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	<title>L. Mihalkovic</title>
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	<description>thinking out loud... mostly about technology</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Where our future is being hatched&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.laurentm.com/2008/08/large_hadron_collider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laurent</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Misc...]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[physics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These are beautiful pictures from LHC. The Large Hadron Collider is the latest super collider. It announces a shift back to Europe as the center place for High Energy physics. Back in April, CERN held Open Day 2008 so we took that opportunity to make a family trip from the US to Geneva to visit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple is really not a software company</title>
		<link>http://blog.laurentm.com/2008/07/apple-is-really-not-a-software-company/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.laurentm.com/2008/07/apple-is-really-not-a-software-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laurent</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mac OS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago I updated the firmware for my iPhone to 2.0, and transfered my .Mac account (not that I had any choice in the matter) to mobileMe. I should have known better&#8230; A minute ago my phone rang, and all I could do was listen to the ring until it stopped ringing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advanced SWT graphics</title>
		<link>http://blog.laurentm.com/2008/07/advanced-swt-graphics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laurent</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mac OS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[graphics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[swt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In parallel with my portable Cairo GC project, I have been working on a library to simplify the creation of better looking SWT application. In particular, I got interested in building a customizable widget that would adopt different looks on different platforms and in different parts of an application. This is an example showing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portable Cairo GC for SWT</title>
		<link>http://blog.laurentm.com/2008/07/portable-cairo-gc-for-swt/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.laurentm.com/2008/07/portable-cairo-gc-for-swt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laurent</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[cairo]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[swt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For several years I have been impressed with the work Romain Guy did to popularize some of the advanced graphic capabilities of Swing. It was his post on transparent windows on Mac OS that pointed me in the direction of the JNA API which I ended up using to prototype support for the Mac OS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supporting sheets in SWT on Mac OS</title>
		<link>http://blog.laurentm.com/2008/07/supporting-sheets-in-swt-on-mac-os/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.laurentm.com/2008/07/supporting-sheets-in-swt-on-mac-os/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laurent</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Eclipse]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mac OS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[swt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are a number of ui widgets that make Mac OS distinct from all other platforms. One of them is the presence of sheets. Sheets are basically document modal dialog windows. As such, they are attached to the document window that prompted their appearance, thereby simplifying the task of keeping track of which dialog is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better looking SWT apps on Mac OS</title>
		<link>http://blog.laurentm.com/2008/07/better-looking-java-apps-on-mac-os/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.laurentm.com/2008/07/better-looking-java-apps-on-mac-os/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laurent</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mac OS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[swt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since I started my own work to improve the look of Java SWT apps on Mac OS, I found two other similar on-going efforts.

The first one is aimed at Swing, and creates a unified toolbar lookalike to embed in standard JFrame instances. The code is pretty simple and clever, and more importantly does the job. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making SWT look more native on Mac OS</title>
		<link>http://blog.laurentm.com/2008/07/making-swt-look-more-native-on-mac-os/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.laurentm.com/2008/07/making-swt-look-more-native-on-mac-os/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laurent</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Eclipse]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mac OS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[jni]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[swt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in april, someone asked me if I had some thoughts about how to make an SWT app look and feel more like a real Mac OS application. Having only a couple days to think about it and the excellent Coda as a visual reference, I decided to create a silly file manager type application [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cocoa SWT</title>
		<link>http://blog.laurentm.com/2008/07/cocoa-swt/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.laurentm.com/2008/07/cocoa-swt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laurent</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Eclipse]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[swt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I made the switch to a Mac, it quickly became a apparent that there was going to be trouble in my new paradise when word started to leak out that Apple was going to retire Carbon as part of its move to 64bits.

So back last summer I started playing around with Cocoa and quickly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mac OS Java</title>
		<link>http://blog.laurentm.com/2008/07/mac-os-java/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.laurentm.com/2008/07/mac-os-java/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laurent</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mac OS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apple and Java are an interesting story&#8230;

A few weeks ago I got in touch with some of the people from the Apple Java Runtime team. There are all very talented and very nice people.. The only problem? there is only a handful of them&#8230; Considering the scale of their task, to adapt Sun&#8217;s Java runtime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Switching to a Mac</title>
		<link>http://blog.laurentm.com/2008/07/mac-switching/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.laurentm.com/2008/07/mac-switching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laurent</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mac OS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple years ago, and after many years being a faithful Windows and Linux user, I finally made the switch to a Mac. A friend of mine working for the Clusters Sun been telling me how convenient it was for him to use a Mac for all his work even compared to Linux (13 years [...]]]></description>
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