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In my last post, I mentioned that I installed GIMP to read a Photoshop .psd file. If you’re not familiar with GIMP, it is an extremely high quality free alternative to Photoshop. Using GIMP, I have been able to create several graphical effects with little effort. In this post, I will show you how I Read More
A client sent me a Photoshop .psd file today containing a mock-up of a site he’s interested in having me design. Unfortunately, at the time I received the email, I was on a computer which did not have Photoshop installed, so I had no way to read or view the file. I downloaded GIMP (GNU Read More
I had to do some HTML parsing today, but unfortunately most HTML on the web is not well-formed like any markup I’d create. Missing end tags and other broken syntax throws a wrench into the situation. Luckily, others have already addressed this issue. Many times over in fact, leaving many to wonder which solution to Read More
I created a web service today with CXF and wanted to share the steps it took to get it up and running in this quick tutorial. Apache CXF was created by the merger of the Celtix and XFire projects. I chose to implement my service in CXF because some colleagues had been using XFire and Read More
I tried to run an Ant target within Eclipse today and got a fun error: BUILD FAILED java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/javadoc/Type This happened because Ant could not find tools.jar, which contains classes to used to run javac and javadoc. The solution: Open up Window->Preferences->Java->Installed JREs Set your default JRE to a JDK/SDK Open up the one you Read More
A few times now I’ve tried to use ASM 2.2.3 in an application that was utilizing Hibernate. It doesn’t work the way you’d hope. The easiest solution I’ve found is to remove the CGLib and ASM (1.5.3), which come with Hibernate and instead replace them with a copy of cglib-nodep. Using the no dependencies version Read More
I’ve been creating websites for years, since I started Tab World Online while in high school. That site was receiving 1 million page views per month before I sold it, though admittedly I knew comparatively little about web development at the time. So today, I decided I’d take the plunge, live in the spirit of Read More