Monthly Archives: June 2006

Whats a Spring?

Posted on June 21, 2006 by Kon

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/10/05/what-is-spring.html Found the first couple of chapters of the ‘Spring: A Developers Notebook’ on ONJava.com today. Finally the mysteries are opening.

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Windows Media Player 11

Posted on June 21, 2006 by Kon

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/default.aspx WMP 11 is available in beta form. Guess what. Its faster than WMP 10. The interface is a much slicker looking black. The buttons, Now Playing, Rip, Sync, etc all have drop down menus to the most commonly needed … Continue reading →

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The Perl CD Bookshelf, Version 2.0

Posted on June 20, 2006 by Kon

https://www.linuxnotes.net/perlcd/index.htm Don’t you love free online books. Contains: Perl in a Nutshell, by Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour & Nathan Patwardhan Programming Perl, 3rd Edition, by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen & Jon Orwant Advanced Perl Programming, by Sriram Srinivasan Perl Cookbook, … Continue reading →

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Object-relation mapping without the container

Posted on June 20, 2006 by Kon

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-hibern/?ca=drs- Right now, anything that detours EJB 2 in favour of another persistance mechanism is my friend. (ie EJB3 , hibernate). The linked IBM developerworks article focuses on Hibernate and this thing I didn’t know existed until a few days … Continue reading →

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J2EE for you at home

Posted on June 20, 2006 by Kon

A plethora of links (mainly tutorials) to get you through the path of J2EE learning. Personally I’d like to shoot EJB’s out of a cannon due to the troubles they have given, however with a little time and patience, (or the willingness to look at other persistance … Continue reading →

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Firefox, Star Downloader and Zip/Exe’s no longer downloading

Posted on June 20, 2006 by Kon

After briefly trying Star Downloader and later uninstalling it, I found that Firefox would not download any exe or zip files. Instead, I would be greeted with a blank tab with the exe URL in the title bar. Everything else … Continue reading →

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Jude smells better than a Rose

Posted on June 20, 2006 by Kon

http://jude.change-vision.com/jude-web/product/community.html The guys at work started using a modelling tool known as Jude to help with their design of various projects and enhancements. Jude comes in a community (free) and professional version and the free version allows you to create … Continue reading →

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A goody in SDK clothing

Posted on June 20, 2006 by Kon

http://jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/index.html JDiskReport is a system filespace analyser, that is part of a demo of the jgoodies.com system. For functionality and ease of use it scores highly with a strong comparison to SpaceMonger without the treemaps. I like its multiplatformness, abiltity … Continue reading →

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Freemind taking off (sort of)

Posted on June 19, 2006 by Kon

http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=freemind Another trip on sourceforge revealed that Freemind has a couple of wiki’s that support its format along with some tools to extend its functionality. My favourites from the above search are: LiveMind: AJAX MindMap editor – “this is an … Continue reading →

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Topographica and the NIMH Human Brain Project

Posted on June 19, 2006 by Kon

Topographica and the NIMH Human Brain Project Something interesting on the sourceforge homepage today. I found an application known as Topographica which is used to help researchers identify the functions of the brain related to sensory and motor functions. From … Continue reading →

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