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3 cool technologies I discovered over summer.

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Kon

Today I finish up my ‘holidays’ but I did want to write a quick post about the cool stuff I’d been looking at. Firstly, the LMAX Disruptor pattern. I didn’t think you could fall for a pattern until I came … Continue reading →

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Access restriction: The constructor NotSupposedToUseThisClass() is not accessible due to restriction on required library

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Kon

So following from my previous post about compiling Java 5 with a Java 6 compiler and the real reason that I am posting today, was to talk about a curly error message I got in Eclipse today. I had the same … Continue reading →

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Like rt.jar for like javac

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Kon

Today I switched an Eclipse project using JDK 6 on OS X to JDK 5. Even though there are command line tags in javac to produce 1.5 compatible source, the need to use JDK 5 comes into being when implementing … Continue reading →

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Building Jetty-Ant for Jetty 7

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Kon

Jetty-ant for Jetty 7 is a hard find. The documentation is all wrong, but that if you look at the Jetty Developer page they do concede that. The split between eclipse and codehaus doesnt help either. There are a lot of … Continue reading →

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MacBook Pro vs Soniq TV vs HDMI adaptor

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Kon

Most things on the Mac are purportedly easy since many of the un-ncessary options are removed.  This is great until you want to non-conform (read, use some hardware that is old, cheap, or just un-ordinary). Trying to get HDMI with … Continue reading →

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Import/Export/Move SMS Messages from Windows Mobile to Android – Android Stuff

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Kon

Import/Export/Move SMS Messages from Windows Mobile to Android – Android Stuff.

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[Presentation] Tomorrow’s Tech Today: HTML5

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Kon

Groovy / Grails ‘personality’  (and I mean that in the most fondest use of the term) Scott Davis presents a great round up of some cool HTML features. InfoQ: Tomorrow’s Tech Today: HTML5. He introduces some good tools and utils that … Continue reading →

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mod_pagespeed

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Kon

There is a new mod from Google for Apache servers called mod_pagespeed that removes redundant HTML before sending it to the client.  Very neat idea.  Makes me shed a tear I am wanting to move our legacy php into a … Continue reading →

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Rick Wagner’s Blog: How to find which .jar a class is in (easily)

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Kon

Holy heck, I needed this earlier today Rick Wagner’s Blog: How to find which .jar a class is in (easily). Makes mention of JBoss’ tattletale utility. The comments also mention the Java Class Finder plugin for Eclipse (I used the … Continue reading →

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Glassfish V3.0.1 and Update Tool

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Kon

When installing plugins for glassfish at work I would receive a Premature EOF just after accepting the license terms for the plugin. This would occur regardless of method used, updatetool cli, gui or web. Strangely it worked at home, but … Continue reading →

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