Interesting stuff I’ve run across on the web.
CSSToXSLFO I’m producing some XHTML documents from some XML, and I want to print them all. There doesn’t seem to be a good, free “Batch HTML Print” option around. There are a few HTML to PDF converters, but they all have limitations. I’m hoping this plus FOP to PDF (tags: html pdf css fop xsl-fo … [Read more…]
Behaviour : Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours Seems to me this is the way to go. Replace all those onXxxx and scrip tags with a single script tag and a “behavior style sheet”. (tags: javascript css html development) PmWiki | Cookbook / ShowHide I want to “show” all the initially hidden elements when … [Read more…]
Google Research Publication: Chubby Distributed Lock Service I’ve got to coordinate activities between a group of nodes, and not looking forward to implementing my own mini-distributed locking setup. But this looks complex and I don’t see a link to source… (tags: distributed locking programming software) DistributedLockServer – Lucene-hadoop Wiki Another possible locking implementation… but it … [Read more…]
Really Slick Screensavers (OpenGL) Some great 3D screensavers. I especially like the “lattice” one with the “Tasty” preset. (tags: windows screensavers graphics software)
Open Source PDF Libraries in Java Just created a simple PDF parser for a file that the vendor is creating only in PDF. I can now insert the data into a database table! Yay! (tags: api development java library opensource pdf programming software)
Java Web Hosting, J2EE, JSP, Tomcat, JBoss – Our Hosting Services I looked into creating a Java hosting setup, and it was very difficult… I wonder how these guys do it? (tags: java hosting webhosting jsp internet)
Orbeon Forms Example Applications – XSLT Sandbox A useful way to play with XSLT transforms. I wish the error messages were clearer… (tags: xslt xml programming)
BadgerFish Was the DOM API ever an answer to the question of how to represent an XML document in any particular language…? (tags: json xml javascript programming ajax)
spamgourmet – free disposable email addresses, spam blocker Looks useful. Throwaway email addresses for giving to web sites and such. (tags: spam email anonymity)
OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum Yow. Blast from the past. I’m working on a “all the computers I’ve ever used” blog posting. (tags: history computer hardware retro)