Monthly Archives: June 2007

QT Jambi

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Zhou Renjian

I just tested QT Jambi. It is cool of QT widgets in Java. I like it. And it is very fast and the QT Designer is good but not as good as WindowBuilder Pro‘s SWT Designer, IMO. But there is … Continue reading →

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Failed to Download Files from FTP Servers

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Zhou Renjian

Today, I came across a problem: I could not download files given by “ftp://…”. I could ping that server, but could not link to it. I was using FlashGet and I tried to change some preferences but didn’t work. At … Continue reading →

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Why Java Web Start Sucks

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Zhou Renjian

Just have a long waiting time for downloading the *.jar files, and always it comes to a security dialog notifying that the *.jar file is not signed or not signed by known CA while it requires unlimited local access and … Continue reading →

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Subversive Sucks

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Zhou Renjian

There are many bugs in Subversive besides the known bug “Can not compare with old deleted repository resources“. And yesterday, one of my colleague used Subversive’s “Check out as” to a different location resulted in deleting all her one-week modifications. … Continue reading →

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Add Source Highlighting to WordPress Editor

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Zhou Renjian

If you are a technical geek, you may want to write some blog articles attaching some sources for discussion. And if you are using WordPress, you may find a lot of difficulties in struggling with WordPress’ messy TinyMCE editor in … Continue reading →

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Get Projects List in Eclipse Workbench

Posted on June 8, 2007 by Zhou Renjian

http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.newcomer/msg13300.html Add org.eclipse.core.resources in the Require-Bundle section in your plugin MANIFEST.MF file and invoke code: ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().getRoot().getProjects()

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Clean Eclipse Plugins’ Build Path Errors

Posted on June 7, 2007 by Zhou Renjian

Sometimes, Eclipse may have errors in calculating build paths, which may result in that some projects are marked as red cross error icons and further building is interrupted. The common error message for this would be “Project … is missing … Continue reading →

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Enablement Expression and Property Tester

Posted on June 7, 2007 by Zhou Renjian

Source: http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/wst/components/server/runOnServer.html Enablement Expression Performance Enablement expressions allow you to create arbitrarily complex expressions using ands, ors, nots, and Java code. For performance reasons, it’s always better to use the expression support instead of using Java code, which is slower … Continue reading →

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Pin Your Firefox Favorite Tabs

Posted on June 6, 2007 by Zhou Renjian

I always have many tabs (10+) open. I found that I was switching to some of tabs, like GMail, from time to time. In cases, I have to click tabs’ drop-down button on the upper right corner, and select them … Continue reading →

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Create a Process and Read Its Output

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Zhou Renjian

This is a snippet of windows C++ code to create a process and read its output until some specific string is printed. This is useful for programmer to start a server and only to return until the server is started, … Continue reading →

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