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Get your CTRL+ALT+Fx keyboard shortcuts back in Ubuntu 11.10

I’m now using Ubuntu on my work desktop (nice change). My favourite IDE, IntelliJ Idea has a very useful shortcut CTRL+ALT+F7 to Show Usages of anything under the cursor. Its one of the most simple yet powerful features of the … Continue reading

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Cookies in JSF

If you ever need a reminder… Gareth Thomas Hill: Cookies in JSF. (hint) they are in the http servlet request and response that you get from the Faces ExternalContext

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Android, Maven & Idea 10

An entry about how idea 10th has improved its Android support. There are still some issues but it is getting there. http://www.teleal.org/weblog/software/Building%20Android%20applications%20with%20Maven%20and%20IntelliJ.html

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Jvm web framework feature matrix

Nice to know. A spreadsheet simply rating characteristics of each framework. Grails Spring MVC Rails are the top players JSF was one of the more poorly ranked. Though they didn’t differentiate between v1 or 2. http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AtkkDCT2WDMXdC1HOEtnUHpCejJMbUhGeGJWUmh5dVE&hl=en&output=html

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Creating mobile web applications with jQuery mobile and Grails

Creating mobile web applications with jQuery mobile and Grails The blogger demonstrates how easy it is to integrate the new jquery mobile library with Grails and easily create mobile views in scaffolding. I wasn’t familiar with the grails install-templates command … Continue reading

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The interruptible programmer

A read a good blog post about learning to work interrupted.  Work 2.0 – the interruptible programmer.  The blogger had to learn to switch from a conventional, anti-interruption, get in ‘the mode’ then stay there for as many hours as possible, … Continue reading

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Google’s guava java: the easy parts

More Guava goodness dzone.com – Google’s guava java: the easy parts.

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PHP and GlassFish

The Aquarium: PHP and GlassFish – Links Update. Two free solutions PHP JavaBridge or LRWPInJava.

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Preventative Battery Maintenance

Over the last few days, I’ve been putting my aging battery in my ASUS M51SN (now some 2.5+ years old) through some torture of plugin / plugout for watching vids/podcasts that incidentally almost drain the battery whilst I clean the … Continue reading

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How to subscribe and export to a Google Calendar from Outlook 2007

This handy little page on the MS website, has steps to subscribe to a google calendar from within Outlook. Transfer calendars between Outlook and Google Calendar – Outlook – Microsoft Office Online I’m happy with this out of the box … Continue reading

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