Java

Entries filed under Java relate to the Java language and programming.

Blackberry development
Posted : Saturday March 6th, 2010

So... I started playing with doing some blackberry development. I'm not entirely sure what I will do with it but it's sort of cool in a way. But I am finding some painfu...read more

Right way, wrong way
Posted : Thursday February 11th, 2010

I think when I am finished working on my current project I could write a whole book on tips and tricks for internationalization of websites. But here's the most importan...read more

MySQL, JDBC, Unicode and You
Posted : Sunday November 29th, 2009

A few notes on my experiences with using MySQL from JDBC with unicode support that might help others. Yes, MySQL and the JDBC driver fully support UTF-8 and really it's ...read more

Status update
Posted : Sunday August 30th, 2009

I feel bad for not blogging for awhile but I've been pretty busy as of late. I have just started working, a full-time gig, on a pretty complex J2EE project. It's pretty exciting...read more

Updating JDoctopdf
Posted : Saturday August 8th, 2009

I am working on cleaning up a few projects this weekend, including JDoctopdf. There are two items that need attention...read more

JDoctopdf
Posted : Monday June 15th, 2009

Hooray! I have launched my Jdoctopdf project which you can find here. This is a free, open-source, l...read more

Ahhhhhhh
Posted : Thursday June 11th, 2009

So a few weeks ago, someone, I don't know who but I have some ideas, nominated me as a featured contributor on the SDN Java forums. So I answered some questions about myself, re...read more

Signs of Bad Code : Threading
Posted : Saturday June 6th, 2009

I often find myself explaining why some particular code or database design etc has been done badly. This is mainly because much of my work is referral based so projects I get ca...read more

Recovering from OpenOffice
Posted : Tuesday June 2nd, 2009

Following up from a previous post I actually discovered that the OpenOffice installation had done even more damage th...read more

The other day...
Posted : Thursday May 28th, 2009

I installed OpenOffice. I didn't want to use it really but wanted to see about using some of it's libraries for something else. That turned out to be useless. Today I di...read more

Proper exception handling can't wait
Posted : Monday May 25th, 2009

The most overall common mistake I see in Java code posted in forums and discussion groups is bad exception handling. By bad exception handling I mean seeing the following. ...read more

Extracting DOCX content with Java
Posted : Tuesday May 19th, 2009

I'm trying to read DOCX (Word 2007 file format) files in Java. My goal is just to be able to index the content so I only need to be able to extract the content, without formatti...read more

JDBC Best Practices
Posted : Friday May 15th, 2009

I have had a few posts before relating to some JDBC best practices but I thought I'd list the top five all in one post. These are good ideas for making your JDBC code safe, secu...read more

MySQL and DBCP for Tomcat 5
Posted : Saturday May 9th, 2009

I find that between each version of Tomcat working totally differently and the fact that the documentation is wildly inconsistent and often misleading setting up a connection po...read more

Why fulfilling demand is sometimes a mistake
Posted : Thursday February 12th, 2009

When it comes to anything really but particularly software development, sometimes people feel that every whim should be catered to, every need filled and every request served. B...read more

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