Uploading videos to Facebook

This week I uploaded some videos from my mobile phone to Facebook, but my friends complained that the audio got out of sync with the video.

After a few experiments I tracked this down to Facebook’s re-encoding process, since the source videos are fine.

Printing charts in SWT with JFreeChart and Paperclips

The new RapiTime GUI uses the Paperclips library to generate printed reports. Integrating charts into the reports can be accomplished using JFreeChart, but there are some extra tweaks needed to make it work.

ExtJS 2.1 and Ext-GWT (Gxt)

I noticed today that the latest version of Ext has been released, ExtJS 2.1. Also, the first beta of an official GWT mapping for Ext is now available, Gxt 1.0 Beta 1. Both are now available from the public repository.

Sausage, Apple and Mustard Ragoût

We’ve cooked sausage, apple and mustard stew a few times now. It’s a pretty good recipe.