/issues to developers

If used correctly, the […]

A while back we wrote an article called What’s Your Utilization, Kenneth. In that article we talked about a really cool web-app called Cacti. Today we will take this one step further by describing how to monitor remote servers using SSH tunnels.
In the scope of this article, we assume that you already have one […]

Yesterday we migrated Playing With Wire from our old FreeBSD Jail to a brand new VMware Virtual Server. The new server has a much faster CPU and much more RAM, which we hope will decrease the load-time.
The migration itself went smooth without any downtime for PWW. If you discover something that appears to be […]

We had a couple of hours of downtime this morning as a new diesel generator was installed at Playing With Wire’s hosting location. Sorry about that.

SwtCallback 0.1 was released only a little more than a week ago, but that’s not stopping us from releasing 0.2 today! In line with the original philosophy, SwtCallback has been extended to again reduce clutter and deep nesting in your Java code. This time SwtCallback attacks the Runnable interface.
As I wrote in my release post […]