I totally forgot how to redirect to another page using PHP. After trying to remember I had to look it up in the PHP documentation. So if you want to redirect to another page using PHP you write to the header using this bit of code: header(‘Location: index.html’); I opted to use PHP solution instead [...]
Why is it that IBM’s WebSphere 5.1.1 fixpack almost as large as the WebSphere 5.1 installation bundle itself? The WebSphere 5.1 installation bundle (base51wi.zip) is 285MB while the 5.1.1 fixpack (was51_fp1_win.zip) comes in at whopping 228MB. So by upgrading just one minor version I practically doubled WebSphere disk space footprint. I don’t think this is [...]
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JavaBeans are so simple that they might be hard for some people to grasp. I was asked by a college classmate to describe JavaBeans. What I saw in her face was that she did not understand the big fuss over JavaBeans. As much as I tried, she just didn’t get the context and the need [...]
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What I try to do in this Class HighLite series is to bring to focus a single class which I have found very useful but which I don’t use often enough. That almost sounds like a paradox but it is not and InetAddress will prove it. Please note that in when in doubt read the [...]
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I have been using Java 1.5, or as Sun calls it Java 5.0, with Eclipse 3.1.0. One of the kewl new features of Java 1.5 is generics (which C++ has had for over ten years). If you use generics with a list you don’t have to keep casting to an expected object. When you cast [...]
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This tip is for tech noobies. In some UNIX-flavored shells you can auto complete a directory path by hitting the esc key twice. And of course Microsoft Windows tailgates with its on version for its CMD command line prompt by, you guessed it, using another key, the tab key. At least Microsoft didn’t invent its [...]