January 2008 - Posts

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Hear my father sing by lamia

One of the reasons I work is to help my parent. I love to show them how I love them and appreciate them in every little way I can. For 2 years that I've been working in this industry, I've been trying to help my father upgrade his PC everytime...
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If-Else vs Throwing an Exception to handle errors by lamia

Note: In reading this post, please disregard for a moment the difference between an exception and an error. I mainly used the word error for convenience. Thank you. Yesterday, I was given a tip by my team lead which I found nice and quite elegant to do...
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Code Completion shortcut in RAD7(and maybe also in other IDE's) by lamia

I was whining why RAD's automatic code(and browsing) completion for HTML and XML tag sucks. I approached my team lead and told him about it. I told him that Netbean's and Eclipse's WTP plugin did it way better. He smiled and told me to press...
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Should Scala Extend the Java Language Capability? by lamia

While reading Bruce Eckel's article, Java: Evolutionary Dead End, he mentioned of another programming language which is somehow based on Java(and runs on the same VM) but has the feel and construct of a Scripting language(e.g. Ruby). I got interested...
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Oracle SQLDeveloper by lamia

I've been fiddling with Oracle SQLDeveloper lately. What I liked about it is that it's free and second, it's an alternantive to M$ SQLServer. I think you could even use it for other RDBMS other than Oracle like MySQL and SQLServer. It's...
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Struts Tiles Definition Inheritance and ASP.Net Masterpages by lamia

While studying about Struts Tiles, I encountered the topic about definitions and inheriting from other definitions. For those who are not yet familiar with Tiles, a definition defines a tile or template. This reminded me of ASP.Net Master Pages which...
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SVN for the first time... by lamia

It's my first time to use SVN. It's funny how I first got acquainted with Visual Sourcesafe than this opensource tool. I think Most Java developers would typically get involved in SVN than VSS. But now though, I'm quite happy learning about...
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Deploying your Jar with your War in Eclipse by lamia

Note: I've done the following using Rad7 but should also be applicable to Eclipse(since RAD7 is basically made on top of Eclipse). When you have total control of you web container/app server, deploying jar files is as easy as dropping the folder in...
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