At the point in writing there aren’t many ways of backing up your SMS’s from your iPhone, but you do a system backup when you sync with itunes but what if you want your SMS conversions backed up as a simple non proprietary format? Well the answer is here! Shea…
We use Hibernate at work, and I’ve been working on getting all our JUnit tests to work on MySQL… Yes hibernate takes care of most of that, and it does, BUT some of our unit tests were failing when I pointed it at MySQL rather then PostgreSQL. After some debugging…
By default Fedora 12 doesn’t install Sun’s Java, and it isn’t in the repository. This isn’t a mistake, in fact I think this is a good decision! Fedora is only dealing with free open source software. You can add other repositories to give you the extra non OSS software you…
Most Java developers know eclipse is an awesome IDE, it’s customisation and auto-completeness is great.. It even auto completes annotations in the code far ya. When added a @author annotation to some code, it’ll automatically try and add your name.. which is great, but it uses your logon name, not…
I think the title says it all, I was just checking something at work and needed to run one of our Java apps using the command line, I did the standard: java -cp jarfile1.jar:jarfile2.jar au.gov. and hit tab key twice out of habit and to my surprise bash had checked…
I’ve been updating our ant build scripts to compile all our third party library’s from source for two reasons: So we don’t keep binary blobs under CVS, and So it is easy to distribute the source of the libraries we use. Ant is a very powerful build system, and everything…
This has been around for a while, but I’ve only just stumbled across this as I have been looking at into the licensing of some 3rd party jars we use at work.
GNU have a free implementation of the Sun JavaMail API specification, which means we now have some more GPL’d jars we can use.