Author: yuval

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Computing Web Development

Weird Firefox 3 Issue

So I succumbed to the urge an installed Firefox 3 on my home machine. Most extensions are there now, except for my beloved TinyURL Creator, so things are pretty cool. That, except for the weird icon that I have appearing above the File menu (and cannot appear to be removed) that looks like this:

firefox-3-weird

What is FF FD? Any ideas?!

UPDATE:

I believe I have a solution to the issue. One of my add-ons/extensions was apparently not compatible with Firefox 3 (and I *did* tinker with it being a bit of a hopeful thinker – ‘How bad can it be?’) or that have a conflict with other extensions (sounds very Mac OS 9…). In any case, if this happens to you, the procedure to detect the offending extension is pretty simple:

  1. Go to the ‘Tools’ menu and select ‘Add-ons’.
  2. Click the ‘Extensions’ button which will list all available extensions.
  3. One by one, disable all of them. Extensions should have a ‘Disable’ button available when you click them in the extension list. Although you will be prompted to restart Firefox after you disable the first one, you can disable all of them and only then restart.
  4. Restart Firefox. It will most like take a bit of time, but it will start and I will be that you will not see the pesky FF FD icons anymore.
  5. Now, one by one, or two by two (whatever) re-enable the extensions. You will eventually get the FF FD back there, but by this method of deduction you will get to know precisely which is the offending extension (the last one you enabled!).

Hope this is of help.

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Java Web Development

Using Velocity date tool with Spring MVC

I was having trouble getting Velocity‘s date tool to work with Spring MVC. I followed the instructions, most copied verbatim from what was most likely one ancient source. Those instructions said that to enable Velocity’s date formatting tool, DateTool, I needed to configure the VelocityViewResolver like this (WRONG):

<bean id="viewResolver">
  class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityViewResolver"></bean>
<br /><property name="numberToolAttribute"><value>numbertool</value></property>
<br /><property name="dateToolAttribute"><value>datetool</value></property>
&nbsp;

And then use it as:

$date.format("yyyy-MM-dd", $currentDate)

This would have been cool had I seen it in just one source but more than one source had it. The problem is small but crucial:

The value you give the dateToolAttribute property will be the name of the object Velocity will try to access when you are using the tool. So in the above configuration, the value for dateToolAttribute is “dateTool”, and hence the usage should be:

$dateTool.format(“yyyy-MM-dd”, $currentDate)

It may sound petty but it took me time to discover… lame.

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General

Firefox 3 – please wait

So I joined the hordes downloading Firefox 3. Download is slow if you are even successful, as they are aiming to break the download world record. That is fine, but even if you are successful, you end up with a Firefox version that very few of your beloved extensions (Firebug, Fireshot, Delicious and others) will work with out of the box or update automatically. No need to rush. It work and all – weee go Mozilla! – but I am downgrading right now – you can find a download of Firefox 2 that *does* work from Google.

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