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I got a couple of comments on my last post titled ORA-12519, TNS:no appropriate service handler found, with people getting surprised that a self defining “proven industry database” can have such kind of bugs. It’s a long time that I don’t think Oracle is such that great product – actually I think the opposite – [...]

I’ve made some refactoring to make JRainbow support several languages. The result is that now JRainbow supports XML coloring. To learn more about JRainbow source code colorer, check the JRainbow Project Website. Here you can try it right now: XML sintax coloring is almost complete, just need some improvement to support inline DTDs.

I used to hate Oracle Database (and other Oracle products too) because of it is much more complicated / heavyweight / slow / buggy and full of useless and sometime harmful stuff than needed. Also when you install you can’t remove it without leaving tons of zombie files around, breaking your JVM/Apache/Windows/etc. After an Oracle [...]

In my swing application the requirement was that the user had to be able to issue an action, from a menu or from a button, that generates a letter from a defined msword template filled with data load from the database. Then the application should launch msword to make a preview that the user can [...]

I needed a tool to convert Java source code to a nicely printed HTML for this blog. I already knew about Java2Html, that does a great job, but I wanted a clever html and nicer row numbers. Looking inside it, I found that the code for parsing could be simplified, and generated html could be [...]

What’s the difference between a library and a framework? Do you have an answer? In one of the latest meet of the JUG Torino I heared a nice aswer from Simon: Libraries are a software called by you; the framework is that software that calls you. Neat! Also we can say that you write code [...]

I just discovered a nice wysiwyg blogpost writer: Windows Live Writer. It’s made by Microsoft, it’s still in beta (!), it’s free (!!), but it works pretty good (!!!). Read more about authors on Wikipedia. Here’s a screenshot:   Check it out; it could save you some time. The Web Preview feature is wonderful: you can see a [...]

Are you tired to install applications that weaken stability of your OS? Or you just want to bring in a USB Pen Drive all your desktop applications to run them at work, at home and everywhere? The solution for both problems is “portable apps”. A “portable app” is an application that does not need to [...]

Since some days I am using a nice utility, Unlocker, that helps to find program that, while running, prevent you to get write access to some files. The only strange thing is that on every run it tries to access the network (update check or spyware?). Anyway, I just blocked it on my personal firewall, [...]

A funny news on Microsoft site about Javaprxy.dll (a Microsoft JVM component):A COM Object (Javaprxy.dll) Could Cause Internet Explorer to Unexpectedly Exit. A way to scare people about Java? “Microsoft will take the appropriate action to help protect our customers” Are they thinking about closing development on Internet Explorer and Outlook? :-)