Today I noticed a cool feature of my new Nokia 6120 mobile phone. From it’s download menu I was able to download a presentation tool from Nokia that turns the phone into a remote control for my PC. I’ve been thinking about getting a separate presentation device as I do a fair share of presentations [...]

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Today I installed NetBeans 6.1 beta. I’ve always been a great fan of NetBeans and participated in the Community Acceptance Testing programme (NetCAT) for version 4.0 and 6.0. I haven’t had time to go through all the changes yet, but one thing caught my attention immediately, the “Shared Library” functionality. It has always amazed me [...]

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Rather than using includes when creating templates you can create your own custom facelet tags without the husle of creating a JSF component from scratch. As an example, I’ll create a menu tag that can be used to switch a selected menu item on and off. Here is the menu (save it as /WEB-INF/facelets/tags/menu.xhtml): <ui:composition [...]

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While the EJB 3.1 expert group is working on the improved timer service using annotations (See New Features in EJB 3.1) I thought that I’d just bring a small entry on using the timer service in EJB 3. The timer service works by telling the service when it should timeout (i.e. when shall the “alarm” [...]

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For a long time my old phone has been way past retirement. It was a Qtec 2020 (I believe). I’ve always loved smartphones and hated the glorified music players (e.g. Sony Ericsson). I don’t see the point in the fancy music player phones, but that is probably because I’m perfectly happy with my iPod and [...]

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I’ve finally ordered the certification books that I mentioned in a previous post (SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 Study Guide (Exam 310-055): Study Guide Exam 310-055 and Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for Java EE Study Guide (Exam 310-051): Study Guide Exam 310-051). It is my personal goal to have taken both certifications before [...]

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