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Category Archives: programming
Installing Eclipse on Linux
Eclipse is an amazing example of an open source project that easily dwarfs its commercial competition. Does an IDE make you a weaker programmer? I don’t think so. If it makes you more productive, help you with syntax, or speeds up … Continue reading
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Installing Tomcat on Linux
Most of my needs for serving up web content can normally be summed up in a few static pages. To serve those pages up you would usually find an Apache server in the background. Apache is a general purpose server … Continue reading
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command line fun – finding the right jar file
Where did I set down my mobile phone is quickly answered by a quick telephone call or a sms from another phone. If everything were only that simple. I receive a bit of code from a buddy at work that … Continue reading
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Evolution of LED Lighting – software solution
In my previous blog entry, Evolution of LED Lighting – hardware and tools, I only managed to describe the tools and hardware as well as a first project to test the ability to upload new programs to the device. Some … Continue reading
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Evolution of LED Lighting – hardware and tools
Flashback I wanted to buy home automation electronics, nothing really fancy just a WiFi controller for a led strip. When shopping for things like this Pay attention. I saw something that spoke about WiFi and was really quite cheap so I … Continue reading
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windows scripting
I was asked the other day if I could take over a task that was running on windows machine. The sentence was hardly out of my boss’s mouth when he said that “you unix guys don’t like windows though”. Well, … Continue reading
Machine generation of PDF files the easy way – final piece
This is essentially a refinement of the previous steps. I have added a lot of new list data but instead of being limited to what political party they are in or even if they like to party, I have extended … Continue reading
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Machine generation of PDF files the easy way – part VI
The entire example report up until this point has been nice with a cool feature or two but terribly unrealistic. It is important to have the data in mind when creating the form but the form that I have created … Continue reading
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Machine generation of PDF files the easy way – part V
While preparing these articles I didn’t have an overarching goal. I probably should have began with the header and footer and kept that through all examples but I changed my focus while writing this all up. This fifth example just … Continue reading
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Machine generation of PDF files the easy way – part IV
This fourth example will extend upon my previous XSL-FO script to convert the list from a table with a few boxes into more of a polished form. The final result will generate a form and will look like this. You … Continue reading
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