http://blog.teamsupergood.com The Best Software Engineering Team on the Web Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:27:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It’s done! Last week was the capstone project demonstrations. We’ve been so busy completing the project that we haven’t had enough opportunities to blog. We’re sorry! TeamSuperGood demonstrated all the great functionalities of Impresario. We kicked butt and we looked good doing it (in our team shirts)! We had lots of ... http://blog.teamsupergood.com/2006/04/13/project-demo/ 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 ... http://blog.teamsupergood.com/2006/04/08/xmlutil/ Okay, earlier this year I figured out that the reason for our binary data problems when retrieving stored files from the database was the use of PreparedStatement. Well, we don’t use it for files, however we do still use it in so many other plaves in our code. We kept ... http://blog.teamsupergood.com/2006/03/28/prepared-statements-again/ A few of the team ran down to grab some free food from Reggie’s today. And we bumped into two of our fans, Frank and My-An. It feels so nice to know people appreciate our work. Thank you. =) http://blog.teamsupergood.com/2006/03/17/weve-got-fans/ 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. http://blog.teamsupergood.com/2006/03/17/adopting-standards/ Use PeriodicalExecuter to execute a method every x seconds. http://blog.teamsupergood.com/2006/03/14/using-prototypejs-and-periodicalexecuter/ Ok, so I select the list of projects, then I select a specific project. Ok, so only one person is in that project, nice, I click on him and look at his list of projects. huh? They don’t match! So Soen390 has Ka Lun as a Manager, Ka Lun shows that he is ... http://blog.teamsupergood.com/2006/03/13/how-about-this-bug/ 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 * ... http://blog.teamsupergood.com/2006/02/20/how-to-sign-a-java-applet/ 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 ... http://blog.teamsupergood.com/2006/02/12/bloody-mysql/ 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! http://blog.teamsupergood.com/2006/02/11/tsg-impresario-logos-2/