For some time now I have searched for a way to print a PDF document from Java code. Up to now, I have had to shell out and invoke Acrobat from the command line but this hack has been painful to support in the field because of the multiple version of Acrobat and its quirks. [...]
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A few months back I took a look at TIBCO General Interface, an AJAX/Web Development framework with an IDE/Builder than runs on your browser. The one thing that amazed me about General Interface was that it saved files to your local disk drive from the browser. Earlier today I was experimenting with TiddlyWiki, a wiki [...]
The Apple Switch Ad campaign was very successful for Apple, so much so that there seems to be a sort of switch meme campaign amongst Grails folks to try to get Ruby on Rails developers to switch to Grails. Originally this blog post presented 10 reasons to switch from Rails to Grails and now Graeme [...]
As you may gather from the title, this book explains in detail many of the extreme and agile programming best practices. I think a more suitable name would be Common Practices of a Software Developer as I felt that some of the practices where just common sense advice for a experience developer. I mean, do [...]
Rails has been getting a lot of flack lately, instead of the usual hype. Zed Shaw, author of Mongrel, recently blew his top off against the Ruby on Rails community leaders and said that Rails is a ghetto. Zed is getting a lot of attention from this explosive rant but this is not the first [...]
Recently I had to do some light Perforce administrative management tasks, such as creating new users and setting up their privileges. If you like to create a new user just invoke the following Perforce command from the command line. p4 user -f username If you try to connect to Perforce with the new user you [...]