ImageUploader as Java Web Start

In older blog posts I reported about my ImageResizer/Uploader appplication.
A while ago I turned it into a Java Swing application, startable via Java Web Start.

Short description
It's a tiny but very useful software to resize and upload a bunch of JPG-files to a Google Picasa Web Album. It´s perfectly suitable for travellers in countries with slow Internet connections. The idea behind this software is the following: A full-sized JPG files on a digital camera with (let´s say) 3 MB has only 300 KB if it is resized to 70% of its original size, but has (nearly) the same quality. So Internet-backups can be made 10-times as fast.

You can find it here:
https://sites.google.com/site/dbimageuploader/home

Please don't forget to read the "Background" section:
https://sites.google.com/site/dbimageuploader/background

Scala == Effective Java ?

Well, this is an interesting article.

The author states, that most of the items in the first chapter of Josh Bloch's famous Effective Java present recommendations that are "either unnecessary, because Scala doesn't permit the corollary bad practice, or built into the language of Scala, or made easier to implement than they are in Java".

The article closes with the following words:

"If 'Effective Java' is considered essential reading, and the best practices in it are the de facto standard for writing good programs, shouldn't we all be giving serious consideration to switching to a language that is so very close to Java, but makes good programming even easier?"

That motivates to get deeper into Scala. Thank you, Graham!