Monthly Archives: March 2009

Because I don’t use a social bookmarking service…

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Kon

Nothing against them, but my blog is the most useful thing at present to record interesting sites that I may or may not read later. To have hope that Scala can work in the enterprise: The Book Of JOSH – but … Continue reading →

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How to find Memory Leaks In Java

Posted on March 28, 2009 by Kon

Enough Said, this is a good article and will come in handy soon I’m sure.

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Want AJAX, why not try GWT?

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Kon

GWT or Google Web Toolkit, is a platform that lets Java developers write Java apps and have them compiled in native javascript to run in the browser.  There are a lot of neat optimisations and support for RPC.  Although I’ve … Continue reading →

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Blank PDF tabs in Firefox

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Kon

If you ever have issues with PDF’s not displaying correctly in your browser then this Adobe support link appears quite helpful. I installed Foxit Reader then uninstalled it on my Windows 7 box and now my Firefox wont open PDF’s.  … Continue reading →

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A look to the past to see where you are going

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Kon

I read a great article just now by Bruce Eckel ‘The Positive Legacy of C++ and Java’.  Bruce talks about Java as a language gettings stuck (complicated Generics, etc) but paving the way via the efficient JVM to develop and … Continue reading →

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Easy Peasy ISO burning – Win 7

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Kon

From Lifehacker: How to Burn ISOs in Windows 7 Supposedly, if I couldn’t get the damn thing to work It keeps saying my disks aren’t blank! Edit: After a reboot, aok.

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Easily Unhide an NTFS partition with included Windows Tools

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Kon

Make sure you the hidden partition is NTFS!!!!  No responsibility taken if you follow these instructions and you fubar your disk.  If in doubt, use a graphical tool like Partition Magic to help you out. Open a cmd window Type … Continue reading →

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Its all Greek to me

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Kon

Ok, so I’m learning Greek right now.  When venturing onto a colleagues PC, I noticed he was running Firefox in French.  So I thought what a great opportunity to expose myself to the Greek language by running my apps in … Continue reading →

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Groovy 1.6

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Kon

You could read thru the Jira release notes for 1.6 and 1.6rc1-3 or you could just read this infoq article which provides a summary of all the good stuff in the new Groovy release. I dont think the Groovy home … Continue reading →

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