Monthly Archives: October 2007

Run PHP Web Applications on the Java Platform

By TechKnow | October 11, 2007

There has been a lot of commotion and even a book with having Ruby on Rails run on the Java VM. But looking past the JRuby hype it is clear that PHP has a several orders of magnitude more open source code, projects, and corporate backing than Ruby on Rails. The folks behind the Resin [...]

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Mac OS X Screen Grab

By TechKnow | October 11, 2007

I recently mentioned how to grab a screen shot of an application window on Windows XP. On Mac OS X you can also capture a screen shot of a window but its definitely is not as simple as Windows since it does not come with a Print Screen key. Mac OS X comes with a [...]

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Migrating to Java 6

By TechKnow | October 1, 2007

I work with a large code base consisting of over 4,000 classes, with a custom ORM persistence layer, layout managers, Rapid Application Development (RAD) User Interface (UI) builder. The code is written in Java 1.4.2 but we have been considering a move to Java 5 or even up to Java 6. We currently have been [...]

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