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SharePoint admin at current position. Apart from PowerApps, PowerAutomate, and those beasts, I don't find SharePoint too bad to deal with. It's one of those tools that if you use frequently you can navigate through it without too much fuss, but if you're not using it often you will find yourself spending a ridiculous amount of time hunting a specific setting or option that's less-than-obvious to find.

Meat is a combination of finely chopped with few chunks, more shredded really than anything. When I get home I'll see if I can find that recipe. I certainly don't mind sharing. :)

My great-grandmother's folks used to make this. The "family recipe" dates back over a hundred years. Back in those days they would use the meat from the head, snout, feet of the hogs. The "store-bought" Brunswick stew that we find nowadays is so full of sugar and artificial sweetness, and doesn't really do the old recipe justice. Our family's recipe would cater more to the folks that enjoy a vinegar/mustard based stew.

Only problem is, the original recipe makes something like five gallons of stew, maybe suited more for family reunions or large gatherings. Efforts to size down the recipe doesn't seem to yield the same flavor. Definitely a staple of my childhood and to think that the recipe has been passed down for multiple generations is just amazing!

EDIT: Grew up about 40 miles from Brunswick, Georgia USA. I'm assuming this is where the name originates from.

Recently moved over all of my Raspberry Pi boxes to DietPi and I have been absolutely loving it so far! Much more performant than other OSes that I've tried out of the box.

Surprisingly, if you keep the feature set down, time to ship wasn't bad. The project was done in about half a semester and that's only working on it here and there. For the final project we had to implement three "advanced" drawing tools, I think one of the ones I came up with was to draw Bezier curves, now that wasn't exactly trivial and could definitely add some time to ship.

JavaFX 19 4 years ago

We've been using JavaFX for some internal tools, and the user base is generally fairly pleased. There are even libraries out there that handle automatic updates and the like. I would definitely continue to use JavaFX for trivial desktop applications that do one job and need to do it well.

JavaFX 19 4 years ago

Setting up the JavaFX development environment for anything post-JDK8 was incredibly difficult. I was recently tasked with creating an internal GUI application and re-visited JavaFX development after a few years' absence from the space.

I have to say, IntelliJ has come a long way. I was able to create a new JavaFX project from template and the magic green "Run" button worked out of the box. If you've previously been off-put by the difficulty in getting up and running with JavaFX, it's worth it to take another look since some of the improvements by IntelliJ. It feels a lot like the JDK8 days.