RE: [jug-discussion] just curious - flamebait

2006-09-21 Thread Vincent Greene
Are you bored? You know, the really good trolls only whack the beehive once with great efficiency and watch the bees fly around stinging everything in sight for hours (sometimes days!). If you just take little swings now and then, the bees figure out who is responsible pretty quickly. Some bee

RE: [jug-discussion] Organization & Hosting Solution

2006-02-01 Thread Vincent . Greene
Geez Timo, did we offend you? First you dis our job offering, now the "wear out the welcome" crack. ;) For the record, the JUG did not wear out the welcome at AMO, we just kept converting the big conference rooms into office space until there were no more conference rooms big enough for the me

Re: [jug-discussion] Google Insider

2005-04-22 Thread Vincent . Greene
Try www.randmcnally.com. Use the trip planner and you can add all kinds of stops and get detailed driving directions and maps.--- Begin Message --- Say Nick - After you become a Google Insider...maybe you can figure out if the Maps engine http://maps.google.com/ can be asked to map multiple l

Re: [jug-discussion] XML / Flex MXML editing in Intellij IDEA

2004-11-12 Thread Vincent . Greene
--- Begin Message --- Vince -- just stop reading now. You too, Drew. And anyone else who uses VI or EMACS -- skip this post. ;-)   Just found out that the built-in XML editor in IDEA will happily suggest all the possible MXML tags after typing "<" if you have configured a "resource" in the

Re: [jug-discussion] Eclipse question

2004-09-01 Thread Vincent . Greene
I think you are thinking of Simon -- he's the man that knows about writing Plugins and using SWT. Unfortunately he is off to New Zealand for a couple weeks, so it looks like you get to read that big PDF. For your CVS issue, you might try the Filters option on Package Explorer title bar pull do

Re: [jug-discussion] i'm lazy ;-), copy/move uppercase files/folders to lower-case

2004-03-17 Thread Vincent . Greene
I would forget about copying them and just use the File class and ZipOutputStream to read the mixed case files with embedded spaces while writing a zip file with lowercase names and underscores. Should be pretty simple and you wouldn't have to create a copy of everything and then zip it as anot

Re: [jug-discussion] Hello, I am sort of new to the list

2004-01-19 Thread Vincent Greene
I always thought Phoenix was hell. Sun DEVILS, DIABLO stadium, etc. NYC doesn't get hot enough to be hell. Michael Oliver wrote: Yea I was in hell for about 8 months, aka NYC. But back in Tucson for a while. Ollie On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 17:38, Richard Hightower wrote: / // How is it going

Re: [jug-discussion] JMeter?

2003-11-14 Thread Vincent Greene
I have used it a couple of times a little over a year ago. It is pretty flexible and easy to configure. It has a proxy capture function that is very valuable for capturing an initial script. Obviously, the price is right. Tim Colson wrote: > Anybody here tried/used this load test tool? > > htt

Re: [jug-discussion] Pet Peave

2003-11-10 Thread Vincent Greene
On a unix machine with a bash shell, assuming all of your project jars are in the same directory: for J in *.jar; do echo $J; jar tvf $J | grep Classname ; done Substitute your unqualified classname for Classname and you will get something like: # for J in *.jar; do echo $J; jar tvf $J | grep P

Re: [jug-discussion] March Meeting Problem

2003-03-11 Thread Vincent Greene
+1 Happy hour - Doubletree Simon Ritchie wrote: > Unfortunately, our main presenter has had an emergency and has been > forced to cancel tonight's presentation. > > She has offered to do the presentation again in May, but unless someone > has a presentation ready, we are left with a couple of alt

Re: [jug-discussion] I've always wondered... [element names inclosing tags in XML]

2003-02-25 Thread Vincent Greene
If you are concerned about size, compress it. The Zip classes use a compression algorithm that assigns tokens to commonly occuring strings. The net result is compression of a database represented in XML tends to give incredible compression rates as it takes all of those long repeated tags and com

Re: [jug-discussion] I've always wondered...

2003-02-22 Thread Vincent Greene
I would assume it would make it easier for the parser to find problems like: 123 So a tag is missing, which one? should it be: 123 or 123 With element names in closing tags, the parser can stop at the first mismatched tag. Without the element names, it must go all the way to the bottom of t

[jug-discussion] JVM on a Chip

2003-02-10 Thread Vincent Greene
Try: http://www.ibutton.com/TINI/ and http://www.ibutton.com/ibuttons/java.html TINI is very cool. It is only a JDK 1.1 level implementation, but it has so much peripheral support in so little space: DIMM size board with multiple serial ports, 1 Wire interface (see ibutton stuff), Ethernet, e

Re: [jug-discussion] January Presentation

2003-01-08 Thread Vincent Greene
Oh no! Here comes the self-censorship argument again ;-) Erik Hatcher wrote: > On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 03:47 PM, Tim Colson wrote: > >> did anybody else see the article in Java Pro this month. > > Yep. It was pathetic, IMHO. Should have been in the magazine, > > "JavaNovice" instead o

Re: [jug-discussion] Tuesday's presentation

2002-12-09 Thread Vincent Greene
You forgot a few options: 6. Tim does a normal 15 minute presentation (which is usually somewhere around 30 minutes), after which we adjorn to the nearest bar and drink beer (On Warner's tab). 7. Cancel the meeting and use the time to finish our Christmas shopping. if (this instanceof Procrastin

Re: [jug-discussion] dec. presentation/jan. presentation

2002-11-14 Thread Vincent Greene
Sick! Shouldn't that be s/\+1/\+2/g anyway? Mike Oliver wrote: > s/+1/+2/g > > Michael Oliver > AppsAsPeers LLC > 7391 S. Bullrider Ave. > Tucson, AZ 85747 > Phone:(520)574-1150 > Fax:(520)844-1036 > > -Original Message- > From: Thomas Hicks [mailto:hickst@;tohono.com] > Sent: Thursday,

Re: [jug-discussion] dec. presentation recap

2002-11-14 Thread Vincent Greene
+1 for O/R tools. I don't think EJB counts as an O/R tool, and the EJB vs. O/R tools discussion would make a fine topic all by its self. I would especially like to see a knowledgable proponent for each "duke" it out. Maybe we could find an impartial (hah!) moderator. Warner Onstine wrote: > Ok

Re: [jug-discussion] OT - sql question

2002-10-31 Thread Vincent Greene
I think it may depend on the version of MySql, but in the version I am using, sub-selects are not supported. You can get the same results with a left join like: select email from Member left join PollVote on Member.pk_member_id = PollVote.member_id where PollVote.member is null I suspect once yo

Re: [jug-discussion] Eclipse Tips and Tricks

2002-09-11 Thread Vincent Greene
In Eclipse, you would accomplish the same thing by clicking on the yellow "quick fix" thingy that it puts in the margin to the left of the statement. It will present a menu of possible fixes, including adding an import statement or qualifying the name. You can also highlight the class name, righ

Re: [jug-discussion] fun with Ant: new Review of Jython book

2002-07-30 Thread Vincent Greene
Congratulations Rick, you are the first person I ever met outside the electronics  community that had a solid understand of the role of "magic smoke" in the Integrated Circuit  fabrication process.   Rick Hightower wrote: Mike, No... but I once wrote a TSR in C with some assembly that would occ

Re: [jug-discussion] Eclipse-weirdness OSX shared

2002-07-25 Thread Vincent Greene
In the Java perspective in Eclipse, there is a little down arrow icon at the top right of the Package Explorer pane.  If you click on this it gives you a list of filters.  One of them is "Hide .* files".  If you uncheck it, you will be able to directly edit the .classpath and .project files witho

Re: [jug-discussion] Eclipse Stupidity Continues!

2002-07-17 Thread Vincent Greene
Just unpack at the root of your eclipse install (c:\eclipse) using folders and it will install itself into the proper plugin folders. You might need to restart the IDE before it takes effect. It is a pretty well hidden project. Basically, it will add an XML Editor that is linked by default to a

Re: [jug-discussion] Eclipse Problem: Cannot Run Java Apps

2002-07-16 Thread Vincent Greene
You need to make sure you are in the Java Perspective (use the Window-Open Perspective to get it), then you will have a "Run-Run as" on the menu bar, or a little running dude icon on the toolbar. I imagine you are in the Resource Perspective, which is the initial default. Close it once you have

Re: [jug-discussion] new idea

2002-06-26 Thread Vincent Greene
We have a project in the works to implement cross-sell on our web sites (and telephone orders of course) that is more focused on the merchandising group choose items that complement other items. However, during our data warehousing phase a couple years ago, we looked a number of god-awful expensi

Re: [jug-discussion] Eclipse - was RE: [jug-discussion] Second time a charm

2002-06-25 Thread Vincent Greene
It might be obvious, but I missed it for several weeks... You should also create file associations in Eclipse (Window-preferences-Workbench-File Associations) mapping *.htm and *.html to the XML editor to get colorized HTML source. Art Gramlich wrote: > Simon, > > Good call on http://sourceforg

Re: [jug-discussion] drive recovery software os x

2002-06-20 Thread Vincent Greene
Sorry. Our entry to the Mac world is very recent and very shallow. Basically we like it because it is unix based but has a usable GUI. Most of our I.T. department solutions for Macs involves jokes about "simultaneously pressing the jump and kick buttons while rotating the joystick to the left".

Re: [jug-discussion] July's Topics

2002-06-06 Thread Vincent Greene
Thursday, June 6, 2002, at 08:49 AM, Vincent Greene wrote: > > Refresh my memory. Other than a competing product to Ulysses Everett McGill's >favorite hair jelly "Dapper Dan", what is FOP? > > Rene Stone wrote: > > Yes, I could do a presentation

Re: [jug-discussion] July's Topics

2002-06-06 Thread Vincent Greene
Refresh my memory.  Other than a competing product to Ulysses Everett McGill's favorite hair jelly "Dapper Dan", what is FOP? Rene Stone wrote: Yes, I could do a presentation on FOP sometime.  I need to spend a little time to work on it.  I was going to do it in April (just off the cuff), when we

Re: [jug-discussion] collections questions

2002-05-30 Thread Vincent Greene
As long as the List you are dealing with meets the rules of a Set (most importantly that there are no duplicates in this case), you can use implement it using a TreeSet created with the appropriate Comparator, and the Set will be maintained in sorted order at all times. There can be a performance

[jug-discussion] CVS client for Mac OS 10

2002-05-23 Thread Vincent Greene
Does anyone know of a decent (preferably graphical) CVS client for Mac OS 10? We keep our web templates and images in CVS and I would like our HTML developer to be able to directly work with the CVS repository. - To unsubscri