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garywaddell

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Using Dynamic Stylesheets for IE

We all know Internet Explorer is a pita when it comes to standardizing CSS.  You find you are spending a number of hours testing your website between different IE versions only to find some very cool CSS techniques you used end up looking miserable in IE.  I guess it’s what we have to expect from [...]

Ant Missing in PDT Eclipse for Mac

So you want to run some build Ant scripts using your PDT Eclipse installation on your new Mac computer, but where is the view?  In fact, where is Ant?  It appears PDT is not part of the Eclipse PDT bundle, so you need to activate it in the Help |  Software Updates section.  You’ll find [...]

Customizing the CKEditor Toolbar

If you want to create your own custom CKEditor toolbar, here are the options you can reference when you update the config.js file.  Use the ‘-’ to group the icons and the ‘/’ to put icons into a new line.  So far, my experience with CKEditor is a good one. config.toolbar = ‘Full’; config.toolbar_Full = [...]

EApps Bug – www alias

I use EApps for all of my clients.  They are one of the best hosting services as they offer true VPS hosting services at a very affordable rate.  The support is very thorough as well, knowledgeable, quick to respond etc.  I have been a customer for years now, and continue to be very happy with [...]

Button Generator

A great site for creating Web 2.0 Buttons http://jirox.net/AsButtonGen/

WSWS3227E – java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

So you get your web service client working nicely and deploy your code to Websphere only to find this ugly Websphere Exception: [6/3/10 21:28:28:081 EDT] 00000035 Connection    E com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.client.Connection invoke WSWS3227E:  Error: Exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: argument type mismatch From what I have read online, this can happen based on the webservices.jar file not being the most [...]

Java Calendar – Calculate Number of Days between two dates

Calendar date1 = Calendar.getInstance(); // You can set date1 to any date date1.set(Calendar.MONTH,1); date1.set(Calendar.YEAR,1980); Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance(); int numberOfDays = (date1.getTime().getTime() – now.getTime().getTime()) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);

Our Education System

Although this is not a technical article, it certainly opens your mind to our education system today, I certainly hope we can change the way it works because I believe Sir Ken Robinson completely. http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.htmlI

Logging Soap Messages – Trace.log

If you need to log SOAP information in Websphere, you can turn on trace logging and set the following value in the Change Log Details Level (Logging and Tracing > ServerName > Diagnostic Trace Service > Change Log Detail Levels) : com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.*=all This will log only the SOAP web service messages without seeing all of [...]

Websphere SSL – Keystores and Trust Files

There may be occasions where you need to perform SSL web services through your application into another web service.  You need to become a bit familiar with key stores and trust files.  I ended up using the default dummy files shipped with WebSphere, you will see this in the IBM article I will refer you [...]

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