I’m trying out the wordpress plugin Code Markup by Bennett McElwee. We’ll see how well it works…
Month: July 2007
Search with Lucene
The Apache project Lucene has gotten a lot of attention as a good open source search platform. Any one who needs search capabilities should consider Lucene in their due diligence.
Charts in Seam
From the Seam Forums: Using JFreeChart with Seam can be quite useful:
Fixing Fixed-Width Text Files
To remove the end line characters in a text file that has every line truncated at 80 chars… perl -pi -e ‘s/(….+)\r\n/$1 /’ filename.txt perl -pi -e ‘s/\n/\n\n/’ filename.txt Then open in Write –> copy and paste into word.
Replace Text
Here’s a quick one-liner for perl… replace every occurance of “boring” with “fun”: perl -pi.bak -e ‘s/boring/fun/’ filename.txt
Recursive Search
I usually use Windows Explorer to find something recursively within a folder hierarchy… but sometimes it doesn’t work based on the file types. When that happens, I fall back to this find + grep combination (available with cygwin utils): find . -type f -exec grep needle {} \; -print It looks for the word “needle”… Continue reading Recursive Search
Windows Time Synch
Windows nicely ships with a little utility that updates your system time with an internet server so that the clock won’t skew over time. This is a Pretty Good Idea, but alas, it went away several months ago. The built-in servers time.windows.com and time.nist.gov no longer respond to requests to get the current/correct time. As… Continue reading Windows Time Synch
JBoss as a Service on Windows
Want to run JBoss as a Windows Service? The old suggested solution was to use Java Service Wrapper, but the Wiki states it is no longer recommended. An alternative recently surfaced… The JBossWeb Project includes a native launcher that allows JBoss AS to be installed as a windows service. The tool uses your run.bat as… Continue reading JBoss as a Service on Windows
JSF Tricks
Here are a few tricks over at the MyFaces Wiki: Executing an action when a drop-down value changes Executing an action when the enter key is pressed The latter is helpful when the Ajax4JSF components stop the enter key from submitting a form / executing an action. The rest of the wiki is a little… Continue reading JSF Tricks
Hello world!
Hello! This is going to be my place to store code, tips, and tricks as I find things worth saving…