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I use TextPad/Notepad++. Textpad because it's hands down the best lightweight Java IDE out there. Notepad++ because it's one of the most versatile lightweight IDEs that supports conceivably any compile-able language with user-made scripts to handle compiling, executing, etc...

They're just images found on Google. I had a hell of a time finding even one set of chess pieces that were trimmed accordingly and looked good.. Found a white set though, so I used a photo editing program to make the black set. I think they turned out fairly decent considering some of my other, previous choices.

Yes, it could, but I'm still new at making apps for the most part. In any case, I've only begun to get the pieces to move as they should. Even then, I'm working to add move highlighting for each of the pieces which, depending on the pieces position and move style, highlights squares which you can take or move to.

When I finish it up, I may attempt to port it over to Android, given I can figure out painting constructors to properly render and double-buffer it.

Progress thus far: http://i.imgur.com/QXN07.png -- The cyan highlighted square is the block containing the mouse. The red highlighted squares are the selected piece (White Pawn) and it's current available moves to overtake one of the two highlighted black pawns.

Currently hopping between old projects, and a Chess Applet; I just happen to be updating the Java IRC Clients UI at the moment.

Making some decent headway utilizing Tabs within a JFrame. Only pain in the ass is the fact I have to keep an array entry for each component stored in the panel.. :/

You could do everything books have to offer twice as fast on the internet by reading guides, programming documentation, and building code on your own. All while saving money on something that likely has a one time useful life.

Apparently testing is no longer a requirement for posting snippets... Never seen such a train wreck.

Yeah my old XPS is a dual core running at 2.5 GHz and it runs just fine. The new desktop has spoiled me to the point that my laptop seems slow D:

Yeah, I wouldn't get an i3 purely because it's processing power is barely better than my current dual core @ 2.5GHz.

I recently built a desktop with an unlocked FX 8120 AMD 8-Core processor running at 3.1GHz each with 8GB of RAM. However, I would have no need for a processor that powerful, that's overkill even for a monster program like Java. The AMD FX 8120 is the little brother of the 8150, even then they don't roll out 8 core processors for laptops I believe.

The new ones are rolling out with 3rd generation Intel core i3, i5, and i7 processors. You can always customize them to be 64 bit compatible (8GB Ram). I believe the processors themselves are either dual or quad core depending on the type you get.

I'm a Computer Science major, so naturally it'll need a little bit of juice. I was thinking about picking up a new VAIO since my current laptop is an XPS I've had since ~2007 and it's starting to fall apart. I'm currently still waiting to hear what they have to say about it, and whether or not it's a lost cause.

@Hawkee I'm ashamed to admit this but, I've dropped my XPS several times, which accounts for most of it's current damage. Although, I just got a call that it's done.

Ah, ok. I have a friend that goes by Paradox/Paradigm on occasion. But yeah, I think something along those lines is what you're looking for.

Yeah I ended up snagging some of my snippets off here to configure Notepad++ on the new desktop computer. The execute commands are a pain to get them just right, but I seem to have gotten it setup to compile it to jdk 1.6 or jdk 1.7 optionally which is nice.

Replace the edit box with a component more conducive to its function; like a combo box or a list/edit-box combination. I made a snippet a long time ago to, more or less, save links and then recall them using lists to select an entry.

Also, what server are you on? Your name seems familiar.

Thinking about purchasing a netbook for developing and school purposes alike. Thoughts? Pros? Cons?

Not that I've been developing much lately, but now that I'm in the mood I remember that all my data is on the laptop at the shop.. Fannntastic.

Sorry man, but it just doesn't look aesthetically pleasant to me. Confusing UI, and overall does not look very user friendly.

What I don't get is why on line 18 you set %thunder to itself repeatedly?

I'm on Sprint, who seems to be the most lenient of the carriers when it comes to data usage. I like them though, they don't bitch when I use 2GB of data tethering when I'm out of town or what not.

HTC makes great phones... I've had my Evo 4g for, give or take, 3 years and it's running as strong as ever.

Was toying with the idea of implementing multiple socket connections, and the ability to listen to specific socket data streams into my most recent Java script, JiRC. So, in short, I'm just testing the waters to see how difficult it would be to accomplish.

Although, I still need to reform the UI before I can implement anything like this, so it's likely to be awhile especially so now that summer has arrived.

Playing around with multi-socketing in Java using an array of Sockets. It works nicely to manage multiple connections at once.

Total: 8,867 and my most popular snippet -- ironically my first snippet -- was my mIRC Theme http://www.hawkee.com/snippet/6684/ with 2,383 views.

Na, it'll compress space somewhat, and you can more easily pass data between the two I believe. Forgive me if I am wrong though, I don't code mSL anymore.

I meant making a universal text event and parse the trigger with incoming text events.

etc.

I think you may be right on that account.

I was rather impressed by the yin-yang.

You could combine all your text events into one, which would allow for some use of local variables. Pending usage of your aliases, meaning if the alias is used twice or less, you could cut out the aliases and use the code segments themselves.

In short, it could be done with a little restructuring and optimizing of your code.

Lol a few towards the bottom are pretty neat.