Almost 14 months since the previous release, a new version fo XFN Graph has been released to the world.
A lot of ‘under the hood’ changes with this one, as I refactored almost everything to make it much easier to work with. The spider porition is now multi-threaded, so it spiders sites much faster now. I’ve also replaced the default JGraph visualization library with Prefuse; part of doing that was refactoring things so that new […]
There’s been a lot of talk about Java lately, mostly because JavaOne is currently underway in San Francisco, but it’s got me thinking about Java’s future, should it have one.
When Java was released in the early 90’s, it got itself a bad name, applets where overused, slow, and usually useless. The niche that was once filled by these applets has long been taken over by Flash now.
Java has made huge inroads on the server-side. Java Server Pages and similar frameworks […]
I just finished the relase of XFN Graph v1.2. This version removes the text labels on all the links, opting for a colour-coded approach. Maybe the choice between the text and the colours will be an option in a future version.
Here’s the list of what’s changed:
Added a more visual representation of what the links are.
Added Help.
Made the spider follow frames as belonging to the same site.
Fixed a bug whereby some sites didn’t get spidered because they were marked […]
