Choosing a Java Version on Ubuntu
When you have got multiple versions of Java installed, you can choose which one you want to use by running the update-alternatives command. Running this command shows a list of installed Java JDKs and...
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Hosting WordPress On OpenShift
If you’ve not heard of OpenShift, it’s: “a free, cloud-based application platform for Java, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby applications.” OpenShift uses git to publish files to your site, so the general...
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Using the ShrinkWrap Maven Resolver for Arquillian Tests
This post assumes that you’re familiar with using Arquillian for testing Java applications. If you’re not familiar with Arquillian, then I suggest you check out the guides at http://www.arquillian.org/...
View ArticleCannot play DVD in Ubuntu
Yesterday I was trying to view a DVD on Ubuntu, but was getting an error stating that the DVD was encrypted, but there was no DVD decryption library available. It turns out that its easy to add the...
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Developing Java EE 6 Applications With TomEE and NetBeans
I’ve found that one of the most productive ways of developing Java EE applications is by using NetBeans and the TomEE application server. For those of you that haven’t used TomEE before, it’s a Java...
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OpenShift Users – time to update your rhc tools
If you use OpenShift, Mike Mcgrath is stating that there are some performance enhancements to the rhc client tools and its a good chance to update them on your system. Users who have been creating...
View ArticleUsing Angular.js Factories to Get Remote Data
In this post, I’d like to show the differences between using an Angular.js factory to get local JSON data vs remote data via an AJAX call. For this example, I’m assuming that we have a JSON dataset...
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Using the Windows Phone Toolkit in WP8 Applications
Visual Studio 2012 for Windows Phone is supplied with a large selection of user interface components enabling you to build Windows Phone 8 applications. There are some components, such as a toggle...
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Rise for Windows Phone 8
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve released Rise for Windows Phone 8 which can be downloaded for free from the Windows Phone Store. Rise allows you to find out the sun rise and sun set times for either...
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Creating a Stepped Slider Control for Windows Phone 8
In Windows Phone 8, we can add a slider control onto a XAML page using the Slider element. <Slider Name="MySlider" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Maximum="12" Minimum="-12" /> As can be seen, the...
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Unable to launch the IIS Express Web Server – Error 0×80070020
Recently I received an error 0×80070020 when trying to launch IIS Express stating Unable to launch the IIS Express Web server. Failed to register URL “http://localhost:49286/@ for site …. The process...
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Rise for Windows Phone 8
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve released Rise for Windows Phone 8 which can be downloaded for free from the Windows Phone Store. Rise allows you to find out the sun rise and sun set times for either...
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Creating a Stepped Slider Control for Windows Phone 8
In Windows Phone 8, we can add a slider control onto a XAML page using the Slider element. <Slider Name="MySlider" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Maximum="12" Minimum="-12" /> As can be seen, the...
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Unable to launch the IIS Express Web Server – Error 0×80070020
Recently I received an error 0×80070020 when trying to launch IIS Express stating Unable to launch the IIS Express Web server. Failed to register URL “http://localhost:49286/@ for site …. The process...
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The new Eclipse logo
In a blog post today, Ian Skerrett has announced the new logo for Eclipse. Last fall we [The Eclipse Foundation] started a process to update the Eclipse logo. The existing logo had not been change...
View ArticleIs Maven 2 about to be EOL’ed?
In the Maven mailing list,Stephen Connolly has posted a question, should we “declare Maven 2.x as end of life”. He states: We have not made a release of Maven 2.x since 2.2.1 which was August 2009....
View ArticleCreating Maven Projects For WildFly
The JBoss/WildFly way to configure Maven projects makes developing Java EE 7 applications with WildFly very straightforward. Configuring a project to use the JBoss Java EE 7 Bill Of Materials (BOM)...
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Unable to start WildFly from NetBeans ?
NetBeans 8 provides native support for WildFly 8. Sometimes however, WildFly can fail to start from within NetBeans. In these instances, the following error is displayed within the NetBeans “WildFly...
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Rapid Bootstrap CDN Support in NetBeans
I’ve just published a NetBeans 8 plugin that allows developers to quickly add links to Bootstrap CSS (hosted by bootstrapcdn.com) into their .xhtml files. Once installed, the plugin is appears on the...
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Bootstrap CDN Plugin for NetBeans Release 1.1.0
I’ve just released version 1.1.0 of the Bootstrap CDN Support Plugin for NetBeans 8. The Bootstrap CDN plugin allows you to easily add references to the Bootstrap CSS and JS files hosted at the...
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