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Motio Inc. gone virtual
Willy B's Blog | General | Apr 21, 2008 10:18:15 AM | By wbalderamos
I found a new stock market today called Thotmarket. Immediately I put Motio Inc. up and started trading . The website...
Willy B's Blog | General | Apr 21, 2008 10:18:15 AM | By wbalderamos
I found a new stock market today called Thotmarket. Immediately I put Motio Inc. up and started trading . The website...
So we changed our name....
Willy B's Blog | General | Mar 31, 2008 1:44:13 PM | By wbalderamos
FocusCI is now MotioCI. Here is the official page that describes whats going on. We changed our company name also so w...
Willy B's Blog | General | Mar 31, 2008 1:44:13 PM | By wbalderamos
FocusCI is now MotioCI. Here is the official page that describes whats going on. We changed our company name also so w...
Song of the Day!
Willy B's Blog | General | Jan 31, 2008 3:27:31 PM | By wbalderamos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kthwkH7k-0 Rock Steady - Alton Ellis and the Flames - Crazy times and an amazing s...
Willy B's Blog | General | Jan 31, 2008 3:27:31 PM | By wbalderamos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kthwkH7k-0 Rock Steady - Alton Ellis and the Flames - Crazy times and an amazing s...
It's been a while...
Willy B's Blog | General | Jan 3, 2008 1:45:55 PM | By wbalderamos
It's been a while since I have posted to this blog. The events of recent have been taking up a lot of my time. FocusCI...
Willy B's Blog | General | Jan 3, 2008 1:45:55 PM | By wbalderamos
It's been a while since I have posted to this blog. The events of recent have been taking up a lot of my time. FocusCI...
My New Database Schema Comparator
Willy B's Blog | General | Aug 30, 2007 3:45:33 PM | By wbalderamos
Usually when performing an upgrade on FocusCI's database schema, I have the problem of figuring out how to check for any...
Willy B's Blog | General | Aug 30, 2007 3:45:33 PM | By wbalderamos
Usually when performing an upgrade on FocusCI's database schema, I have the problem of figuring out how to check for any...
Voice Dialogues for Regression Testing
Willy B's Blog | General | Aug 27, 2007 1:53:50 PM | By wbalderamos
I had this crazy thought today. Imagine your at your desk working towards your next presentation of a company's monthly ...
Willy B's Blog | General | Aug 27, 2007 1:53:50 PM | By wbalderamos
I had this crazy thought today. Imagine your at your desk working towards your next presentation of a company's monthly ...
Cool JS Scroll Effect
Willy B's Blog | General | May 22, 2007 10:52:00 AM | By wbalderamos
http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/smoothscroll/ Seems like a nice tool for documents written to fit on a long html p...
Willy B's Blog | General | May 22, 2007 10:52:00 AM | By wbalderamos
http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/smoothscroll/ Seems like a nice tool for documents written to fit on a long html p...
Refreshing Reggae
Willy B's Blog | General | Apr 2, 2007 5:09:19 PM | By wbalderamos
So for some reason its been a while since I have heard reggae melodies streaming from the box and so I picked up a coupl...
Willy B's Blog | General | Apr 2, 2007 5:09:19 PM | By wbalderamos
So for some reason its been a while since I have heard reggae melodies streaming from the box and so I picked up a coupl...
Funny Quote
Willy B's Blog | Politics | Mar 29, 2007 5:51:42 PM | By wbalderamos
So daily I have been reading the New York Times via RSS feeds and today I found this gem of a quote which I think most b...
Willy B's Blog | Politics | Mar 29, 2007 5:51:42 PM | By wbalderamos
So daily I have been reading the New York Times via RSS feeds and today I found this gem of a quote which I think most b...
Access Denied? Not really
Willy B's Blog | Programming | Mar 23, 2007 3:21:18 PM | By wbalderamos
Have you ever gotten a nasty windows message saying, "Cannot delete file: Access is denied!" Well I did today ...
Willy B's Blog | Programming | Mar 23, 2007 3:21:18 PM | By wbalderamos
Have you ever gotten a nasty windows message saying, "Cannot delete file: Access is denied!" Well I did today ...
Ant with NSIS
Willy B's Blog | Programming | Mar 16, 2007 4:04:57 PM | By wbalderamos
I found that the ant task exec can be quite useful to distribute executables. The code snippet is below: ...
Willy B's Blog | Programming | Mar 16, 2007 4:04:57 PM | By wbalderamos
I found that the ant task exec can be quite useful to distribute executables. The code snippet is below: ...
Help with Help
Willy B's Blog | Programming | Feb 7, 2007 1:37:53 PM | By wbalderamos
While surfing the Internet and looking for cool software I stumbled across a documentation system used by Nullsoft in th...
Willy B's Blog | Programming | Feb 7, 2007 1:37:53 PM | By wbalderamos
While surfing the Internet and looking for cool software I stumbled across a documentation system used by Nullsoft in th...
Hope
Willy B's Blog | General | Dec 22, 2006 3:48:30 PM | By wbalderamos
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all,...
Willy B's Blog | General | Dec 22, 2006 3:48:30 PM | By wbalderamos
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all,...
Dust in the Eyes
Willy B's Blog | General | Dec 6, 2006 5:41:43 PM | By wbalderamos
Dust in the Eyes If, as they say, some dust thrown in my eyes Will keep my talk from getting overwise, I'm not the one f...
Willy B's Blog | General | Dec 6, 2006 5:41:43 PM | By wbalderamos
Dust in the Eyes If, as they say, some dust thrown in my eyes Will keep my talk from getting overwise, I'm not the one f...
Oracle: Difference between two Timestamps, in seconds...
Caffeine Induced | General | Nov 21, 2006 12:10:44 AM | By lhankins
In oracle, if you subtract two timestamps, the result is of type "interval". Its somewhat cumbersome to get ...
Caffeine Induced | General | Nov 21, 2006 12:10:44 AM | By lhankins
In oracle, if you subtract two timestamps, the result is of type "interval". Its somewhat cumbersome to get ...
Rebuilding our Server...
Caffeine Induced | General | Feb 24, 2006 1:27:20 PM | By lhankins
We had a hard drive crash recently and have now rebuilt our blog server. We also took the opportunity to upgrade to th...
Caffeine Induced | General | Feb 24, 2006 1:27:20 PM | By lhankins
We had a hard drive crash recently and have now rebuilt our blog server. We also took the opportunity to upgrade to th...
Tip: "right-click on file and send-to cygwin tail"
Caffeine Induced | General | Dec 22, 2005 12:00:01 PM | By lhankins
During a typical "development" day, there are many times when I want to "start a tail" on some arbit...
Caffeine Induced | General | Dec 22, 2005 12:00:01 PM | By lhankins
During a typical "development" day, there are many times when I want to "start a tail" on some arbit...
Easy way to test your equals() and hashcode() from Junit...
Caffeine Induced | Java | Aug 24, 2005 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
If you've been doing Java long enough, chances are you've been bitten by an incorrectly written equals() method. He...
Caffeine Induced | Java | Aug 24, 2005 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
If you've been doing Java long enough, chances are you've been bitten by an incorrectly written equals() method. He...
On the improved JS Support in IDEA 5.0...
Caffeine Induced | Java | Aug 13, 2005 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
I got <really> excited when I found out that Intellij was adding support for JavaScript and CSS to IDEA 5.0. I w...
Caffeine Induced | Java | Aug 13, 2005 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
I got <really> excited when I found out that Intellij was adding support for JavaScript and CSS to IDEA 5.0. I w...
More Readable Classpaths for Ant Builds...
Caffeine Induced | Java | Jul 30, 2005 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
Its always a bit painful when you hit the inevitable ClassNotFound exception during development and you end up double ...
Caffeine Induced | Java | Jul 30, 2005 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
Its always a bit painful when you hit the inevitable ClassNotFound exception during development and you end up double ...
Yahoo Desktop Search - Better than Google Desktop Search...
Caffeine Induced | General | Jul 10, 2005 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
I recently switched to Yahoo Desktop Search. I find it superior to Google Desktop Search (which I had been using for 4...
Caffeine Induced | General | Jul 10, 2005 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
I recently switched to Yahoo Desktop Search. I find it superior to Google Desktop Search (which I had been using for 4...
Subtle Difference Between JavaScript Evaluation in IE vs. Firefox...
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Caffeine Induced | Java | Jul 4, 2005 6:00:17 AM | By lhankins
I came across an annoying difference between the way IE and Firefox interpret JavaScript array lengths. Consider the fo...
Caffeine Induced | Java | Jul 4, 2005 6:00:17 AM | By lhankins
I came across an annoying difference between the way IE and Firefox interpret JavaScript array lengths. Consider the fo...
Great RegEx Test Utility...
Caffeine Induced | General | Feb 20, 2005 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
Nithy recently pointed me at a great interactive tool for testing and debugging Regular Expressions. Its called &quo...
Caffeine Induced | General | Feb 20, 2005 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
Nithy recently pointed me at a great interactive tool for testing and debugging Regular Expressions. Its called &quo...
Intellij IDEA - xml - dtd
| General | Jan 4, 2005 7:18:13 PM | By nithy
In IntelliJ IDEA when you open those xml config files (struts, hibernate,...) you see the dtd reference in red color. ...
| General | Jan 4, 2005 7:18:13 PM | By nithy
In IntelliJ IDEA when you open those xml config files (struts, hibernate,...) you see the dtd reference in red color. ...
"Simplicity is Complexity Resolved..."
Caffeine Induced | General | Sep 27, 2004 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
A few weekends ago, I had the chance to visit the Nasher Sculpture Center here in Dallas. Like many museums, they giv...
Caffeine Induced | General | Sep 27, 2004 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
A few weekends ago, I had the chance to visit the Nasher Sculpture Center here in Dallas. Like many museums, they giv...
spaces in env variables on AIX
| General | Aug 31, 2004 9:17:30 PM | By nithy
I was tring to execute a java process via a script and want to pass some variables, which has spaces. I found a work a...
| General | Aug 31, 2004 9:17:30 PM | By nithy
I was tring to execute a java process via a script and want to pass some variables, which has spaces. I found a work a...
Trying to use textarea for displaying xml text in a blog entry
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| General | Apr 8, 2004 8:29:48 PM | By nithy
Sample xml using textarea:
| General | Apr 8, 2004 8:29:48 PM | By nithy
Sample xml using textarea:
Tip to speed up the jsp compilation process with weblogic
| General | Apr 7, 2004 11:57:12 AM | By nithy
This works with weblogic 6.1, not tested on later versions. If you are using ant to compile your jsps with weblogic...
| General | Apr 7, 2004 11:57:12 AM | By nithy
This works with weblogic 6.1, not tested on later versions. If you are using ant to compile your jsps with weblogic...
Diffing two files in IDEA...
Caffeine Induced | Java | Mar 10, 2004 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
IDEA has an excellent diff facility, complete with syntax highlighting and merging capability. I often use this for co...
Caffeine Induced | Java | Mar 10, 2004 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
IDEA has an excellent diff facility, complete with syntax highlighting and merging capability. I often use this for co...
An Ant Target that every project should have...
Caffeine Induced | Java | Feb 1, 2004 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
An ant target that every project should define is one which allows you to backup your source code (without neccessaril...
Caffeine Induced | Java | Feb 1, 2004 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
An ant target that every project should define is one which allows you to backup your source code (without neccessaril...
Useful Webpage Debugging Tools...
Caffeine Induced | Java | Jan 31, 2004 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
I stumbled across these bookmarklets over on the CSS Discuss Wiki . They are a collection JavaScript utility functio...
Caffeine Induced | Java | Jan 31, 2004 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
I stumbled across these bookmarklets over on the CSS Discuss Wiki . They are a collection JavaScript utility functio...
Using the entity includes in xml
| General | Jan 28, 2004 7:11:07 PM | By nithy
Ant supports an import tag for including another xml file as Lance explained , which is very nice. But with cruis...
| General | Jan 28, 2004 7:11:07 PM | By nithy
Ant supports an import tag for including another xml file as Lance explained , which is very nice. But with cruis...
Ant 1.6 import tag (#include one ant file into another)...
Caffeine Induced | Java | Jan 26, 2004 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
Ant 1.6 has a new <import> tag which allows you to "#include" one ant file into another. There was a k...
Caffeine Induced | Java | Jan 26, 2004 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
Ant 1.6 has a new <import> tag which allows you to "#include" one ant file into another. There was a k...
Virtual Keyboard
| General | Jan 4, 2004 3:12:58 PM | By nithy
"The VKB attaches to handhelds and projects the image of a full-size keyboard onto the surface of the desk where t...
| General | Jan 4, 2004 3:12:58 PM | By nithy
"The VKB attaches to handhelds and projects the image of a full-size keyboard onto the surface of the desk where t...
Xerces DOM implementation is not thread safe for read only
| Java | Dec 22, 2003 7:57:39 AM | By nithy
Couple of months back I wrote a test driver, which was using a single instance of DOM document and the test was reading ...
| Java | Dec 22, 2003 7:57:39 AM | By nithy
Couple of months back I wrote a test driver, which was using a single instance of DOM document and the test was reading ...
Automated nightly defrags on Windows XP...
Caffeine Induced | General | Jun 25, 2003 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
On my machine I have two partitions : C & D. The C partition has the OS, all Programs like Office, IDEA, Oracle, e...
Caffeine Induced | General | Jun 25, 2003 12:00:00 AM | By lhankins
On my machine I have two partitions : C & D. The C partition has the OS, all Programs like Office, IDEA, Oracle, e...
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