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How not to do ebooks and customer service

The ever-observant

Snow Leopard: what I really like

Snow Leopard isn't the typical big leap most MacOS X versions have been, and I think it's smart marketing on the part of Apple to name it a variation on the previous version than waste a whole cat on it. Most of the features I don't really understand (Grand Central Dispatch) or care about [...]

Java: Localized number formatting

The other day, I had an NLS bug to respond to, and realized I didn't know how numbers were formatted for any locales other than English and French. Quick, to the JVM:

ar 3,141.59
ar_AE 3,141.59
ar_BH 3,141.59
ar_DZ [...]

JavaFX: binding property values to anonymous function calls

Summary: When binding to anonymous functions in JavaFX, make sure you bind to the value of evaluating the function rather than the function itself.
One of the most useful aspects of JavaFX is property binding. This allows a more declarative description of how the various UI and model components interact, and frees the user from [...]