By sam () | February 27, 2009 - Posted in Design, Java, Swing
Yesterday I got an email from Sun that a talk I submitted for JavaOne titled, “Developing LimeWire: Swing for the Masses” was accepted! (If you follow LimeWire’s twitter account, you already know.) Pretty nifty, considering it’s the first time I (or anyone here) has submitted a proposal to talk at JavaOne. Mike E & I […]
By sam () | February 6, 2009 - Posted in post mortem
Editor’s note: this blog is another account of the LW 5 Post Mortem.
Some things That Went Right
The LimeWire client team has some amazing people on it. Every single person on the team cares about the quality of the product, code, and the other people. It’s easy to find someone who just cares about one of […]
By sam () | April 21, 2008 - Posted in Coding, Guice, JMock
Back in November, I wrote about LimeWire starting to convert to Guice. Now, 4 months later, we’re enjoying the fruits of our labor. We can easily add dependencies and write useful tests. Take this diff fragment:
@@ -37,6 +48,12 @@
*/
class StoreDownloaderImpl extends ManagedDownloaderImpl implements StoreDownloader {
+ /**
+ […]
By sam () | November 26, 2007 - Posted in Coding, Guice
At the end of July, we began the long and arduous process of converting LimeWire’s core code to use dependency injection. LimeWire has hundreds of thousands of lines of code, and it was never designed with dependency injection in mind. “Why Switch?!” you ask? During the month plus of lost development time, we […]
By sam () | September 15, 2006 - Posted in Coding, Community, Open Source, P2P
Are you a researcher? Do you use the LimeWire code or the Gnutella network for your work or research? Then let us know by sending an email to researchers-at-limewire.com! We’re interested in highlighting any and all intellectuals who are learning or advancing the state of peer-to-peer research. We’re especially interested in those individuals or groups […]
By sam () | July 9, 2006 - Posted in Blogs, Coding, Open Source, P2P, Torrent
While LimeWire’s BitTorrent integration is making its way through the blogosphere and other sites, more than a few people have been concerned that LimeWire would increase the amount of leechers. Over at TorrentFreak, Iceman agreed with Jasperwillemn, saying, “Yes i absolutely agree with you man [that Torrent users prefer programs where everything can […]
By sam () | July 4, 2006 - Posted in Community, Music, NYC Life, P2P
The 4th of July… a busy, busy weekend. My sister got married, I saw Phil Lesh & Friends, Argentina lost to Germany, Germany lost to Italy, and countless people are preparing to set off firecrackers and wave sparklers around. Right now, though, I’m testing LimeWire’s BitTorrent integration. I was so taken with […]
By sam () | June 29, 2006 - Posted in Coding, Open Source, Updates
LimeWire has a long history with Java. We began by supporting Java 1.1.8. At that time, LimeWire could run on Mac Classic, used a “swing.jar” package for Swing classes, a “collections.jar” package for the collections classes (such as List, Map, etc..), and had all sorts of backwards compatability code. After version 4.0 […]
By sam () | June 21, 2006 - Posted in Coding, Open Source, P2P, Software Release
LimeWire 4.12 is released! This is the first major update of LimeWire since 4.10.9 was released over 4 months ago.
LimeWire 4.12 is a major improvement to LimeWire, including many new and improved features to keep LimeWire safe, secure, and speedy. This release contains support for ’secure results’, which will prevent spammers from sending search results […]
