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Category Archives: Java
Android vs iPhone: whats with all the hand-wringing?
The last week or so has been very interesting across the many technology blogs that I follow. Ever since the Google IO conference and the announcement of Android 2.2 the amount of hand-wringing going on over on the iPhone side … Continue reading
Cedric Beust is Bust
Cedric Beust posts something incredibly lame on his weblog about the iPhone. It gets picked up by John Gruber and posted at Daring Fireball. Cedric’s website is now bust. Not surprising given how ridiculous his post about the … Continue reading
Google AppEngine or Amazon EC2 for my web app?
Lately I’ve been investigating how to host a web application I’m building. Being a personal project I’ve also been debating what technologies I’d like to use to write it. I pay for a hosting account for this blog that includes … Continue reading
I can’t take the stupidity anymore – or Google open sources VP8
Honestly I can’t take it anymore. The Google announcement of the open sourcing of VP8 is the last straw and it’s led me to delete most of my technology RSS feeds. Why? Crap like this: Most likely … Continue reading
Complacency on “Corporate Standards”
I was in a meeting today where a discussion was happening about the benefits of using Hibernate in an enterprise Java application. I pointed out that with Hibernate the options are provided to call stored procedures, have Hibernate generate SQL … Continue reading
It’s the requirements stupid!
Today I had a new coworker tell me that I really couldn’t comment on his method of organizing source code because I hadn’t used it. It was guaranteed to produce the fantastic results he was talking about if only we’d … Continue reading
Posted in General, Java, Programming, Technology
Tagged Java, software development, software engineering
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Flash: what’s all the fuss over?
Update: Here is a fantastic example of someone who has completely gone off the rails with respect to Flash… Wow…nothing generates conversation in the tech industry like Adobe Flash. In just the past couple of days I’ve read articles about … Continue reading
Posted in Java, Programming, Technology, User Interface, iPhone
Tagged Flash, html 5, iPhone
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Ubuntu 9.04 on VMWare Fusion 2.0.4
Happy to say that with minimal fuss I was able to get the newest release of Ubuntu Desktop, 9.04, running on VMWare Fusion on my Mac. Five easy steps: Follow this blog post for the install (he also links to … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, General, Java, Linux, Mac, Programming, Technology
Tagged Mac, ubuntu, vmware fusion
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JasperReports underlining all text in HTML reports in Internet Explorer?
Last week I ran into an odd situation with our HTML output from JasperReports in Internet Explorer 7. All text, link or otherwise, was being underlined and I’m not really sure of the root cause other than it would appear … Continue reading
Posted in GTD, Garden Journal, General, Java, Programming, Sustainability, Technology
Tagged css, Firefox, internet explorer, jasperreports
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Chart caching issues with JasperReports web output? A solution!
Just a quick posting about an issue I was running in to that was solved pretty easily with a minimal amount of work. Providing it here as a tip for people new to JasperReports and using it to deliver HTML … Continue reading