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SiteMesh is a web layout framework for Java. It differs from from frameworks such as Tiles in that it utilizes the decorator pattern. For example, you create a number of pages and then you tell SiteMesh that you’d like to add the same header, footer, and menus to each of those pages. This tutorial will Read More
Let me start off by saying that openSUSE 11.0 is the best Linux distribution I have ever used. There are some rough edges surrounding KDE 4, but the package management in openSUSE 11.0 makes huge strides over that offered in previous versions. If you want to get up and running with openSUSE 11.0 then there Read More
If you’ve ever used Linux and gotten used to having a command prompt, then going back to the Windows command line is a difficult and frustrating change. Luckily, there’s an amazing program called PowerShell that can alleviate your stress. To open a command prompt in any directory in Windows Explorer, follow these steps to add Read More
Getting started on Linux can be challenging. Largely because the first time user won’t have any idea how to track down potential problems. The following Linux commands are essential to get additional information about your system when something goes wrong. Machine info sudo lshw -html > hardware.html – Creates an HTML page showing what hardware Read More
Wine attempts to create a Windows-compatible layer on top of Linux to allow you to run your favorite programs. Recently, Wine had its 1.0 release and has gotten quite strong when compared to earlier versions. Quicken works reasonably well with wine-1.1.6 and later. With wine-1.1.5 and earlier you’ll need to use a WINE override. That Read More
I often want to have a String description of my beans for debugging or logging purposes, but hate having to manually concatenate the fields in my class to create a toString() method. This code snippet using Apache Commons is very helpful for just such occasions. Thanks to Paul Wilton who suggested this updated code snippet in Read More
I’ve been playing around with Ruby on Rails lately. I’m using Instant Rails as a development server locally. However, I wanted to try to publish my first Rails app to the world. I have a shared hosting account at FastDomain.com, but was having a lot of trouble getting it to work. The only error message Read More
One of my first posts was a comparison of HTML parsers. Today I found a particularly challenging document to parse. None of the parsers I had compared earlier were able to handle the malformed HTML in this table where the td elements were prematurely ended. The behavior of Neko and HtmlCleaner made the most sense Read More
A client sent me some code today to update. He was using the NetBeans, so I downloaded the IDE and fired it up to open the project he’d sent me. Unfortunately, the project wouldn’t compile because he’d written the code in Java 6 while NetBeans was using Java 5. I couldn’t find a NetBeans menu Read More