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The following is a list of all entries from the Articles category.

Speeding up Firefox

Filed in Other, Tutorials, April 7, 2005, 9:48 am

Firefox is my browser of choice. I really love the tabbed features, extensions and correct rendering of css. There are times though when it feels sooooo slow. It is mainly when starting up the program and occasionaly when opening links in new popup windows. So whenever I can find some tips to speed it up, […]

Fraud Advise

Filed in Articles, March 8, 2005, 5:39 pm

In the interest of Service and good will, but really just to provide my own online copy here’s an email that I got from my dad to day. Some good advice to follow
ATTORNEY’S ADVICE — NO CHARGE Read this and make a copy for your files in case you need to refer to it […]

Tables

Filed in Links, Tutorials, February 17, 2005, 11:33 am

With the standards revolution in full swing, it seems that a lot of sites look at tables as pure evil. But you are actually supposed to use tables for tabular data. I know it sounds crazy, but information that is supposed to be in a table, actually looks good in a table.
Enter Setting the Table. […]

Java regex

Filed in Articles, Other, February 3, 2005, 8:41 am

After pulling my hair out trying to use the String.matches() function I stumbled upon this entry that helped me realize that I wasn’t going crazy, but that there actually was something wrong (unexpected) happening. The entire string needed to match not just a part as I was thinking. I’m glad I’m not nuts!
And now I’ve […]

Microsoft Searching

Filed in Tutorials, Website, January 27, 2005, 8:21 am

With all the hoopla about the Desktop Search guides, it is very intersting to note that Windows XP already has a very fast search tool built in. It’s the mysterious Indexer, that through an error in programming, never got hooked to the Search dialog. All you need to do to enable this feature is add […]

Using JUnit and Eclipse

Filed in Links, Tutorials, October 7, 2004, 12:07 pm

Using JUnit With Eclipse IDE by Alexander Prohorenko and Olexiy Prohorenko — Test-driven development principles call for writing the tests before writing any code. Alexander and Olexiy Prohorenko demonstrate how this approach can be used with the JUnit testing tool and the Eclipse IDE.
This is a great article about how you can get JUnit up […]

Auto Updating Photo Album

Filed in Articles, Tutorials, August 17, 2004, 3:47 pm

Digital cameras are becoming more and more common. But creating new pages for every single picture that you take can be time consuming to say the least. Here’s how you can make a simple photo album that automatically scans and displays all of the pictures in a specified folder.
Note: The idea for this came from […]