Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Adopting standards

Friday, March 17th, 2006

I’ve written a little post about the frustrations and things to looks out for when adopting a standard. I’m not going to mirror the whole article here so I’ll just give you a link to the post on my personal blog: The Horrors of Adopting Standards.

How to sign a Java Applet

Monday, February 20th, 2006

This is a tutorial on how to sign a Java Applet to allow it to bypass the security of the JVM. Here
Summary:
* To create a certificate:
keytool -genkey -alias myKeyAlias -keypass myKeypassword -keystore mykeystoreFileName.bin -storepass publicKeykeystorePassword
* To sign the applet (it has to be a .jar file):
jarsigner -keystore mykeystoreFileName.bin MyApplet.jar myKeyAlias
* To verify if the applet […]

Bloody MySQL

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

Well, some of you might know that we were planning on storing files in the database. I have been back and forwards with MySQL developerd for a cpl of months now with respect to an error I was having retrieving binary data from the database. All non text (as in writing) bytes would be […]

Trayconize me!

Friday, February 10th, 2006

Hey, for Thunrderbird users out there, here is a VERY good tool. I recently switched from Outlook to Thunderbird for my emails, and I find it enoying that TB can’t minimize to tray. Here is the solution.
Another good solution is this. You can actually minimize ANY program to the tray, making your taskbar much cleaner!!! […]

Coding to Saturday Morning Cartoons

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

This is the story of how I just found myself coding all the way until Saturday morning cartoons.
I had been lacking sleep for most of the week, and come Friday, I was simply dead. Regardless, I came back home, ate and sat in front of my computer, and started to follow the steps explained on […]