Number of days between two dates? (Java)
Recently a needed to get the number of days between two dates in Java.Easy, right? Quite a few pages & articles suggest, and I admit my first iteration too, was: Calendar firstDay = new...
View ArticleSimple HTTP Server in Java
Just for fun (well, almost), I wrote my very own simple HTTP server in Java (download 100 KB ZIP) the other night. It uses Java5 features, and requires no external libraries. While it certainly does...
View ArticleMaking Movies
The other week-end Dév and I made an animated movie of his current favourite toys, including soundtrack. He loved it - almost as much as "real" Thomas the Engine episodes.PS: Thanks Google Video for...
View ArticleWSDL Validation with wsdl4j
Imagine a set up where a team A provides Web Services to Team B. The service team A uses a "contract first" SOA approach, so they hand-write WSDL (more on that another time) and generate Java from it...
View ArticleSetting up two-way (mutual) SSL with Tomcat on Java5 is easy!
I recently wanted to set up Tomcat for two-way (mutual) SSL. It turns out this is fairly easy, particularly with Java5 since it now provides writes, and not just reads, of PKCS#12 keystores directly,...
View ArticleElectronic Passports - done all wrong?
Yesterday the morning newspaper carried a (very short) article about new Electronic Passports being hacked or something like that. I wanted to know what that was about, and some Googling revealed that...
View ArticleXFire Example: Contract First & Spring
From: Michael VorburgerSubject: Proposed new XFire example: Use of wsgen/xfire (contract first), and SpringTo: user@xfire.codehaus.orgHello,The XFire distribution includes only one simple example of a...
View ArticleGMail offline - via Google Desktop
I just realized that you CAN read Gmail offline... via Google Desktop! (You have to enable that "Search Gmail [X] Index and search email in my Gmail account" thingie; if you do, full copies of all...
View ArticleMachine translation progress
Machine translation seems to have made impressive progress in the last few years. Running e.g. a Wikipedia Article article through Google Language Tools or Systranbox.com (which produces the almost...
View ArticlesoapUI
If you develop SOAP-based Web Services, there is a tool that you will not want to miss once you have tried it. It's soapUI, an open-source GUI for easily and very quickly creating and firing off SOAP...
View ArticleSWSDL - Simple WSDL format, and my swsdl2wsdl
Hand writing WSDL (Web Service Description Language, stop reading here if that doesn't mean much to you?) is a pain. The GUIs I have seen (whether XML Spy or Eclipse WTP or...) don't really change the...
View ArticlePropagating Acegi's Security Context in a WSS UsernameToken SOAP Header via...
XFire includes a ws-security example, which demonstrates how a SOAP Header with a Web Service Security (WSS) UsernameToken can be inserted into an outgoing request message, using Apache's wss4j...
View ArticleJUnit in Ant Classpath Hell
Running JUnit tests from an Ant build script - piece of cake? Welcome to Classpath Hell. Read the Ant FAQ for a taste of what to expect... (NOTE: Ant 1.7, which just came up, finally "solves" this, but...
View ArticleGoogle Maps Street View
I had heard about the new "Street View" in Google Maps earlier but just tried it for real tonight...To "walk" from my previous life office on 11 John Street over to Ground Zero and Battery Park, then...
View ArticleliftConference Venture Night
I am at the Venture Night of the lift conference in Geneva this evening. It's an interesting change from the sort of things I think about in my current day job. Some thoughts about the companies that...
View ArticleTesting OpenJPA SQL statements using a JDBCListener
I am currently designing something around FetchGroups in OpenJPA, and being a good Agile / Test Driven architect, I wanted to write a JUnit which asserts the actual SQL statement generated by this ORM...
View ArticleGetterMethodsReflectionToStringBuilder
Apache Commons Langhas a ToStringBuilderwhichissometimeshandy.The other day I needed something like this which "reflects" on public getters() instead of on private fields, so I hacked one; I call it...
View ArticlexText Standalone Setup Parsing a DSL from a String without EMF Resource
I have been playing with xText, a very interesting framework for development of textual domain specific languages (DSLs).My interest is around an (existing, legacy) expression language, and twofold: a)...
View ArticleLinks for kids, learning websites & software
Here is a list of some links to learning websites & software for kids which others may find useful, from my delicious.com bookmarks. Most I've them I have myself used with my son...
View ArticlePrivacy, Firefox Geolocation, Google Location Service
I vaguely knew there was something like a W3C Geolocation API, had earlier read about the Google Gears Geolocation API, figured Yahoo had some Geo Technologies.I had heard this works on recent mobile...
View ArticleCustomer Loyalty (KISSfp)
Recently I received one of the more fascinating emails in quite a while. Quite an experience, really. With Bill's permission, here it is:Hi, Mike,Sorry to bother you at this email, but I keep getting...
View ArticleJPA Id/Object References always, with Null Objects, a Pattern?
An object has references to other objects. A row in a relational database table has foreign keys (FK) to rows in other tables.While this basic "impedence mismatch" between the model used in the...
View ArticlePranav Mistry's SixthSense - on an Android-based wearable projector+webcam...
A visiting family friend of ours pointed me to Pranav Mistry's SixthSense. If you haven't seen this already, do watch the Videos - it's really Pretty Cool Stuff.A few days later I still can't stop...
View ArticleThis blog has moved
An archive of this blog, which you can still comment on, is now located at http://blog1.vorburger.ch. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds or you may click here.My New Blog (as of July...
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