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The guys over at Glazed Lists have put out the first PDF version of Glazed List Developer as a free download.

Glazed Lists Developer
In the spirit of the O'Reilly Hacks series, Glazed Lists Developer is about the cool things you can do with Glazed Lists. It's our Google Labs where we can explore and experiment with our own APIs and share our discoveries with you, the reader.

Issue 1: Sorting

* Comparators and Usability
* Inside TableComparatorChooser
* Customizing Sorted Header Icons
* Readable Renderers for Sorted Cells

Here is an excerpt from the article on renderers.

There are many types of data that are sorted differently than how they are written. Many programs do sorting after a value has been converted to a String. But alphabetical order isn’t always preferable. For example, some “sorted” months: December, February, November, September. Or “sorted” file sizes: Gigabytes, Kilobytes, Megabytes, Terabytes. Unfortunately the natural alternative isn’t any better: presenting values with inappropriate units. For example, my MP3 player holds 42949672960 bytes of music, which was the largest I could find when I got it 0.005 centuries ago. To solve this problem we must give the sorter data that’s fit for a sorter (ie. 42949672960 bytes) and the human data that’s fit for a human (like 40 GB). We need to sort using the native data format but display using a human-readable String...