September 04, 2010
Scala, JSF 2, and NetBeans. I am working on a web site that will help students practice their Scala programming skills. As I labored along, writing my JSF app code, I thought “this is silly—why not practice Scala at the same time?” But I like JSF and wasn'...
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September 03, 2010
Dropping Boxes with JavaFX. Dropping Boxes with JavaFX
If you want to work for DropBox, they have an interesting programming test which solution must be submitted together with the CV. I’m not considering a position at DropBox, but their test was too fun to ignore: an int...
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November 2006
November 30, 2006
What's all the fuss about open sores?
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November 30, 2006
Click on image for full size. Some things to notice: semantic highlighting (for example, parameters are shown in different colors than local variables), code completion, mark occurrences (other uses of the length method under the caret is highlighted),...
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November 30, 2006
My co-conspirators on Project Semplice, John Kline and
Herbert Czymontek, have both recently left Sun. Rest assured, I'm not going anywhere. But where does that leave Project Semplice?
Well, the spirit of the project was to support ...
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November 29, 2006
Whats the best way to introduce Ajax into your legacy application? This article series guides you through Ajax implementations, starting with writing the necessary code by hand, then using an open-source toolkit, and finally implementing JavaServer Fac...
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November 20, 2006
The following topics are covered in this issue: Sys Admins: Take a Survey, and Get a Cool T-Shirt!, New Information Hubs on BigAdmin, New Device Detection Tool for the Solaris OS, What Time Is It? Are You Sure?, SAMP (Solaris, Apache 2, MySQL 5, and ...
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November 20, 2006
Here is an easy way to turn all of javac's warnings on for your NetBeans project, and make its build fail if any warnings are found.
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November 20, 2006
When you need to generate a report, a chart, or a PDF file from a web application, you have many third-party products to help you accomplish your task, including the open source JasperReports framework. JasperReports is a reporting tool that outputs re...
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November 18, 2006
Welcome to the Core Java Technologies Tech Tips for November 2006. Core Java Technologies Tech Tips provide tips and hints for using core Java technologies and APIs provided in the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE). This issue covers Java We...
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November 17, 2006
Michael Powers explores the mobile game space. Where are the games? What are the design constraints? What does it takes to be successful? Read Part 1 and be ready for the next installment in the series.
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November 13, 2006
Hallelujah! Java SE is now an open-source project, with the HotSpot VM and javac as its first sub-projects. This is great news for anyone interested in Java performance, as the world now has full-access to both the static (javac) and...
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