Archive for February, 2009

 

Starting Up a Web Design Company: Step 1 – The Founding

February 28th, 2009

This is the first of a many parts series about starting up a web design company. Please scroll to the bottom of the article to read the other parts of this series.
Beamstyle was founded one day when I met a friend during a lunch. We both have the vision to be an entrepreneur, [...]

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My Pair Programming Experience on a Projector Screen

February 21st, 2009

Have you ever had this experience in the office? Your boss assigned a task to your manager, then your manager assigned the task to you. However, what you’ve heard from your manager is actually different from what your boss wants. Your boss saw your code and he/she doesn’t like it. He/She [...]

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Hibernate ScrollableResults: OutOfMemoryError: Java Heap Space

February 18th, 2009

Today, I was working a newsletter program in Java using the Hibernate library.  I decided to use the ScrollableResults object because I do not have to load all of the database entity at once.  Instead, I can use a database cursor to retrieve the entity one by one.
At the beginning, I wrote this code.
ScrollableResults userCursor [...]

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Supermarket and Frustrating Flash Animations

February 18th, 2009

Tonight, I went to the supermarket and I wanted to check the number of points my supermarket cards has. I was greeted by this mess. Wow.
You may think this is wierd, but actually there are so many websites which does similar things.

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Table2CSS Converter Review: It works, but it’s not the best.

February 15th, 2009

A couple days ago, I was given a task to convert a webpage using HTML tables for positioning to a webpage using CSS for positioning. I was rather lazy and I looked for a free tool to do this task. After looking up in Google for a few minutes, I found this software [...]

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