Category Archives: programming

Using Java’s HttpClient to send a PUT

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Joe

After a lot of searching the net, I wrote this method a few weeks back to write a string (or file) to a web server using Java’s HttpClient. It seemed ridiculous that I couldn’t find an example to cut and … Continue reading →

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UTF Character encoding in MySQL

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Joe

I’ve had on going issues with mySQL not defaulting to UTF8 and instead using Latin1 constantly. After searching around a bit on the mySQL forums, I seem to have found a series of settings that put a halt to the … Continue reading →

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Teamcity status macro for Trac

Posted on May 19, 2009 by Joe

I had a need to print the build status of our teamcity server in trac. After researching various solutions, I figured a trac macro would best fit. It was a surprisingly simple solution so I figured I would share it … Continue reading →

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XSL for Line breaking long words

Posted on November 3, 2008 by Joe

I spent a few hours searching for, but had no luck in finding this. So I’m posting what I wrote! This XSL will put a zero length space character into any word longer then 20 characters in any text node … Continue reading →

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Technology Makes the instrument

Posted on February 9, 2008 by Joe

The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface.

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.NET Domain Object validation through delegation

Posted on February 4, 2008 by Joe

Over the years I’ve seen a dozen different ways to validate domain objects in any MVC framework. Everyone has got their own favorite method. I’ve recently been presented with the same problem again and recalled a particularly elegant solution I … Continue reading →

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