I’m writing a GWT app with an OpenLayers map in it, and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get the map to open full-screen.
Another day, another chance to be a complete computard. Following on from my previous Java test, a friend gave me a similar challenge. How would you implement the following method?
My Canon Pixma iP4500 can print directly onto printable CD/DVDs, and came bundled with CD-LabelPrint for me to setup my CD labels. Unfortunately, there’s a bug in CD-LabelPrint that doesn’t allow you print right up to the inner circle of the CD/DVD. Fortunately, there’s filthy hack that allows you to print over the entire surface of the disc after all…
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I wrote about 90% of this post over four months ago, before I switched to wordpress.com. It seems a bit of a shame to just throw it all away, so here it is in all its glory…
So here’s the short story – I want to use allow readers of this blog to use their Twitter credentials to log in and leave comments.
Every time I log into Google Mail, they promise me less spam. The thing is, I’m not sure if I want them to.
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I recently came across a few little SCJP-style Java tests. There’s nothing particularly special about them, but they got me thinking about some aspects of the language that I hadn’t really thought about before. Here’s the first; I wonder what you’ll make of it…
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In general, I always try to favour Apple over !Apple. As such, there aren’t many non-Apple applications installed on my macbook; Firefox, Eclipse and Picasa being the main three. I’d like to use Safari, if only I could get it to favour opening links to new pages in tabs, and not in windows. Well, it turns out that I can.
I wonder how much ink they save by leaving out their apostrophes?
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I thought that it was about time that I set up my java dev environment on my macbook. Sure, I could keep coding on my desktop, but why do that when I can spend my whole life chained to the source code? Here’s a list of anything out-of-the-ordinary that I found whilst setting up my latest project…
