SmartGWT + Liferay

One picture is better than 128K words:

Yep, it works as expected. How to do this? Same as you would do any GWT-based portlets, just use SmartGWT as widget set transparently.

Java, Image Processing and OSX

A little annoying thing happens, when you do image processing in Java, using Apple OS X: although your code supposed to run in background, you still notice some additional process, that triggers Quartz and something appears on a Dock.

To cure this, you need to run AWT head-less. To do this, add a system property in your main() right before anything else:

System.setProperty("java.awt.headless", "true");

Linux User Books

Linux User Books, originally uploaded by I.S.B.M..

Japanese books about Linux. Found at Open Source summit at Tokyo.