tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22451043448925581882011-09-21T06:04:19.085-07:00kreskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13902343437427685679noreply@blogger.comBlogger321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2245104344892558188.post-24170529645623608632011-08-18T08:21:00.000-07:002011-08-18T08:46:18.694-07:00

I've spend quite a long time today trying to fix encoding issue on one of our simple services. The service resource takes couple of path parameters and can take two optional parameters from servletRequest. One of the parameters is a String, which may contain UTF-8 characters. Later on the service checks if given String exists in a cache, and if it does it let's us know in the response. It

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I spend some time trying to fix that one, so I figured I should put it on the blog, so I won't forget about it.We use cargo maven plugin at work to set up some container tests for our services. One of the services I checked out had a problem with it's container tests but only when they were executed via our hudson.The error message said something like:

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And he can explain it so much better than I can:http://java.dzone.com/articles/static-methods-are-death-testa

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I like my code tested. It's not only because there are important and successful people in the industry that say that's the thing to do. I like my code tested, because I have trust issues. I don't trust other developers, not the people I work with right now, they are all right, but the people who will pick up my code 6 months from now, or even later, when I'm not around. I don't even trust myself

kreskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13902343437427685679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2245104344892558188.post-54611325312385225992010-04-14T08:55:00.000-07:002010-04-14T08:56:44.130-07:00

I'm learning about coherence grid today and I found this great "getting started" page:http://www.packtpub.com/article/installing-coherence-3.5-and-accessing-the-data-grid-1Not only I have a local Grid up and running, and apps talking with it, but I also understand how everything works (so far :)).

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When you use org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender, you might want to test it with your local syslog. It is fairly easy once you know how to do it, but most of info I could find in the web was for Linux users, and it turns out a Mac OS syslog configuration for this is a bit different, so here's a version for mac users:1. Get your SyslogAppender set, let's say we'll be using LOCAL1 facility:Logger

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I do like a good diagram, and I love to spent some time on preparing them. Trying to make them as colorful and well designed as possible (especially when there's nothing more exciting to be done at the moment). For all the diagram lovers there's a quite good tool available online called Gliffy - http://www.gliffy.com/ . You can create diagrams in your browser window even without creating any

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Like most of java developers I use maven at work. It's a solid, useful tool and it integrates well with different environments, version control tools and other system components. One of the nice things that maven allows us to do it to release the build when we want to mark a certain point in development cycle when we're ready to say "ok, up to here, everything is good, and should stay the way it

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Making technical presentation is a challenge if you're like me: shy, and usually not knowing enough about the technology that's being presented. You might think that the latter would make things easier or at least wouldn't matter when facing non-technical audience, but unfortunately that's not the case. Technical presentation for non technical people is one of the challenges that engineers face

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This morning, I've finally got my Google waves invitation. Didn't have much time to play around it, but what I did manage was:an IM-like chat with a friend that ended up little bit messy when I've discovered I can change her texts ... WHILE she's typing them :)a mail-like exchange with a friend who invited me to wave, and was too busy to have a proper chatnew wave with working google gadget -

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Lots of people ask me what do I do on a train. I spend two hours commuting to London every day, and luckily I travel in comfortable, not very crowded train which route gets me exactly where I need to be without changing. So far I used to watch movies and TV series on my laptop, listen to music on the phone and read books i.e. do the standard stuff. I do a lot of reading about development and I'll

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Since more than half of my team is either in US, recovering from sickness or enjoying time off it ended up being really boring day at work. With only one QA person "Borrowed" from other project team there aren't enough defects to keep us occupied. That's why in desperate act of trying to do *something* I've googled "best Firefox addons for bloggers" and I found ScribeFire, which seems to be very

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If you like me, enjoy looking and cute and weird and inspiring and "techy" images you need to subscribe to ffffound.com rrs feed. It floods you with great, sometimes funny or weird images every day. Ah, those hours in train spent just on looking at those.... :)

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Git is version control system that we use in my new company. It's is a collection of C tools, and script wrappers provided for ease of use. It's UNIX styled, command line tool that is constantly developed and improved. When you visit the Git Project site, you'll learn that git is free, open source software, and that main focus of developers was to provide fast and not expensive branching and

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So, yeah, I managed to pass the certification exam. Feels oddly normal :). Anyway I bet it will look great on my cv... and linked in... AND facebook :D. Will post a photo of certificate once I'll get my hands on it.

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Haven’t written anything for a while. New contact form is added to kreska's box (and soon will be added on kreska's notes). I used facebox and this tutorial.Lots of things happened (hence the lack of new posts lately): I've got new job (yay) in London (3 hours in train every day - booh), but I will be doing Java again (yay). Also I have my SCJP exam this Thursday (booh). Will add more stuff here

kreskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13902343437427685679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2245104344892558188.post-91653410188044884632009-03-25T01:06:00.000-07:002009-03-25T01:08:29.634-07:00

I failed to notice Ada Lovelace Day yesterday, but I still want to remember this extraordinary women - world’s first programmer. Check out her wiki page.

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I think most people agree that unit tests are good. You can complain that they are not enough, that sometimes you need to test more than, well, a unit, but at the end you have to agree that it's better to use them than not to use them.Since c# is Object Oriented - you have classes objects, all the good stuff, you do have units and you can test them. To do unit test in Visual Studio I use NUnit

kreskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13902343437427685679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2245104344892558188.post-60406921445267289652009-03-13T02:47:00.000-07:002009-03-16T04:31:43.190-07:00

Data Binding in WPF UI design is a way of pulling information out of one object and displaying it in user interface controls. WPF makes data binding very easy, and powerful toll, that allows UI developer to provide a lot of functionality to app's windows without lots of changes in c# code.I have a simple example of how data binding is usually used in WPF.Lets start with defining an Object that we

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Searchng for different ways of designing web based UI I diceded to have a look at JQuery - a JavaScript library that allows you to create and style really impressive widgets to use on your website. To prove that it's really good thing to have a look, here's an example:accordion exampleNice isn't it? That's an example you get with your first jQuery install. You can modify and style it any way you

kreskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13902343437427685679noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2245104344892558188.post-52590216692893338232009-03-11T07:41:00.000-07:002009-03-11T07:43:46.086-07:00

While researching for work I've stumbled upon a great web 2.0 design tips set on webdesignfromscratch.com. Heck it out here: www.webdesignfromscratch.com/web-2.0-design-style-guide.php

kreskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13902343437427685679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2245104344892558188.post-38663208077292254602009-03-10T02:47:00.000-07:002009-03-10T02:52:12.120-07:00

Highly reccomend this site to any developer. Icon sets that are listed there can be used in any personal, or commercial project without any back-links or credid to the author. I guess anybody will agree it's not easy to find those. Link to the site: www.iconpot.comand to the rss feed: feeds2.feedburner.com/iconpot

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To use regular experssions in C# use System.Text.RegularExpressions class. It provides a Regex class, which objects represent your expressions. You can later use IsMatch(String textToCheck) method of this class to see wheter the textToCheck maches your expression:using System.Text.RegularExpressions;using System;public bool IsAlphaNumeric(String textToCheck){ Regex objAlphaNumericPattern=new

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Recently I was presented with interesting problem, and solution I provided was implementation of certain idea I have about how I *should* design my css styles.The element I needed to provide was a form, that contained editable descriptions of different elements...Each element needs a set of input fields. Some of them are marked common, and appear only once for an element but some of them define a

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I had a pleasuer to attend Natalie Downe "CSS Systems" presentation that was part of Brighton Girl Geeks dinner meeting. I enjoyed both presentation and great atmosphere of gathering of many people connected by the same interests, talents and industry from the same area.Have a look at Brighton Geek Girls website to track those meetings

kreskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13902343437427685679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2245104344892558188.post-62028349682717332362009-02-26T08:43:00.000-08:002009-03-09T07:08:58.907-07:00

Alright, in previous part we've created lovely shaped window, remember?But our lovely shaped window doesn't do much. In fact it does less that we expected it to do! W cannot resize it(!), we cannot move it(!!) and what's worse we cannot close it (!!!). I do hope you managed to close down Visual Studio after previous tutorial...I'll show you how to add this functionality to our window in this

kreskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13902343437427685679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2245104344892558188.post-48845165188229322882009-02-25T01:36:00.000-08:002009-03-09T07:09:55.197-07:00

So, you want to create shaped window in WPF? Here is quick and simple recipe:1. Create new project and add a Window to the project:xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Title="Window2" Height="300" Width="300"> 2. Get rid of windows style border and title bar, and make sure your window allows transparency:

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Still on the track of being The Greatest Front End Developer in the World :).Here's nice and practical list of advices on how to make you css better.Will try to implement at least few of them.

kreskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13902343437427685679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2245104344892558188.post-24892438375866184272009-02-18T01:43:00.000-08:002009-02-25T01:11:18.810-08:00

Many big players are using it (facebook for example). Big files full of small images - tiles used as sprites in your CSS based UI interface. I like it - reminds me of old mobile game development times :). Did that for the external links menu on left side of website. Seems to work fine.What would be a post without a useful link?

kreskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13902343437427685679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2245104344892558188.post-55426585968914851052009-02-18T01:13:00.000-08:002009-02-25T01:13:37.479-08:00

Guess it's not a good idea to work in .NET if you don't know anything about it. Well, nobody asked, so here I am, trying to figure out what's WPF all about.Beware world of UI Developers :)Here's a useful link about dependency properties.

kreskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13902343437427685679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2245104344892558188.post-15200771569733714462009-02-17T06:18:00.001-08:002009-02-25T01:13:55.092-08:00

Just put an url to the feed you need to read and generate nice simple and working(!) script that shows needed data on your website. Wanted to use PHP functions before, but they have troubles with connecting remote servers through firewire on my server.Get it here

kreskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13902343437427685679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2245104344892558188.post-18043265450713900152009-02-17T05:48:00.000-08:002009-02-25T01:14:13.334-08:00

I'm getting more and more interested in UI design and devlopment of apps. I'm kinda pushed into that in my current job, but I'm begining to like it. Stumbled on wireframing while going through some documents from project I'm working on, and decided to investigate.Here is an interestng link

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