In Java, Beans are an important part of good programming practices and good Object-Oriented coding. There has been a lot of discussion recently about monitoring changes on beans other such functionality that is not inherently built into Java. With my Magic Beans project I’ve already done a lot of things along these lines, but recently…
Category: java
Multithreaded Unzip?
A co-worker and I were discussing the possibilities of performance gain doing extraction of ZIP files using multiple threads rather than the typically single-threading extraction that the majority (if not all) mainstream archive extraction utilities use and given Java’s great ZIP file support built-in it seemed rather trivial to give this a shot, thus, UberZip…
Flex Native Drag-and-Drop: The Massive Hack
I had made the commitment a while back that I was going to add complete and perfect drag-and-drop support to jSeamless. The Flex Implementation proclaims support for DnD so I’ve just pushed off the investigation up until recently. However, now that I’ve come to implement this great functionality I realize that there is absolutely no…
Applet Roadblock
My massive hack for native drag-and-drop in jSeamless Flex implementation is functional, but only in Firefox. Apparently there is an interesting “feature” in IE that even though you may sign your Applet and the user grants that they way to trust said Applet, it still never gives you read access to the file system. That…
Flash/Flex URLRequest Upload Security Hack – Part 2
So I lied, apparently my hackery wasn’t enough to appease IE even though Firefox happily worked going forward. Apparently in IE it determines, “Oh, I’ve been authenticated on this URL before…so lets send broken authentication information instead of an upload”, and then no matter what you respond back to the request with it just ignores…
Flash/Flex URLRequest Upload Security Hack
It’s been a while since I posted and after dealing with this horrid bug in Flash I figured it would be a great topic to get me back on track. So, apparently there’s this nifty little bug in Flash/ActionScript with the URLRequest object when you attempt to do a file upload, it uses a completely…
jSeamless: The Conspiracy
Okay, so this probably doesn’t par up to the JFK assassination, those crop circles, or how in the world John Locke can survive a bullet in the chest, but it’s starting to really bother me. I developed jSeamless with the intent of “seamlessly” bringing technologies together to make life easier on the developer. However, I’m…
Stressing
No, in a good way. 🙂 We’ve been working through a lot of stress testing at work for jSeamless to prove that it can stand up to an unreasonable load only exceeded by getting “slashdotted. We have faired quite well and we’re currently working to get the document released for public “consumption”. This will be…
More Advanced Object Pooling
I generally post a message in my blog after I’ve already done it, but this time I’m trying something a bit different and posting the idea as a mechanism to draw it out. In my jCommon project I have Object Pooling support already, but it’s explicitly limited to the pooling itself. While developing Galaxies Beyond…
Sudoku API
Yeah, I’ve done it again. I’m well known for reinventing the wheel and this is no exception. As I’ve previously mentioned I decided to write a Multiplayer Sudoku game that you can compete with other players online playing. Well, I sort of got stuck for a while on the puzzle generation. I hate the idea…