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Most applications have splash screens. What are splash screens? It is the nice little image that is displayed when you launch an application. The splash screen typically displays the name of the ...

At JavaZone 2010 I will be giving a lightning talk on APIs that use dynamic subclasses. These APIs make it possible to do things in Java that seem like pure magic. Here are some ideas of what you can ...

I'm not sure if this is the right board, but here goes! I've got an idea for a sim game that I want to make in my spare time. My goal is to make a tycoon-style game, maybe something like Game Dev ...