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Java Service Launcher; or Quartz !
The Java Service Launcher is a small executable to start JAVA-programs as a Service under 32bit versions of Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and XP. I used it successfully to run background services to maintain index files. See it at: http://www.roeschter.com/index.html As I really need to run scheduled tasks in the background, say…
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NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5
I was dreaming of an open source Java development tool that let Website programming much easier and mostly visual, this will help juniors and beginners to start developing applications faster. I was dreaming of something like .Net environment, or the Borland DELPHI, but open source of course. I am very happy to say that tool…
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JSPWiki 2.4, a Much Improved Wiki
Today I tried JSPWiki 2.4, it is much improved version, here is a brief of some of the new security features: Wiki-level and page-level privilege control. Security can be applied to individual users as well as to entire groups. Authentication: simple XML file-based, database-based, container-managed and custom authentication modules can be used. Authorization: security policies…
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My Blog: Favoring to be User Friendly Than to be Search Engine Friendly
In my post 10 Tips to Improve Your Blog and Website, I suggested to have a summery of your post and the rest to appear after user click on it. This will be very useful in search ranking by search engines such as Google, but will annoy many users. Especially while I am using Google…
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10 Tips to Improve Your Blog and Website
Here are 10 tips to improve your blog, I already did it on my blog in the last few weeks and now sharing it. Although these tips are used in my Blogger account that is based on the new Layout design, many of them are applicable to any other blog or website. Here are the…
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News Website Basic Features
Modern news websites must have basic features to let users’ life easier, here is a list of those features: 1) Search Page: Search page that uses Search Engine that return fast search hits, and rank the search results. Google right now offer search through a specific website using the keyword site:sitename.com, where sitename.com is the…
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What is Website Feed?
When website publish updates frequently such as news sites or blogs, how could visitors track new updates on that website?, they have to periodically visit the website to see if there exist any updates, this is not a systematic approach and not also convenient. In our busy world, many times you will forget and miss…
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One Great Bundle, Apache, PHP, MySql, …
I always have trouble configuring php with Apache on Windows, manyversions with many differences, actually I spent a lot of timedisappointed and unable to get things working. I finally found a greatbundle that save a lot of time, with one setup file you will be able toinstall Apache, php, mysql, sqlitemanager, phpmyadmin configured andworking properly.…
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Who Links to your Site?
You can know exciting info about your website, it is very interesting. Visit http://www.google.com/webmasters/ and verify website ownership, and then look at interesting data about your website such as Statistics ( Crawl Stats, Query Stats, Page Analysis, and Index Stats), Diagnostics, Links, and Sitemap.You can see that info about all your websites, remember that you…
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Open Source for .Net Developers!
Does open source exist in Microsoft .Net?Yes, there exist great tools for C# and .Net, look at: http://egjug.org/hashimblog/2007/02/02/oss-for-net-developers/ From ahm507.blogspot.com
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Java SE 6 released
Sun announced the public availability of Sun’s JSE 6 platform http://java.sun.com/javase/6/ A quick overview of technology changes http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/features.html For download http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp From ahm507.blogspot.com
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Authenticating Users with Windows Active Directory from Java
Authenticating Users with Windows Active Directory from Java Here is a sample code that works with me: ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// import java.util.*;import javax.naming.*;import javax.naming.directory.*;public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { try { Hashtable env = new Hashtable(); env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, “com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory”); env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, “LDAP://my.ldap.server:389”); //replace with your server URL/IP //only DIGEST-MD5 works with our Windows Active Directory…
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Web Load/Stress/Stability and Performance Test Tools
Microsoft’s Web Application Stress Tool provides an easy way to simulate large numbers of users against your Web application. This tool makes it possible to make intelligent decisions about hardware and software load incurred by your application and how much traffic a given machine or group of machines can handle. In this article Rick shows…
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German Company in Egypt and Open Source Solutions!
I have a friend working as a sales manager in a German company branch inEgypt, it seems he is a bout to leave them. The company sells LearningManagement Solutions and Business Process Management Solution, look atthese links: http://www.im-c.de/international/http://www.ids-scheer.com/ I always prefer open source solutions, this is a strategic direction for me, I found many open…
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Java and Arabic Support
Java uses Unicode as native encoding, so any text will be converted to Unicode for proper handling. Java already has support almost to all known encodings, see: http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html. Our involvement is how to adjust the input and the output; the Input will be from request parameters (in case of web development), files, Properties, and JDBC.…
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HTML Validator based on Tidy that Supports Arabic
HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension to FireFox that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla.It supports Arabic text without any problem, it corrects the tagging and you can get the correct page easily. See it at: http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/download.html See FireFox at http://www.mozilla.com/firefox From ahm507.blogspot.com