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Google Suggests.

The coolest web tool I’ve seen in a while. Google Suggests works by suggesting some search results WHILE YOU ARE TYPING search keywords (without refreshing the page). Thanks go to Chris Justus from Server Side Guy for pointing out the service and its internals. The google code uses an XMLHttp object to make calls back to google, and executing...

… and Eclipse again

Despite that I like Netbeans (with also emotional attachement as it is the first IDE I’d worked with), I switched back to Eclipse after managing to get Lomboz JSP editor working (It worked on Eclipse 3.0 with EMF installed, it previously refrained to work on 3.1M3 with “Unable to Create Part” error). Some of the reasons that made me...

Netbeans Again

I’m going back to NetBeans. One year ago I ditched NetBeans and went for eclipse (partly becuase of speed, partly because of interface), but the lack of opensource simple JSP editors had made me take the decision of going back to netbeans (hope I won’t regret it).NetBeans comes bundled with its own JSP editors and built in web container...

W:Bloggar – Cool Tool

This is my first post using W:Bloggar(Well sort of – I had to post it first to the blog, then publish it from there – WBloggar gave me a type mismatch error). What a wonderful tool, It simply rocks (just hope it works 🙂 What else could one need? (mmmm…. an eclipse plugin for JSP editing? 🙂 Thanks to...

Eclipse going back to Netbeans

I’m still so tired having no decent JSP plugins. Eclipse’s Web Tools Platform (M1) is not working with Eclipse (3.1 M3) or at least I can’t set it up to work correctly (it can’t even detect any changes even with “-clean” flag). LOMBOZ was working on 2.1 and could be working with 3.0, but not with 3.1M3 (as far...

Changes to my Blog

Recent changes: Background title image (sunset.jpg): The picture was taken during September 2004 in Alexandria, Egypt. The beach is Aida beach (yes, the same name as that of the opera). Rearrangements and Additions to the right navigation bar and in the CSS. Recent Comments Shortcut based on Euxx’s velocity code (I guess I’ve already started wtih with Velocity scripting)....

Eclipse and JSPs plugins

I’m fed up with trying to get an Eclipse plugin for JSP editing. I just want a simple opensource plugin that would help me with JSP editing. LOMBOZ won’t work with Eclipse 3.1 (mined the mailing lists, forums with no chance/time to get it to work). Others do not provide any decent functionalities. I will try the Web Tools...

Are Java Developers spreading too thin?

Just a thought… are we spreading ourselves too thin? Plethora of specifications, patterns, frameworks, tools, articles, bugs, work-arounds and issuesto read, learn, prototype and use. I can hardly find time for anything else – not even to generate revenue from these things I learn. And as the spectrum widens the burden increase. Has anyone else felt the same? Migrated...

OFBiz Mysteries

Still exploring the mysteries of OFBiz. Why is this stuff so obscure? I beleive it’s a wonderful product but, as it has been mentioned before, the docs are way behind. I managed to get some data into OFBiz DB via Web Tools XML Import functionality, but, would have loved to know how data in various tables are interdependent (business...

MySQL with X for XML

While trying to transfer some data from MySQL into OFBiz, I had to format these in XML. MySQL options came to the rescue. The command line tool from MySQL have this cool option (mysql -X …)  that helps formatting any resultset into XML. I just had to do some text replacements and encoding then uploaded the data into OFBiz.