Monthly Archives: July 2010

UUID’s in Java

UUID’s are useful for making unique reference numbers of things.  In an ideal world these UUIDs are so long, they never collide. The first place to discuss UUIDs would be RFC 4122.  The next part would be the wikipedia entry … Continue reading

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CamelCaseString to Space Separated String

groovy> print ‘CamelCaseString’.replaceAll(/([A-Z][a-z]*)/, ‘$1 ‘).trim()Camel Case String There is probably a better regex approach that does not a space to the final word, and thus remove the need for a trim, but this is quick and easily embeddable anywhere, for … Continue reading

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Lessons in Jasper (i)Reports

I had some great fun today playing around with iReport. I used Dynamic Jasper before iReport so it was an interesting experience seeing the platform first hand and seeing all the capabilities it offered via the properties panels in iReport … Continue reading

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Time for a spruce-up

WordPress 3 has arrived and it coincided with a need to move my web host platform to one with an up to date php/mysql installation that could support WP 2.1+ The move to the new host was relatively straight forward … Continue reading

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Design Patterns Uncovered

Yet another concise reference: dzone.com – Design Patterns Uncovered: Series Overview

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Apache Commons reflectionHashCode builders

This was my response to this short post about using reflectionHashCode to implement your objects hashCode method dzone.com – overriding equals() and hashcode() – best practice I’ve come to love the Apache commons builders over the last couple of years … Continue reading

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