Dynamically create Spring beans from groovy scripts at runtime
In the current project – a java based CMS – we were faced with an interesting problem: how can we dynamically create renderers to power our blocks in the html page .
Getting updated Bluetooth discovery names from nearby devices
When using < hcitool scan > command, the output is not updated on every run, and even when used with the –flush option, the obtained results did not reflect the reality because the data is cached.
Codepress extension – syntax highlighting for Velocity
Codepress is an excellent script for syntax highlighting when editing code using the browser. We needed some syntax highlighting for one of the projects at Tremend which included some Velocity code.
Where in the /dev is the card reader?
I’ve plugged a card reader in a USB socket on my Linux box and it’s not that trivial to know if it’s on /dev/sda or /dev/sdb or elsewhere. That can be even dangerous – I know someone who just erased his hard drive, trying to reformat a card.
Escaping in Bash: how to handle multiple file names containing spaces
Did you ever saved file names in a bash parameter, and everything crashed down when they contain spaces?
Create directories in C using mkdir with proper permissions
When you create a new file or directory, some of its permissions are restricted and cannot be set. Each process has a set of restrictions called the umask, and you must use the umask system call to disable or enable those restrictions.
Link flash to HTML page
This is a small one, but I banged my head several times now before fixing it. Although many have written about it, I decided to write also. More resources are always better than fewer resources. So you’ve created the flash object, and correctly set the URL, but when embedding it on the web page on your web server, the link…
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Google Talk in Yahoo Messenger
Some time ago, when I first saw the Google Talk gadget is being released, I got this crazy idea of embedding the gadget in Yahoo Messenger as a plugin.
AHrefs vs OnClick – Performance tests on different browsers
While optimizing some HTML code, I recently came across the question: when rendering anchors, which of the href and onclick are rendered quicker by the browsers.