Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
One of the things that came up recently at work is a way to resolve IP addresses to hostnames client-side without any server calls. Here are some of the possibilites that I thought off :
o Using Javascript to call Java's java.net.InetAddress class to resolve (only works in Mozilla and Opera, ...
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
(This is a followup on an earlier post about availability of GPS info on Sprint PCS's CDMA network)
Recently I had a short email exchange with someone at Sprint about obtaining access to their LBS information for the use in my company's products. My company targets a small vertical niche market ...
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
Just a short note - if you ever run across a problem where Eclipse refuses to build two projects which rely on each other, there is a fast way to fix this.
Go to "Window", "Preferences", "Java", "Compiler". The last tab called "Build Path" has an option to change the circular ...
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
Recently I have noticed that my XSLT testing with Apache Xalan suddenly stopped working. A further investigation revealed that this was caused by the fact that JDK 1.5 no longer ships with Xalan, but includes XSLTC instead. Unfortunatly for me I needed to use Xalan so this is how I ...
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
I am not 100% sure if it is a bug, but the consensus within my company seems to indicate that it is. Here is a copy of the bug report filed with Sun:
synopsis: DecimalFormat with a Lot of "#" Returns Incorrect Results for Floats
FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
java ...
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2004
The Register and SANS ISC are reporting a major security hole in Java plugin which makes applets work in browsers. This hole allows JavaScript access to stuff which should normally be restricted. ALL BROWSERS utilizing the Java Plugin are affected on ALL platforms including IE, Opera, Mozilla Suite and Firefox. ...
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2004
One of the bugs we reported to Sun before got posted to Sun's bug database under # 4987749 (although it might take a day or two to propogate). Use this link:
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4987749.html
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Monday, January 12th, 2004
A copy of the bug report we submitted to Sun is included here for the curious: (its long and nasty)
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2003
After some digging in the JVM source code, our CTO came out with the exact source of the problem and a possible workaround. Of course this is all at your risk, so don't blame us or Sun if you have problems. A copy of the message we submited to Sun ...
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Sunday, November 2nd, 2003
Almost forgot to mention - a few days ago I posted a new draft of the consent framework. This draft (v0.03) has less insurance-policy language and more plain English, plus some pictures.
Another thought while I am at it - if you ever use Java Servlets, and wonder why everything stops ...
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