Facing new challenges everyday

Last sunday I finished the development of my first iPhone application, I could do this by using Xcode and Interface Builder, the last beta of iPhone SDK comes with good integration between these two tools, but there are some components missing on Interface Builder, like UIDatePicker and UISlider, I can bypass it for now.
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Are you worried about how can you put some components like JOptionPane, JFileChooser or JColorChooser in your language? You can solve this issue easily! Just add this code at the start of your application:

“com.company.YourBundle” is the basename of your properties file, that can be:

YourBundle.properties
YourBundle_en_US.properties
YourBundle_pt_BR.properties

Where YourBundle*.properties may contains:

FileChooser.openDialogTitleText=Abrir
FileChooser.saveDialogTitleText=Salvar
FileChooser.lookInLabelText=Examinar:
FileChooser.saveInLabelText=Salvar em:

OptionPane.yesButtonText=Sim
OptionPane.noButtonText=N\u00E3o
OptionPane.cancelButtonText=Cancelar

ColorChooser.rgbNameText=RGB
ColorChooser.rgbRedText=Vermelho
ColorChooser.sampleText=Texto de Exemplo Texto de Exemplo
ColorChooser.swatchesNameText=Paleta de cores
ColorChooser.swatchesRecentText=Recente:

After few days reading Lucene and Solr mailing lists archives I discovered a large range of frameworks and tools related with information retrieval and natural language processing, at first moment we can find the most important search engines components at Lucene site as Lucene subprojects, but there are several other initiatives related with this topic.
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