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Converting Opera contacts file

paalg — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:49:04 +0000

After using Operas mail client since 2003, I have become tired of the mess in the configuration files during the many upgrades between the versions. I have spent many hours trying to figure out things, but you need to be an expert to sort it out. The mail is stored in *.mbs files, right now [...]

ADOdb and XML schemas (AXMLS)

paalg — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:18:37 +0000

A good number of applications use database abstraction layer, so that by using one interface (abstraction layer) in the application, the user can choose his favourite database to store the data. One good choice as database abstraction layer is ADOdb for PHP for web applications. The reason I had to work with ADOdb the first [...]

MySQL fulltext search example

paalg — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:54:50 +0000

At my work I was set to the task of making a search page for an PHP application we have made. The search page was to search text fields in a table in an MySQL database and return results. After some time researching and testing I found that the fulltext indexing of fields in tables [...]

Simple CellEditorListener example in Java

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:26:22 +0000

This is an easy example on how to detect changes to data in a JTable. The example will run by itself. Just copy the code to a file and name it CellEditorListenerExample and it is ready to be compiled and run.

import java.awt.BorderLayout; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JScrollPane; import javax.swing.JTable; import javax.swing.event.CellEditorListener; import javax.swing.event.ChangeEvent; /** * [...]

Simple JFrame and JTable example in Java

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:14:59 +0000

This is a very simple example on how to show a javax.swing.JFrame (JFrame) with a javax.swing.JTable (JTable) on. The example will run by itself. Just copy the code to a file and name it JFrameExample.java and it is ready to be compiled and run.

import java.awt.BorderLayout; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JScrollPane; import javax.swing.JTable; /** * Simple [...]

Converting ANSEL character set to Unicode

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:45:37 +0000

I have been working with genealogy since I was 14 years old. Being an software developer I recently started making some software that supports the standard format for genealogy data exchange, GEDCOM. The most common character encoding for these files are something called ANSEL (American National Standard Extended Latin), and is also known as ANSI/NISO [...]

Simple timer example in Java

admin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:57:33 +0000

This Java code illustrates the use of two timers running at the same time using java.util.Timer and java.util.TimerTask.

TimerExample.java starting two timers:

import java.util.Timer; /** * An example on multiple timers. * * @author http://www.gammelsaeter.com/ */ public class TimerExample { public static void main(String[] args) { Timer timer1 = new Timer(); [...]

Simple appending logfile in Java

admin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:41:14 +0000

This blog was made to dump valuable information as articles and simple examples. In this spirit I post my first post.

This is a simple example of how to make a logfile with strings appended to the end.

import java.io.BufferedWriter; import java.io.FileWriter; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.Date; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; /** * Simple logger that [...]