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Technology introduction – Will grandma use it?

Posted on October 8, 2011 by admin

I was on a cruise this past week when I learned that Steve Jobs had died. I watched a short news story that tried to discuss why he was such an important figure in technology but I think they completely … Continue reading →

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Loading CSS from a JAR file evaluating EL

Posted on June 22, 2011 by admin

Yesterday I briefly explained how I was loading CSS files from a JAR and forcing their content through Velocity to evaluate expressions.  A co-worker offered up a more simple solution, it’s after the break.

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Loading CSS from a JAR file

Posted on June 21, 2011 by admin

Recently a co-worker created a jar with common utilities in it including some JSP tags. The tag was easy enough to deal with but how do you load CSS/JS from a jar file? His solution was pretty simple; create a … Continue reading →

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Spring MVC AJAX web services Part 2, attack of the JSON post

Posted on April 8, 2011 by admin

Previously I covered how to create simple AJAX web services using Spring MVC and annotated controllers. This made it very easy to create robust services that automatically convert your java beans into JSON for easy consumption by your AJAX client. … Continue reading →

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Cygwin Gotchas

Posted on March 28, 2011 by admin

I’m going to use this post to detail issues I run into when using cygwin on windows so I’ll be able to easily find them when I have that “Oh, I’ve run into this before” moment. Environment Variables: Cygwin only … Continue reading →

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Spring MVC AJAX web services

Posted on March 16, 2011 by admin

With SpringMVC, writing REST type web services is brain-dead simple. The Jackson mapper is a very powerful library that automatically converts your POJOs to and from JSON without any interaction from you. Think it’s too good to be true?  It’s … Continue reading →

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Java ORM using mongoDB part 2

Posted on March 16, 2011 by admin

Previously I briefly introduced the mjorm mongo-java-ORM solution I found. This post will go more in-depth and give more specific examples of querying, creating, and removing records from your mongoDB instance. If you don’t already have mongoDB, you’ll need it … Continue reading →

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IE inconsistencies

Posted on March 16, 2011 by admin

I’ll keep a running list of new items I find that are inconsistent between Internet Explorer and other browsers. I’ll skip most of the stuff that’s already public knowledge. Internet Explorer doesn’t treat z-index for absolutely positioned objects the same … Continue reading →

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595 Shift Register Simulator

Posted on March 15, 2011 by admin

Sometimes when creating a controller using a microcontroller, you run out of output pins; usually when driving displays. A 595 serial-in parallel-out shift register allows you to control up to 8 lines of data using four microcontroller pins. You can … Continue reading →

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Java ORM using MongoDB

Posted on March 14, 2011 by admin

My previous blog post covered a little about MongoDB. It’s really simple to use on the command line and thanks to an open-source developer, it’s really simple to use in a java application.

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