Just a friendly reminder. Developers are constantly reformatting their hard drives or upgrading to new bigger giga drives. If you are like me, you have a ton of tunes. If you are like me, you might forget to deauthorize you iTunes music from your computer before you reformat your drive. If you don’t deauthorize your [...]
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Perhaps one of my favorite Java 1.5 features is the static imports. The way I have explained static import is that it makes available other class members and method as if they were defined locally. If that didn’t make much sense, let me demonstrate it with an example. The java.lang.Math class provides a ton of [...]
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Yet another effects JavaScript library has been unleashed and this time it is named jQuery. Some code is based if not entirely inspired by moo.fx which in turn is base on prototype which in turn is base on work based on other work etc. JQuery is a light framework that you can get started with [...]
Java 1.5, sometimes referred to as Java 5 or as I like to call it Java five-oooh, has been out for a while now and yet I recently got an email from a old college mate who emailed me immediately after he saw the new printf method in action in some sample code. So for [...]
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Why isn’t there are good and simple command line doc2pdf application? I just can’t find any good command line programs that can faithfully produce a PDF document given a Word document. There are a lot of commercial and some open source applications that can create a PDF document but I can’t find a simple command [...]
Sometimes when working on web applications you need to encode GET parameter values that are part of a URL. Recently while working on a custom URL handler in Java I ran into a situation where I thought I had to encode part of the URL. I didn’t have to go that route, to encode/decode the [...]
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