By Dan | May 28, 2009 - Posted in Community, Java, Swing
Sam and Mike are presenting “Developing LimeWire: Swing for the Masses” at JavaOne, this Wednesday at 1:30. Their presentation is for all Swing developers targeting the Java™ 1.6 or later platform and discusses LimeWire’s new UI architecture. It covers tips and examples for using various technologies such as core Swing, SwingX, AppFramework, GlazedLists, and XUL. […]
By Dan | February 5, 2009 - Posted in Community, Design, Updates, post mortem
Editor’s note: this blog is another account of the LW 5 Post Mortem.
Some things That Went Right
Who’s your audience and what do they want?
I’ve read about it, seen the tire swing cartoon and heard co-workers mention the customer is key, but it was always lip service everywhere I worked. At least until the user experience […]
By Tim Julien | February 19, 2008 - Posted in Coding, Community
There are some interesting things going on Instant Messaging land these days. There is potentially going to be a shift from closed proprietary networks to ones built on an open standard called Jabber (aka XMPP, Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol). The technical details of Jabber, which I’ll explain below, make this a very […]
By fberger | November 2, 2007 - Posted in Coding, Community, LimeWire/Gnutella, Updates
LimeWire’s internationalization system gets a face lift switching to GNU gettext. In the process, we developed several Open Source tools that help the Java community with deploying gettext. Our translations are managed at Launchpad, Ubuntu’s great internationalization web community.
This article quickly juxtaposes LimeWire’s old system as it is often found in Java projects with a […]
By fberger | May 2, 2007 - Posted in Coding, Community, Software Release, Updates
We are pleased to announce Debian packages for Ubuntu!
We tested the packages on Ubuntu Edgy and Kubuntu Edgy/Feisty.
You can find packages for the latest beta release. Pro users can go to their download page and click on “new beta available”. The Basic version is available at http://www.limewire.com/download/beta.php.
We hope this makes the user experience more pleasant […]
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 […]
