Month: March 2008
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Lost Time and My Schedule
Firstly, I really missed that hour of lost sleep last night. Daylight Saving Time seems like a great idea in the Fall, but man does it come back to haunt you. So early to bed for me tonight. Secondly, after reading this post by Tim Ferriss: 24 Hours with Tim Ferriss, a Sample Schedule, I…
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login-required=”true” Will End Your Conversation
In Seam, in the pages.xml or mypage.page.xml files, you note that a given page requires the user to be logged in to view the page. It is a very easy way of handling simple security. What happens is if a user attempts to access a page with the login-required=”true” attribute and they are not logged…
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Oracle Export (exp) and Initial Extent Size Issues
If you have a large database in Oracle, with a tablespace with say 2 gigabytes worth of data in it, and you then go in a delete a large number of rows from a large number of tables, and shrink it down to about 300 megabytes worth of data, and then you create an Oracle…
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An Easy Way to Drop All Tables in Your Tablespace in Oracle
If you need to drop all tables in the database with Oracle, here’s an easy way! run this command: select ‘drop table ‘, table_name, ‘cascade constraints;’ from user_tables; Then copy the output and run that as a sql script.
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How To Resize Uploaded Images Using Java
Edit: please read the better way here: Better way to Resize Images Using Java! ———————– I am building a Seam application which need to support users uploading images, and then the site displaying them. I wanted to resize big images into something reasonable (say 1024 or 800 px wide) and generate a thumbnail, and I…
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Displaying and Rerendering a RichFaces ModalPanel from a commandLink
Let’s say that when a user clicks on something, perhaps selecting something from a DataTable or DataGrid, you want to call some server side code, and then popup a modal panel which needs to show content based on the new state setup by your server side call. In my case I have a DataGrid showing…