If you do any web development either with PHP, JSP, and/or Ruby on Rails you most likely will use MySQL. The following is all that you need to know to get started with MySQL. I am currently using MySQL 4.1.14. To install MySQL just unzipped it to the c:\ drive. To start the MySQL server [...]
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Yet another reason to love Eclipse is its Local History feature. Yeah, you might have a version control system but what happens if your recent changes are accidentally wiped out before you commit them to CVS, Perforce, or whatever else you use? If you are using Eclipse, you compare your current source file against locally [...]
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Ruby on Rails (RoR) Rocks! It is off the chain, off the hook, and off the tracks!! Like Struts, RoR is a Model 2 framework used to build web applications. With RoR you define actions in controller classes and delegate the presentation to rthml files. RoR favors convention over configuration, which means no XML configuration [...]
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I took Scheme programming in college. Scheme is a dialect of Lisp. In my object-oriented mind, Scheme is weird although you will hear that is very powerful. Here is a snippet of code I found online that I wanted to share that shows how ‘weird’ Scheme, and Lisp for that matter, is: (this (is what) [...]
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Microsoft XP Professional comes with a few handy Visual Basic script files. In your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 directory you will find PRNJOBS.VBS and PRNMNGR.VBS amongst other script files. As you can gather from the name of these files, they related to printer functionality. Cay Horstmann, my former Computer Science instructor, strongly encouraged his students to always explore [...]
I recently had to work with the Jakarta BeanUtils project and found it really useful. I think of it as BeanUseful. The BeanUtils project allows you to easily manipulate a JavaBean object using the static methods from the PropertyUtils class. Here is a simple example of how to update a property value of a JavaBean. [...]
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