13 April 2010 | General | RobbyVD
Google has released a new version of Google spreadsheets for testing.
It looks as if a number of MS Excel UI features have been introduced to make the UI faster to work with.
An overview of the new features can be found at: http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=174915
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02 December 2009 | General, Java | VitalyK
Jasper form has been introduced to add the facility of displaying jasper reports in our UI application.
net.pearlchain.prl.ui.jasperform.JasperForm is a subclass of be.retailability.util.springrich.form.GenericDetailForm and it has following parameters:
printService – This is reference to the print service where JasperPrint is created
reportFileLocation – This is the location of the compiled report at the server side. It defines relevant [...]
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02 December 2009 | General | RobbyVD
If you are writing a document in Google Docs, and you would like to have a “Pearlchain flavor” to your document, then you can use the CSS below to get numbered and orange headers.
Simply past the CSS below in via the Edit menu –> Edit CSS
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06 November 2009 | General, Uncategorized | JanM
We’re using cvsdude.com to host our source repositories. Using blame in a SVN client can be rather slow, because it has to transfer a lot of data. With limited internet access, it is more useful to download only the info we want to see. This is where the web-interface is very nice, as all of [...]
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13 October 2009 | General | RobbyVD
Google announced a few nice new features in Google Docs yesterday:
- shared folders
- multiple file upload
For the official statement you can have a look at the Google Blog: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009/10/shared-folders-and-more-in-google-docs.html
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12 October 2009 | General | JanC
As a follow-up to the previous post, I’ve discovered a plugin for Eclipse, called Rinzo XML Editor.
“Rinzo is an Eclipse xml editor with the goal of make life simpler when dealing with xml files.
It has several features regarding plain xml edition such as:
Autocompletion of tags and attributes, proposing the ones defined in the file’s DTD [...]
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01 October 2009 | General | RobbyVD
At the office, we have dedicated laptop that we use to demonstrate our software to prospects during the pre-sales stage. One of the problems we’ve encountered in the past with these demos is that database engine, app servers, etc require an IP address to be allocated to the machine.
When testing @the office this normally [...]
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21 September 2009 | General | JanC
One of the more annoying things you have to do as a developer is that you have to work with office tools every now and then and they have a default ‘Personalized Menus and Toolbars’ option.
What does this mean?
Whenever you look for a menu-item, it is sometimes ‘hidden’ unless you click on the arrow-marker on [...]
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18 September 2009 | General | RobbyVD
From now on, all publication of posts on this blog will automatically generate a tweet on http://twitter.com/PearlChain.
With thanks to the Wordpress plugin Twitter Tools!
Remark: the author can still choose to not publish a tweet by turning “Notify Twitter about this post? ” to “No” for his post.
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17 September 2009 | General, Hibernate, Java | StevenV
I’ve noticed that we are facing more and more performance issues in our application. At this moment there are two main culprits :
Too much data fetched
We’ve had some problems in the past that too much data was sent from server to client. When using@PropertyDescriptor in our application only the needed data is sent from server [...]
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