Visual Studio and log4net
One of the projects here at Sapiens, required me to add logging to AddOn for Word. I Google'd the subject and found a good logging framework, log4net. It is very similar to log4j if one is working with...
View ArticleSpring and Hibernate
Creating configuration for Spring to use Hibernate is not difficult. Basic configuration can look like this, providing that you put in your variables. Just remember that you want annotation based...
View ArticleWorking with graphs: yEd
If you ever worked with Visio or needed to create some graphs, you will appreciate any tool that can simplify the process and as a plus, be freeware. One of such tools that I tried is yEd graph editor....
View ArticleMyEclipse and JUtils
This morning I needed to generate toString() for the few bean classes, but I could not find JUtils in MyEclipse 9 menus. I checked in the Common/plugins directory and found that it is already there but...
View ArticleJSF, ICEfaces and resetting component values
I just spent some time trying to figure out how to reset the value of the HtmlSelectOneMenu when cancel button is clicked using ICEfaces. The solution is to add actionListener to your ice:commandButton...
View ArticleSyntaxHighlighter and blogger
If your blog uses SyntaxHighlighter from alexgorbatchev.com then setting it to display items correctly might require a small addition in styles. I needed this to make it look correct (additional style...
View ArticleRuby log analyzer: rula
This would be my first Ruby application. Name of the application is rula, meaning RUby Log Analyzer. I started this project as I needed to do several searches on log files that would include previous...
View ArticleRepresenting Java classes in diagrams
You probably wanted to display relationships from the Java classes in diagram if you needed to understand how the projects and files are related to each other. Now, Eclipse can show you Call and Type...
View ArticleSpring and JiBX
When I first heard about JiBX I could not have know that this would be one of the greatest tools for processing XML files that I would use. It all started when we had a project where a speed and...
View ArticleMoving from Ant to Maven
I have to admit that I have not used Maven a lot until perhaps mid last year, when I realised how difficult it is becoming to maintain dependencies and builds for J2EE projects using Ant. Many of my...
View ArticleWorking with .NET
I have been working with Java most of my professional life, and I have to say that not always has it been easy. In fact, most of the times it was rather difficult to build up knowledge, find ans use...
View ArticleShihan Fred Haynes 7th Dan - Aikido Georgetown
On May 7th, we had a fantastic seminar held by Fred Haynes from Victoria, BC. Seminar was held in Georgetown Aikido club. It was my first visit there but, I have to say that the club and people...
View ArticleWorking with jBPM 5
Hi, I just wanted to say a few words about jBPM. jBPM is a great product that comes from JBoss and used with several other technologies we can use it to make effective and easy to undertand workflow....
View ArticleHunting in Canada
A few weeks ago I passed my Ontario Hunter Education course. I decided to take the course as I felt that I needed to connect more with nature through hunting as something that was common for people to...
View ArticleWhy use jBPM and Drools
Hi, I just wanted to give some intro to the people that are considering using jBPM but still need some picture as where this would fit in their system. 1. What is BPM? Taken from Wiki: Business...
View ArticleJSF2 Byte Boolean Checkbox
Hi, A few days ago I needed to convert old Icefaces 1.8.2 (JSF1.2) project to Icefaces 3.1 (JSF2) and found a problem when converting Byte to Boolean for the checkboxes. Byte value was generated by...
View ArticleDisplaying jBPM diagram of the current process
In large enough processes, user might need to see where in the diagram process stopped. Now jBPM console comes with this, but to actually integrate it with front end application, I had to change it...
View ArticleTOAD for SQL Server - hide empty tables
If you are using SQL server and TOAD and have a lot of empty tables that you do not want to show, you can use Object Explorer filter to add this code to prevent them from being shown: ISNULL((SELECT...
View ArticleAccessing Maven Profiles
I have just spent some time trying to figure out how to determine which profiles are active during the build using Maven. This functionality would be useful if you needed to put your profile...
View ArticleCreating video tutorials in Windows
If you ever needed to introduce your application(s)/technology to new developers or just create an end user tutorials, here are a few tips that helped me when creating instructional videos. I used...
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