LastGraph – visualize your music profile
Recently, I’ve told you about my excitement about last.fm. Slightly later I’ve discovered an interesting service related to last.fm: LastGraph. What it really does? Its auhor, Andrew Godwin says: LastGraph is a web application that makes graphs of your musical listening history from your Last.fm profile. In other words, LastGraph creates a special graph that…
adminFCKEditor – how to access the HTML content from JavaScript?
Imagine you have a form in which you use FCKEditor as an inline HTML editor. So, inside script tag you have this: var oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor(‘body_html’); oFCKeditor.BasePath = “A_PATH_TO_FCKEDITOR”; oFCKeditor.ToolbarSet = “Basic”; oFCKeditor.Create(); As you know, this creates a textarea with id set to ‘body_html’ and make it look like an inline HTML editor….
Security in accessing reports on Report Server
Once you deploy reports on to Report Server they can be accessed from any Web application with an established URL. However, I see a scenario when one wants to prevent some users from accessing reports (e.g. a user should be able to view reports presenting only their personal information). The way around this is to…
How to manage trunk/branches/tags in the project while bug fixing and regular development?
Recently I’ve come across some problems on managing trunk/branches/tags. As a result of manual merging two branches I’ve ended up with hours spent on editing conflicts and checking the system. It’s obvious this was not a good sign as new bugs might have been introduced. I’ve decided to organise the way the revision control system…
Generics
Mixing generics with legacy code The above code won’t compile since all instances of a generic class have the same runtime class, regardless of their actual type parameters. Instead, you should do as below: This is also worth a look: Polymorphism and generic methods It’s the same with methods: The above method only accepts List<Superclass>,…
Listen what you really want!
I used to listen to Pandora, but that has been impossible for some time because it’s been suspended in Poland (and some other countries). Let me quote Pandora’s authors: We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for most listeners located outside of…
Reporting Services – “Your browser does not support scripts or has been configured not to allow scripts.”
When I run a report in the Report Manager using Internet Explorer (I had this issue on IE7) I got the following error: Your browser does not support scripts or has been configured not to allow scripts. Solution Should you get it as well follow the instruction below: go to (from its menu) Tools/Internet Options…
Java: == might work the same as equals()
It’s a rule that == is used to compare references, not values. To compare values for equality equals() method should be used. However, as of Java 5, you can also use == to check if two objects’ values are the same… But it works only for the following wrapper objects, if their primitive counterparts’ values…
Gmail as POP3 client
I’ve been using Google for ages, it was mostly the Google Search though… I’ve been using external software for mail management, having unorganized RSS, e.g. Untill August… Then I started working for Kainos. The Systems folks announced it was impossible to use external software for private mail – security, viruses, POP3 blocked, bla bla blah……
MFC: CButton and how ON_BN_DOUBLECLICKED message map works
Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) library provides CButton which, according to MSDN, can be used for creating a check box, a radio button, and a pushbutton. There are two events CButton supports: (i) ON_BN_CLICKED (single click), (ii) ON_BN_DOUBLECLICKED (double click). Let’s assume you provide a meaningful implementation for a single click and do nothing in the…
Formatting output
Usually to print some ouptut you’d use System.out.printl() or System.out.println() method. It’s easy to use but you can face some difficulties in providing output formatted in a specific way. To format output you can use either of the following methods (they work the same) System.out.format(String format, Object… args) System.out.format(Locale l, String format, Object… args) System.out.printf(String…
Reporting Services – blank Report Manager screen
I believe Reporting Services are very powerful tool for report generation. Unfortunately the installation process can be time consuming as you might face some problems with the cofiguration… Of course such problems can be the reason of unsufficient knowledge in SQL Server configuration and management, etc. Anyway, blank Report Manager screen can be one of…