Mark Stephens

  https://www.idrsolutions.com Mark has been working with Java and PDF since 1999 and is a big NetBeans fan. He enjoys speaking at conferences. He has an MA in Medieval History and a passion for reading.

   



187 Stories by Mark Stephens

3 reasons Java developers switch to JDeli from ImageIO

ImageIO is build into the JDK and provides basic image support in Java. JDeli is a commercial image library for Java Developers from IDRsolutions....
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Hacking the NetBeans IDE

At my recent Oracle CodeOne talk on Hacking the NetBeans IDE, I promised to publish the screenshots of my code with some comments. I...
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Why we wrote our own Java JPEG2000 libraries

What is JPEG2000? JPEG2000 is an important image file format which offers significant benefits over JPEG. For our specific usage it does generate significantly...
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How to choose JPG versus JPEG2000 for image files

Since we started to support both JPG and JPG2000 as image file outputs in our software, we have found that this is a very...
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Book Review: Future Politics (Living together in  a world transformed by Tech) by Jamie Susskind

The latest book by Jamie Susskind is a must-read for anyone who wanders (or worries) how technology might change and impact society. Richard Susskind...
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