Archive for June, 2005

Being a fun dad

Sunday, June 5th, 2005

A two story polished metal slide
+ 26lb little boy
+ wax paper
= fun Saturday morning.
Being a dad is cool.

How to write a servlet filter

Sunday, June 5th, 2005

Found this article at sun about how to write a servlet filter. Looks like I’ll be coding a FOP filter soon.

Fun with xsl:fo and FOP

Saturday, June 4th, 2005

I’m happy playing around with new stuff. I’ve been fooling around with xsl:fo. Right now I have a sample app that takes some domain objects (POJOs) and creates a PDF report.
01 Create xml from domain objects
02 Transform xml into xsl:fo via some xslt
03 use FOP from Jakarta to create pdf from xsl:fo
Super fun!
Now […]

Resouce Navigation in RAD 6

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

At my new job I’m using IBM Rational Software Development 6.0 which is just eclipse with a bunch of plug-ins (nice ones too) added. But I was dismayed to find out that ctl-shift-R, one of my favorite shortcuts in eclipse, no longer opened the resource quick find dialog box. Today I discovered how […]