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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Connect to the internet via Bluetooth PAN with Mac OS X Snow Leopard

January 27, 2010 – 1:54 pm

If you want to access the internet via your phone 3G/GPRS connection you can use Bluetooth PAN. In my case I have a Sony Ericsson W715 so the first thing to do is to tell the phone which connection to use Menu > Settings > Connectivity > Bluetooth > Data accounts and select the account [...]

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Cancellable tasks and progress indicators [Netbeans Platform]

January 18, 2010 – 10:52 pm

Progress indicator (indeterminate mode) which allows to cancel the task The easiest way of having a cancellable progress indicator (Progress API) for a task in Netbeans Platform Application is the one below but it´s only worth for tasks that don’t update the progress indicator (indeterminate mode) until the task is finished. If you want to [...]

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OpenJPA, HSQLDB and proper shutdown

January 14, 2010 – 8:28 pm

I’m starting to get tired of OpenJPA/HSQLDB setup that I’ve trying: it seems to give more problems than it solves. Now I discovered that the HSQL db wasn’t been properly shutdown and for reasons that I’m investigating, if the HSQL db is not propertly closed (SHUTDOWN command) it’s impossible to reopen it again. It fails [...]

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JTable bound to a database with lazy loading

January 13, 2010 – 8:10 pm

I’ve been doing experiments with JTables bound to database tables in the past. But I was not satisfied with the result to be honest. The pagination helps but there is still noticeable pauses each time a database query has to be issued. So I started looking into other possibilities. I come up with the idea [...]

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Migrating from Blinklist to Delicious.com: CSV to HTML

January 3, 2010 – 3:19 pm

Apparently blinklist doesn’t export bookmarks to JSON format any longer and delicious has changed authentication scheme for its delicious API for new accounts (now it forces new users to use the OAuth / Yahoo ID). So the solutions described in this old post of mine doesn’t work. So given the current state of affairs the [...]

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