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I added more clear application install links for everything that has a webstart. I also cleaned up those JNLPs to make sure they check (and install) updates when applicable. This is thanks to feedback from a JMd5Sum user (thanks!). If you have ideas to make my site or applications easier to use, I’m glad to hear them.

Check out the updated software page here: http://nule.org/wp/?page_id=54 for all the webstarts I currently host. Those apps also all have webstarts at the top of their main pages as well.

(And yeah, HL7 Comm v0.8 is coming soon!)

I’m much closer to HL7 Comm 0.8 than last time I wrote, but I’m not ready to release it yet. Something I want to do with setting the configuration values doesn’t work as well as I’d like, so I need to either get it working or think of a different way of doing it. I don’t understand why JTables in Swing are so hard to get working with various types of components. It’s driving me a bit batty, as I expected this to be the easy part of this release and I hate spending time on stuff that I think should be trivial. I’d rather get the new features out there quickly.

Anyway, I’m trying. Taxes and other stuff need done now too, so it’s not the only thing I can have on my mind.

HL7 Comm 0.8 is shaping up nicely. The all new configuration interface is working great for everything but individual component configurations (which, I have yet to start on). Obviously that’s huge, but it’s a relatively small fraction of the total work. Probably just a few hours left of development, then a few more of testing. Hopefully I’ll let it loose in the next few days. Already it’s clear that it’s worlds better than 0.7 in terms of configuring components. It’s different, though, so be ready for it. Keep telling yourself that change is good.

In other news, I beat my cold, finally, on the 37th day. Here’s to no relapses this time. In the midst of that fun and keeping the job on track, and the few renovations yet to do on the old house, our furnace managed to break last week.

Initially, a slightly frightening noise from the motor devolved into the motor not turning at all. I did call for backup, but it started to get cold pretty quickly, so I decided to pull the motor myself and see how hard it would be to replace. That’s an awfully tight spot (I do have pictures that I’ll upload for it shortly, had to reinstall OS X last weekend, that’s another story), so between that and getting the stuck impeller off of the old motor it took about 6 hours to fix. But, having finished it myself, I spend about $160 total instead of the several hundred dollars a service call would have run. It actually works better than it ever did with the new motor, so hopefully we’ll see a few untroubled years in the furnace department. Or at least long enough for me to release HL7 Comm 1.0.

I’ve completed my review of uCertify’s SCJP 5.0 PrepKit here. It is a product that I’d recommend for anybody going for their SCJP certification.

I’ve you’ve got something Java or health-care integration-related, let me know and I’ll give it a few hours of my time to write something up about it here. Hit my contact link up to to the right. (Yes, someday I’ll have a real contact link….)