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XMLUtil

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

During the development of Impresario, we’ve built many many utilities to help us. One of the utility was the XMLUtil. The javax’s XML tutorial isn’t too helpful. We went through many hours of research and finally compiled a set of functions that allows us to convert strings to Documents, convert Documents to File, validate documents, […]

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 […]

TSG + Impresario Logos!

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

I made a logo from Nadia’s awesome little sketch. Let me know what you think and how I could make them even better!
Eric, notice the red. I think its an awesome color… much more punch then the blue I had going on before!

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!!! […]

I changed the theme, don’t shoot!

Monday, February 6th, 2006

I couldn’t take those scary/ugly rotating pictures. So I changed the theme from Falling Dreams to Sapphire. I understand that the point of that theme was to customize the pictures to our own TSG ones, but until someone does that (and I don’t think it will be too soon) I just can’t look at them […]