Web 2.0 buttons generator
Web 2.0-styled buttons are quite popular these days. In fact, they look fine. Actually, I love them 
Today, I learned you don’t have to do it on your own with graphic software. I’ve found www.mycoolbutton.com – Web 2.0 buttons generator. It allows you to create a button in four steps:
- define the size
- define the color
- set up the icon
adminLaunchy
Have you ever lacked from run menu from KDE (Alt+F2) in your Windows? Try Launchy. It’s open source software that not only runs programs you have installed on your PC but also can launch your documents, project files, bookmarks etc.
I really recommend it! To learn more, see Launchy homepage.…
SQL: CONVERT to DATETIME
I’ve heard that SQL Server developers happen to have problems with CONVERT function when try to obtain a value of datetime type. Recently, I’ve had that problem during a Data Transformation Services (DTS) package implementation.
One of the task in that package was “Transform Data”, which transferred data between a source and destination. To retrieve that data, I used SQL …
Submission for ISWC ’07
Today we submitted yet another article; this time for The 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC ’07) that will take place in Busan, Korea, from November 11 to 15 (Thursday), 2007. I was the main author of the paper; i wrote it together with Sebastian R. Kruk, Tadhg Nagle, Edward Curry, and Adam Gzella. Its title is “IKHarvester – Informal …
Xobni
Xobni is declared to be a new look at your email. Even the neme is tightlt connected to email – “xobni” is the word “inbox” backwords 
All in all, Xobni is a plugin for Microsoft Outlook that comes along with Microsoft Office. According to the authors Xobni allows:
- fast email search
- extract phone numbers from emails
- fast access to email
Summary of our work in DERI
In less than two weeks I’m living DERI. I’m going back home in Poland. The plan is to defend my Master’s Thesis.
Before leaving, we (myself, Filip Czaja and Władysław Bultrowicz) are supposed to present the result of our work. We gave the presentation today.
First, Filip introduced ourselves and showed the context of our work:
Then there was my …
Head First Design Patterns
Another book I recommend reading: Head First Design Patterns.
I need to say I only managed to read it when I tried for the second time. First time I gave up after three or four chapters. Although I believed the provided definitions, examples, code snippets were good, I was fed up with all this Zen talks, interviews with design patterns, …
Media convertion
Many times it happened to me that I needed to convert a file from one format to another (text documents, images, movies, etc). It can be difficult and expensive to download different pieces of software that can do that.
Media Convert service comes with helping hand. Let me cite the authors:
…Media-Convert is 100% free. No software is needed, and
Unreachable catch block
Always contruct try-catch blocks in a way that assumes catching Exceptions from more detailed to more generic.
Example
try {
String [] tab = null;
System.out.println(tab[3]);
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Exception");
} catch (NullPointerException e) {
System.out.println("NullPointerException");
}
The above presented snippet will cause compilation error:
…Unreachable catch block for NullPointerException. It is already handled by the catch block
Sun Certified Java Programmer
Okay, I’ve been working with Java for a few years now, starting from academia and ending with business solutions. So yeah, I think I can say I know Java and some of those technologies like J2SE, J2EE or J2ME, with their own standards and solutions. Therefore, I’ve decided I’d take Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) in a few months.
If …