Author Archives: Jay

Olbermann smacks back at O’Reilly

If you know who Bill O’Reilly is, and you don’t hate freedom, this is funny.

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Tic Tac Toe

I’ve been working on a simple Tic Tac Toe game. Most things going well, but I’ve been working on the painting of the X’s and O’s within the insets of a given JButton. In the end, the calculation that actually … Continue reading

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Apprentice

I’ve seen a few posts saying either that Donald Trump choose the wrong apprentice. These posts have a hint of something other than logic and reason. If you just went off of productivity, he was the better choice. Let’s take … Continue reading

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WebWork-2.2 and Generics

I’m working on a settings screen (using JSP) which iterates over a Map of generic SettingEntries. A SettingEntry is defined as follows: public class SettingEntry <T> implements Serializable { private final String key; private final T defaultValue; private T value; … Continue reading

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Context-sensitive menu using WebWork

Looking to build a generic context-sensitive menu using WebWork. Came up with the following requirements: All items described below are menu elements. A menu element has a name attribute. A menu element has a parent menu element. If a menu … Continue reading

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Good FEMA.

Yeah, so if you’ve been the news, you know that the government officials charged with mitigating the loss of life didn’t do the best job they could have. OK, fine. Now, when I say government officials, I am referring to … Continue reading

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DBDesigner 4

Ok, so I’m starting the domain design section of a project. I usually get the generic attributes and relationships down, and start a real simple domain model using Access. Then import that into Visio. Once in Visio I get a … Continue reading

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I love Luxsana

So I decided to purchase a portable infared suana, the LX-001. It’s hot (pun intended). So, an artistic co-worker, Anthony draws me in the sauna. It’s pretty funny. Oh, ignore the person in the sauna, I’m actually tall and slender, … Continue reading

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Which OS are you?

Which OS are You? The only thing it got right was about my cousin Wince…

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I think Open Source is good, and technology helps makes life easier.

If your interested, no, I could not think of a better title. Since the late summer of 2003, I’ve been working on a side project. It wasn’t much, simply an apartment rental application. The main features were: Allow a renter/seeker … Continue reading

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