This one has been bugging me for quite a while. My office has a large number of multi-function printers and none of them have good support under OS/X. It’s easy to print to them in black and white by treating them as generic HP PCL/PXL printers, but they refuse to work as color printers.
Snow Leopard [...]
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Printing in color to the Savin C3535 printer from OS/X
March 12th, 2010 · View Comments · Mac
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Creating a circular gradient in iReport
February 7th, 2010 · View Comments · Java
JasperReports is an extremely flexible tool for creating reports in Java. Reports are defined as JRXML templates, compiled to JASPER binaries and run through the JasperReports run-time. iReport is the GUI report writing tool that creates the JRXML templates.
A JRXML template is an XML file with a jrxml extension. Here’s an example of a very [...]
Larry’s vision of the cloud
February 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · Computing
While taking a trip to sun.com today, I noticed that it’s already redirecting to oracle.com. And at the same moment I noticed that the headliner at oracle.com is an announcement about the Oracle Cloud Computing Forum. Given Larry’s well know views of the cloud, I found this amusing. And a vision of Larry running a [...]
Apple’s Trojan horse
February 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · iPhone
Apple’s trojan horse is the “computer as appliance”. They’ve managed to create devices that are almost as wide in scope and functionality as general computing devices but are easily accessible to non-technical people. And, more importantly, don’t need technical maintenance or an understanding of the computing underpinnings.
If it were just the App store, [...]
Steve Jobs holds forth at Apple town hall
January 31st, 2010 · View Comments · Mac
Steve Jobs held an internal town hall at Apple after the unveiling of the iPad. Since secrecy is so tight, many at Apple had no idea the iPad was coming. He took questions and second-hand commenters say he had a few choice comments.
He said that Apple bought Lala because they wanted their talent [...]
Don’t misunderstand Oracle’s purchase of Sun
January 31st, 2010 · View Comments · Computing
I was reading a blog post about what will happen now that Oracle has purchased Sun. The poster repeated a number of fallacies that I’ve seen around the web.
1. MySQL is dead now.
MySQL is dead? No its not. Oracle has owned InnoDB and never once used it against MySQL users. They own [...]
Tags:Eclipse·GlassFish·IBM·Java·JDeveloper·MySQL·NetBeans·OpenSolaris·Oracle·Solaris·SPARC·Sun
Maven Micro-Tip: Get sources and Javadocs
January 27th, 2010 · View Comments · Java
When you’re using Maven in an IDE you often find the need for your IDE to resolve source code and Javadocs for your library dependencies. There’s an easy way to accomplish that goal.
# mvn dependency:sources
# mvn dependency:resolve -Dclassifier=javadoc
The first command will attempt to download source code for each of the dependencies in your pom file.
The [...]
Tags:Java·Javadoc·Maven·Source code·Tip
The HTML5 video mess. See it today!
January 22nd, 2010 · View Comments · Web
Two giant video web sites are now running HTML5 video betas. This means that you can use their sites without having Flash active. Vimeo’s setup is especially impressive in that it very closely mimics the Flash experience.
If you don’t know what HTML5 video is, its an HTML video tag that will play video [...]
Tags:Chrome·Codec·Firefox·H.264·HTML5·Internet Explorer·Ogg Theora·Safari·video tag·Vimeo·YouTube
It’s market share time again – who’s winning? Windows, of course.
January 21st, 2010 · View Comments · Computing
ArsTechnica posted the latest operating system market share statistics. As of December, 2009, Windows is still the lions share of the market at 92.21%. OS/X is a very distant second at 5.11% and Linux trails at 1.02%.
The trend is very slightly downward for Windows. It went from 93.66% in January, 2009 to 92.21% [...]
Will the next iPhone OS allow multitasking?
January 19th, 2010 · View Comments · iPhone
It’s not the hardware. And it’s not a fundamental software issue. It’s a combination of UI and trust.
From the UI perspective, Apple didn’t want multiple apps running at the same time without visual feedback. So the few apps that they allow, all provide it. A background phone call shows as a [...]
Tags:iPhone·Multitasking·Slate·Tablet·UI
