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One of my first posts was a comparison of HTML parsers. Today I found a particularly challenging document to parse. None of the parsers I had compared earlier were able to handle the malformed HTML in this table where the td elements were prematurely ended. The behavior of Neko and HtmlCleaner made the most sense Read More
A client sent me some code today to update. He was using the NetBeans, so I downloaded the IDE and fired it up to open the project he’d sent me. Unfortunately, the project wouldn’t compile because he’d written the code in Java 6 while NetBeans was using Java 5. I couldn’t find a NetBeans menu Read More
I have created an .htaccess file to do URL rewriting for every site I’ve ever created. If you’re not familiar with URL rewriting, it is used to modify a URL or redirect the user before the requested resource is fetched. One of its major uses is to make URLs human readable. That means your users Read More
If you’ve used Java 1.5 Generics much then you’re probably familiar with the following compile warning: “Type safety: The expression of type List needs unchecked conversion to conform to List<String>” or similar. It turns out there’s a rather simple solution with annotations to ignore this problem: @SuppressWarnings(“unchecked”) A couple other possible uses of the annotation Read More
This tutorial will cover adding an authentication component to your web service though WS-Security. If you need an overview of how to setup CXF then you may find our previous tutorial helpful. Another helpful resource is CXF’s own WS-Security tutorial. However, it does not include information on how to setup the client through Spring. To Read More
The category titled “Pages” on the right-hand side of this blog is an area where WordPress will allow a user to create wiki pages. However, I wanted to include some navigational links in that area as well, which isn’t immediately available through the WordPress admin screens. The solution I found was to create a new Read More
What exactly is an hCard? It’s a format which specifies that some information on a web page is an online business card. The address for Lumidant in the page footer is an hCard. This means when someone with the Operator Firefox extension visits this page they will have the opportunity to do a one-click import Read More
Have you ever wanted to take a screenshot of a web page that won’t fit on a single page? I wanted to do that for a client today and found a handy utility that will do it for you. TechSmith’s SnagIt makes the process far easier that taking multiple screenshots and stitching the panorama together Read More
Rounded corners can create nice presentational effects and are very popular in web design. They also are a bit of a pain to create because they usually require PhotoShop and the markup is not as straightforward as square corners. So I was excited to give Steffen Rusitschka’s method a try, which uses only JavaScript and Read More
In my last post, I mentioned that I installed GIMP to read a Photoshop .psd file. If you’re not familiar with GIMP, it is an extremely high quality free alternative to Photoshop. Using GIMP, I have been able to create several graphical effects with little effort. In this post, I will show you how I Read More