JAVA 5 and Maven 2.2.1 on Snow Leopard OSX

No Comments// Posted in Java, Uncategorized by admin on 05.02.11.

Currently i am working on a project that requires the java 5 jdk and maven 2.2.1.
I knew OSX came with Java and Maven preinstalled, but i was a bit baffled with the fact you cannot chose which jdk to compile to.
Snow Leopard also seems to use maven 3 by default.
After a fair amount of googling [...]

Apple Store Experience, and shipment via “Expeditors Shanghai”

1 Comment// Posted in Uncategorized by admin on 03.19.11.

I recently ordered a MacBookPro from the Belgian apple store.
I customized my new MBP a bit, and i ordered some peripherals like a remote and a dvi-cable.
As i did my modifications, i saw the shipment date shift from 1 day to 1 – 3 days.
Effectively, after my payment was cleared, my MBP was assembled, and [...]

Google AdSense

No Comments// Posted in Uncategorized by admin on 02.27.11.

I have been fidling around with google adsense lately.
I have to say this is very easy to integrate in your site.
If you are using wordpress, i can higly reccomend the wordpress-rax-google-adsense-plugin

MessageFormat and Quotes (in JSF Tags)

1 Comment// Posted in JSF, Java, Web by admin on 01.20.10.

java.text.MessageFormat has the odd behaviour of deleting single quotes when they are passed in via the pattern string.
This is no bug, but in my opinion the documentation of this api ‘feature’ is not very clear.
If you want to give it a try though you can find the api explications
here.
And if you want you can find [...]

Iphone Support

No Comments// Posted in iphone by admin on 12.30.09.

The website is now fully compatible with the Iphone. This is achieved via the excellent wptouch plugin.
Let me know what we can improve!

Ninite

No Comments// Posted in Uncategorized by admin on 12.27.09.

I just came across this superhandy tool called Ninite. Basically it let’s you choose all the programs you want to install on your windows box, and then provides you an installer for all the latest versions of those programs!
Check it out on ninite.com

Joomla 1.5.15 left to right print bug

No Comments// Posted in Uncategorized by admin on 12.18.09.

Joomla 1.5.15 text right to left rtl

On a recent Joomla project, i noticed the text was aligned right to left when you want to print an article. This is due to a few missing brackets in the component.php file.
The component.php file is located under site-root/templates/system/component.php.
You need to change line 29.
From this:

if($this->direction == ‘rtl’ && !file_exists(JPATH_THEMES.DS.$template.DS.’css/template_rtl.css’) [...]

JSF 1.1 Tomahawk SelectOneRadio And DataTable

No Comments// Posted in Java by admin on 12.18.09.

In JSF it is rather difficult to put a SelectOneRadio (a radioButton) in a dataTable.
This actually does not work out of the box with the standard implementation. The problem and the solution will be explained here.
The Problem
The following JSF page fragment shows the usage of the h:selectOneRadio tag

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Time is money: Formatting Strings and Dates

2 Comments// Posted in Java by admin on 12.17.09.

Small things can have big impacts. We all know this saying.
But this is not always obvious. On my current project, we are writing a rather complicated batch that has to go fast.
It has a few dependencies on webservices, on the database, on file I/O and as always: it has some businesslogic in it.
While this little [...]

De Spiraal

No Comments// Posted in CMS by admin on 12.13.09.

Jeugdcentrum De Spiraal is het jongerencentrum van de stad Geraardsbergen. Het omvat een aantal diensten specifiek gericht op jongeren. Zo is er een speelpleinwerking, een jeugdcentrum, een jeugdhuis en een jac in vervat.
Tevens worden hier ook fuiven en festiviteiten georganiseerd. Je kan de zalen huren voor allerhande aangelegendheden.
De website moest vooral jongeren aanspreken, en heeft [...]