Day: October 12, 2007

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Tech Target is a spammer

I am a reader of the ServerSide.com – THE resource for Java development information.
Still, after registering ages ago to the site and the utter collapse of the 1and1.com (my email provider) spam filter (which still does not work) I started getting tons of email from the ServerSide.com’s parent company, TechTarget about things I care less and absolutely not about. Their unsubscribe link takes you to a page that tells you that you are unsubscribed. It even sends you an email to confirm it. And then you still get their annoying invitations to events and conferences that they organize which I naturally do not want to get.
So Tech Target now counts officially as a spammer.
Bad karma unto you, Tech Target. You suck.

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General

Should I subscribe to ‘Men in Nursing’ magazine?

No offense to men practicing nursing. I admire you.
I just find it absurd that the people who are nice enough to send me free subscriptions to really cool magazines (Dr. Dobbs Journal, PC Magazine, to name two) think that if I like computers I will be interested in something like ‘Men in Nursing’ or magazines about fishing, yachting or the chemical industry. Like, I appreciate it, but isn’t it time to sharpen the focus of your data extraction script? People who work with computers are not necessarily into nursing.

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Java Web Development WebSphere

RAD 7 – (Small) SNAFU Number Two (with solution)

Class diagrams are great. RAD 7 has them and it generates and updates code based on them. Lovely.
The forward and reverse engineering capabilities, the works.
Now if you refactor the classes and change package names… then you’re in trouble. The class diagram is like, oblivious to the change and being unable to find the classes the diagram is based on it just chokes. So just be aware of this possible problem.

How to fix this:

  1. Open the dnx class file with RAD’s XML editor.
  2. Search for the term “srcfolder” – this is where the diagram looks for your source code
  3. Do a replace all for the value srcfolder is set to – e.g. srcfolder=src%5B (the %5B stands for the URL encoded ‘]’ character – and set the replacement value to the new refactored package name – e.g. srcfolder=src/java%5B

Now open the diagram again using the DNX file viewer and voila – your diagram is back!

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