http://www.eelkespaak.nl A simple website and weblog about things that keep me busy Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:31:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Update: the version available from this page is now v2.1, and includes debugging info messages (can be turned on in Settings). By popular request, I have made a new version of my Windows Sidebar Gadget for Google Calendar. The following (requested) features are included in this new version: Multiple calendar support! Option for ... http://www.eelkespaak.nl/2008/11/the-calendar-v20-released/ N.B.: version 2.0 of this gadget is now available! I had spent some time searching for a good Windows Vista sidebar gadget that displayed a few upcoming Google Calendar events, when I noticed somewhere that, in fact, sidebar gadgets are actually just HTML/CSS/JavaScript snippets. Because I could not find any really ... http://www.eelkespaak.nl/2008/08/windows-vista-sidebar-gadget-for-google-calendar/ Some time ago already, I submitted an 8-page paper describing the research I conducted for my B.Sc. thesis to the Belgium-Netherlands Artificial Intelligence Conference 2008. You can download the submitted paper in PDF-format from my website. Now let's hope it gets accepted! http://www.eelkespaak.nl/2008/07/paper-submitted-to-bnaic-2008/ While programming simple Java swing applications, I often found myself writing a combination of a JTextField and a JButton ("Browse...") when prompting the user to select a file. The JButton would then bring up a JFileChooser and the path to the selected file would show up in the text field. ... http://www.eelkespaak.nl/2008/05/jfilefield-swing-component/ In March, I finished writing the thesis required for my degree of Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence. Woohoo! It is titled 'From Imitation to Action Understanding: On the Evolution of Mirror Neurons' and its abstract reads as follows: The mirror neuron system (MNS) has been described as the neural basis ... http://www.eelkespaak.nl/2008/05/bsc-thesis-finished/ My new website is online! It is mainly intended as a place where I can publish things I believe someone might find useful, such as Java code, or that I simply want to share with the world, such as papers I have written in the course of my university education. I ... http://www.eelkespaak.nl/2008/01/website-online/