DynDNS blocks updates – from updated older than 2.4
If your home router has a Dynamic DNS feature and it suddenly does not work anymore with DynDNS… don’t despair. The guys at DynDNS have decided to discontinue service to older clients.
MySql, PHP and UTF8
Nowadays UTF8 is far from being just “trendy”, it’s the de facto standard for information representation. There are a lot of discussions on the “why locales are bad” theme, and I’m not going to argue with that.
Spreadsheet dojo widget
Update3: We’re back to our own hosting. Update2: Razvan Dragomirescu was kind enough to mirror the spreadsheet widget. Click here to access the demo. Thanks, Razvan! Update: Due to high traffic the demo page might load very slowly. Please have patience. In the last weeks, I’ve been using my so very little spare time to create a spreadsheet widget based on dojo.Click here for a…
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End to end UTF-8 encoding usage with MySql and Spring – Part 2
One thing I forgot to mention was the usage of Spring message bundles. Usually, a ResourceBundleMessageSource is configured to inject bundle messages for Spring MVC. The only bad thing is that I could not specify an encoding for the configured message.properties files. As the default properties format is ISO 8859-1 character encoding and tedious operations like the transformation of Unicode…
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End to end UTF-8 encoding usage with MySql and Spring
Setting up a solution to store, manage and display UTF-8 data using MySql was quite a challenge. There are a few steps that you have to get right, otherwise, garbage data will come out at various stages in your application. Inserting the data First, make sure your data is UTF-8. You can easily check this with a text editor or…
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New uses of the OSGi plug-in model
In the OSGi plugin model, there is no global classpath. A plugin has its own classpath or can inherit partially or totally the classpaths of other plugins.
Intellij Idea versus Eclipse – part II
>> 10 reasons why Eclipse is better Most of the following are not checked in Idea 6.0 which is anyways in beta. They refer to 4.x and 5.x Idea versions. 1. The visual editor – one feature that Idea sucks at is the visual editor. While the best in this category is still Netbeans IMO, Eclipse’s Visual Editor, although buggy…
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DBUnit loses data
If not used properly Dbunit can lose data. I’m using dbunit version 2.1 which has the following bug: when importing a file if the first row in the dataset file has missing columns, no further data from subsequent rows will be imported. The solution when using the dbunit ant task will be to first perform an export operation to an…
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Intellij Idea versus Eclipse – part I
>> 10 reasons why Idea is better In this part, I’m focusing on the advantages of Idea over Eclipse. I plan for a 2nd part to check out the other side – advantages when using Eclipse over Idea. This is not a major feature comparison, but more of a mix of small experiences intended to ease your life as a…
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