I change screen resolutions on my Mac frequently — adding or removing external monitors, using external monitors of different sizes… Every once in a while a window is placed off screen or is too large to be resized within the screen available. Here’s a script to fix that…
Google Voice Dialer for iPhone
Got Google Voice? Want caller-id to show that number when you call someone instead of your iPhone’s actual mobile number? It appears there is no “app for that” as Apple, AT&T and Google don’t want to play nice… Here’s a workaround…
Mac Keyboard Hacks
Want to change your control key and caps lock key on your Mac (or just disable your caps lock key)? Use the built-in settings (System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys). Want to change your fn key? Use DoubleCommand.
Firefox Gestures
I was just playing around with some of the Firefox Gestures that are available on a Mac, and went looking for a list of commands that you can have the gestures trigger… since it wasn’t easy to find, here’s the scoop.
RSS Feed Translation
Got an interesting RSS feed you wan to follow, but it’s in a different language? You can use the steps from this article by Rafe Needleman. The process includes using Yahoo Pipes to get the RSS feed, translate it, and then create new content output from that. Not horribly complicated, and quite a nice trick… Continue reading RSS Feed Translation
Hibernate @GeneratedValue
I spent a bit of time figuring out what all the annotations for a Hibernate/JPA @Id field should be, and wanted to document it. First up, with any entity, you need to add an @Id annotation to a field, I typically use a Long field.
Domain Move
FYI, I will be retiring the www.elegando.com domain when it expires later this year. All content will now be at elegando.jcg3.org instead. Please update your RSS feed readers as appropriate…
Apache Fronting JBoss
I found this page gave me what I needed to set up mod_jk in Apache to sit in front of JBoss. http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/UsingModjk12WithJBoss
Seam + Google App Engine
I was looking around to see if anyone got Seam working on the Google App Engine for Java… and the short answer is both yes and no. Here are the 3 links that will tell you the state of the state as of this writing… SeamFramework – The people who developed Seam lay down their… Continue reading Seam + Google App Engine
Firefox Profile Info
Every once in a while, I seem to need to start with a fresh profile in Firefox… here’s the Mozilla support document on keeping only what you want… for me, passwords, bookmarks, and search plugins. Everything else is easier to reinstall…