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robin

who has written 22 posts for Robin's Tech Tips.

Sep
2
2009

Use Ant to Generate ChangeLogs From CVS ang Group by Date

Since version 1.6.1, Ant, the java build tool, has a core task called “cvschangelog“. It is quite useful to use this task to grab a list of recent changes committed to the CVS repository. The output of this task is in XML format. Something like the following:

<changelog>
<entry>
<date>2009-09-02</date>
<time>12:00</time>
<author>robin</author>
<file>
<name>test/ant/task/ChangeLog.txt</name>
<revision>1.2</revision>
<prevrevision>1.1</prevrevision>
[...]

Jul
23
2009

JSP Expression Language in GWT’s embedded Jetty

JSP expression language (EL) is quite handy. but it only works when you indicate your web application is using version 2.4 or higher. That means you have the following in your <Your-Web-App>/WEB-INF/web.xml:
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<web-app id=”WebApp_ID” version=”2.4″ xmlns=”http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” xsi:schemaLocation=”http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd”>

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a handy Ajax Web application development tool. Since version 1.6.4, GWT [...]

Apr
3
2009

List of Personal Finance Software / Websites for Money Management

It’s a good habit to keep an eye on your money and know how much you have spent in the past and how much you can spend in the future.
Although bank statements, credit card statement or online bank accounts provide all such information, these pieces of information scatter here and there and you lose track [...]

Mar
12
2009

Tips for installing Windows xp, vista and 7 without cd/dvd driver

Here i’ve gathered some links pointing to tips for installing windows xp, vista or 7 without cd/dvd driver (Imaging your laptop/notebook/netbook does not have an internal cd/dvd driver, and you don’t have an external one either.)
Windows xp
When windows xp came into market, the usb keys/external drivers are not as popular as they are now, nor [...]

Feb
4
2009

Encode/Decode HTML in Java

It is often necessary to escape the special html code from the user input in case of avoiding cross site attack (XSS).
Initially i thought jdk provides a method somewhere to do this like function htmlentities() in php, but i failed to find it. All i found is a class called “URLEncoder ” which i [...]