Generating a database dump SQL Script from Java
The aim of this project is to generate an SQL script from an existing database such that the tables and data can be recreated exactly as it was. There are lots of reasons for having such a tool, for...
View ArticleUsing the Free Borland C++ compiler
If you have access to Visual C++, then compiling C++ to produce an EXE or a DLL isn’t particularly hard. If not, then you either have to use gcc or there is an excellent free C++ compiler provided by...
View ArticleAccessing Microsoft’s ADSI–part 1
The overall aim of this project was to be able to get the groups that an NT user belongs to using ADSI (Active Directory Services Interface) and make this available in Java. This first article...
View ArticleAccessing ADSI from Java
The aim of this project was to be able to get the groups that an NT user belongs to using ADSI (Active Directory Services Interface) and make this available in Java. In the first article we described...
View ArticleJavascript Debug Utility
Note: See the May 2008 update at the bottom of this article. One of the problems when writing JavaScript is that you don’t have a development environment with a debugger to find out what’s going on....
View ArticleWhich jar contains my…
Have you ever had the problem where there’s a class missing and you’ve no idea which jar it might be in? Or been running a Java program and wondered why the implementation of a class doesn’t seem to...
View ArticleLocalisation in Java
We’ve recently had a problem where we wanted to produce a website in multiple languages including Russian, Czech, Romanian, and other eastern European languages. No problems, we thought, we can just...
View ArticleDragging and dropping table rows in Javascript
Summary: This article tells you how to implement drag and drop for HTML tables in Javascript. You can download the source here and play with the demo here. Updated: now copes with multiple tables on...
View ArticleGroovy, DSLs and Rules engines
This article describes how we used Groovy to create a DSL for the clauses in a rules engine. We have been collaborating in the development of an “expert system” application for KnowledgeBench Ltd. This...
View ArticleTable Drag and Drop JQuery plugin
I’ve been using JQuery for a while now and really agree with its tag line that it’s the “The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library”. We’ve also got this code for dragging and dropping table rows that...
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