Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 21:47:46 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <87twfk93vu.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <874m7k86ll.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <87invz70cf.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <6d079eda-a048-4c50-8068-8645da1a6c50@googlegroups.com> <87y44v5751.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <492f2ad4-ca16-4c80-9d3c-c77087275369@googlegroups.com> <874m7i6hng.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 7SK6yTFfqwlIPNBLl3l7Qg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:35118 On 7/21/2016 1:10 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > On Thursday 21 Jul 2016 17:59 CEST, Eric Douglas wrote: >> On Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 11:44:07 AM UTC-4, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >>> At the moment I started I thought it was not easy, but it turned >>> out I knew not enough of Gimp. (Would not hurt to expand my >>> knowledge of that.) But I do not mind I started it. It never hurts >>> to have a pet project to learn things. :-D >> It could come in handy to learn code that has >> nothing to do with your job in case you would need it on the job >> someday, or for something else you say you know on an application >> for the next job. Otherwise my pet project is my company's API, I've > > Nowadays most applications are written as a web application, so maybe > it will not help me to land a new project, but I find it interesting > anyway. :-) Business applications usually have web GUI's. But consumer applications are still often fat (Windows desktop, Android, iOS etc.). They are just rarely done using Swing. :-) Anyway - I think some basic Swing knowledge is part of "basic knowledge" for Java developers. It may used as a common reference context. So I think you are doing the right thing. Arne