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The easiest way to run Tomcat as a Windows service

Organizations running Apache Tomcat in production on Windows often want to run Tomcat as a Windows service. This removes the need for someone to be actively logged into the server and provides an easy way to integrate with Windows management tools. In
Jul 24 2010 08:01 AM
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Screencast: From install to RESTful resource in less than 3 minutes

RESTx: From install to RESTful resource in less than 3 minutesWe have put up a screencast that shows you how to get started with RESTx, our platform for the rapid, easy creation of RESTful web services. RESTx allows developers to contribute data access,
Jul 21 2010 06:38 AM
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Turbo charging front-end development with user-created RESTful resources

In this article, I will show you how RESTx – an open source project for the creation of RESTful resources – allows front-end developers to quickly and easily make their own data resources, without having to rely on the back-end server team
Jul 15 2010 05:37 AM
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How to pass parameters in EL methods

How to pass multiple parameters in an EL function, in 3 simple steps. Related posts:3 ways to run Java main from Maven2 ways to convert Java Map to StringJAXB code snippets for beginners
Jul 15 2010 12:35 AM
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Bring Erl On: Provisioning RabbitMQ users through Mule

Though a veteran language and platform, Erlang has recently gained a lot of traction, as very visible web sites and open source projects decided to use it in order to leverage its intrinsic support for highly concurrent, fault tolerant and distributed
Jul 09 2010 07:00 AM
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Dynamic Requesting with Mule ESB

Imagine you want to build a synchronous HTTP service that fetches the data for its response over a JMS queue. Or from a directory whose path is dependent on the incoming request. If this sounds familiar then congratulations, you’ve been dealing
Jun 25 2010 07:24 PM
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ActiveMQ behaving badly? Mule MQ to the rescue! A use-case example

A few months ago, I received a number of complaints from Mule customers about strange freezes that they couldn’t trace to any cause. When I investigated, I noticed something – all of these customers were using ActiveMQ. I dug a little deeper, and found
Jun 25 2010 04:30 PM
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How to write a simple scrapper in PHP without Regex

Web scrappers are simple programs that are used to extract certain data from the web. Usually the structure of the the pages is known so scrappers have reduced complexity compared to parsers and crawlers. In this tutorial we are going to create a simple
Jun 15 2010 10:10 PM
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Show pictures from Picasa albums in your custom website using Zend Framework

Zend Framework and Zend Gdata API provide a simple and effective solution to display pictures and galleries from your picasa account in your own custom website. Lets take one of the public galleries in picasa show it in a custom php page in this
Jun 13 2010 07:58 PM
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Beyond Integration, Part 1: Peak Time Handling

As an integration framework and broker, Mule ESB is the platform of choice for implementing and deploying enterprise integration solutions and related services. In this series of posts, I’m going to look at situations beyond the traditional
Jun 09 2010 10:09 PM
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HowTo: Get an Android app's database from the emulator

Most apps need a database for storing their data onto the device in a structured form. Android's natively supported DB is SQLite. Now of course if you develop an app you'll probably have the need for inspecting the stored data during development. Since
Jun 03 2010 05:48 PM
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How to Create Your first WordPress Theme: Part 2

This is the second part of the “How to Create Your first WordPress Theme” tutorial series. Just in case you have missed the first part, please go here and start reading. You can Download source files of this tutorial or Live preview this
May 21 2010 01:17 PM
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Expert Tips on How to Build a Multicultural Website

For anyone undertaking any kind of creative endeavour in cyberspace, the proclamation that the ‘web is global’ should be an unspoken mantra that underpins any design consideration. Here I run you through some of the basics of multicultural web design.
May 20 2010 12:00 AM
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How to renew your Tcat Server license for free development use

Tcat Server is the best solution for running enterprise Apache Tomcat in IT. Tcat Server is also a great choice in development environments with its reliable restarts, rich tomcat specific diagnostics and more. Best of all, Tcat Server is free for use in
May 13 2010 05:52 PM
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30+ Things You Have to Know about being a Freelancer

Wanting to be a freelancer? – there are many things you need to be aware of. In this article I will list many things for you to think through and consider before jumping into the freelance business. I hope this list will be a valuable tool for you
May 08 2010 01:10 AM
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30+ Best Texture Tutorials for Photoshop

Making art or various designs will often require different textures. It can be that you need it for that extra grungy look or maybe you are trying to recreate a piece of denim for a logo. It can be very useful to be able to make your own textures in
May 05 2010 12:53 AM
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Clustering Tomcat in 2 minutes using Tcat and Terracotta

Last week, we did a webinar with Terracotta on scaling and managing your web applications running on Tomcat. During the webinar, I did a short demo that showed a Terracotta profile, which makes it super easy to setup the environment required for web
May 04 2010 04:30 PM
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How to Create a Sleek Wii Controller

Today we will be creating one of the most beautiful and evolutionary product. The Wii is a video game system made by Nintendo that has a unique interface that forces players to get physically involved in the game playing action. For creating a Wii
May 02 2010 07:26 AM
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The easiest way to get Tcat on Ubuntu

Linux has become the platform of choice for many enterprises and has led the move towards reducing costs and improving effectiveness by using Open Source solutions. Our friends at Canonical are leading the charge in providing easy to use, compelling
Apr 28 2010 09:22 PM
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11 Awesome tips to Work without Distraction

In this article I aim to give you some tips on how to be able to work better, undisturbed by everything that is going on around you. Depending on what you work with it may some times be a big advance to be able to work without the interruption from
Apr 23 2010 12:48 AM
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Prepare For Challenge: How To Keep Deadlines

If you work from a home office as a freelancer, deadlines can be challenging to keep unless you prepare well. Having failed many times due to various reasons I decided to make a recipe on how to be able to keep deadlines. For me deadlines can sometimes
Apr 22 2010 12:21 PM
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How to Create a Custom Error 404 page for WordPress

This tutorial will teach you how to create an error 404 page for your WordPress powered site. If you already have an error 404 page you will learn how to make it a bit more user-friendly and dynamic. An error 404 is when a visitor tries to access a page
Apr 16 2010 01:19 PM
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Flip your Tip: Keeping the Event-delegation Tooltip in View

Before we begin, please accept my apologies for not posting this tutorial sooner. I know at least two or three people were beginning to wonder if I'd ever finish what I started with this tooltip series. Please also forgive me if the phrase "flip your
 
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Apr 15 2010 07:21 PM
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15 Tips for Freelancers: What to Do in Slow Days and Dry Times

If you work as a freelancer you will most likely have quiet periods sometimes. During holidays or just occasionally there will be a dry period where the projects are fewer. But do not fret! Here is a collection of useful things you can do to take
Apr 14 2010 05:26 PM
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How to configure multiple page.xml files in Seam 2.2

Seam lets you specify navigation rules in the pages.xml file which can become very large for apps with many pages and transitions. Seam allows you to break this file into multiple small files. This allows you to easily manage large applications by
Apr 14 2010 02:34 AM
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How to Create a PHP Website Template from Scratch

This is a tutorial on creating a PHP website template starting with HTML and CSS. We will start with the basics and you can also download the final product. Please remember that I am using very basic CSS styling in this example just for you to get the
Apr 13 2010 12:21 PM
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7 Awesome Rules for Designing a Perfect Logo

A logo is that concept, symbol, graphic element that represents the main feature or the basic orientation of one company, site or product. In other words the logo is the element which provides feed-back to the potential customer. The purpose of one logo
Apr 12 2010 01:18 AM
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Spring Cleanup: 30 Must Do Tasks for Freelancers and Creatives

The spring is a great time, isn’t it? :) At my house I always spend a lot of time cleaning the house, washing windows and doing some extra cleaning after a long winter. As a freelancer/creative I’ve started a tradition on cleaning up in my
Apr 09 2010 12:07 AM
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HowTo: Prevent Visual Studio from auto-formatting your jQuery source

When writing JavaScript code with Visual Studio 2008 it automatically formats your source code when going into a new line or placing the ";" delimiter. This is quite nice as long as you're writing plain old JavaScript code. But when you start coding
Apr 07 2010 09:29 AM
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Quick Photoshop Tutorial: Create A HD Television Icon

Hello and welcome to another Adobe Photoshop tutorial, today we are going to create a HD Television. I don’t think this tutorial and creation will be too difficult for you because I’ve put everything in easy to follow steps and tried to
Apr 07 2010 12:32 AM
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Amazing CSS3 Techniques You Can’t live Without

CSS3, along with HTML5, is quickly shaping up to be one of the most exciting and useful Web technologies in years. In this article, I will be explaining some of the new graphics-rich techniques and properties available with CSS3. You will learn what is
Apr 05 2010 03:31 PM
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35 Awesome and Inspiring “Movie-Effect” Photoshop Tutorials

Having played around with Photoshop for about ten years, I have found that a good way to learn is to just dive into some of the great tutorials that are out there. In this article I will show you 35 tutorials where you will learn to recreate various
Mar 30 2010 10:52 AM
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How to Implement Ajax in WordPress Themes

AJAX(Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) as we all knows is a very democratic technology in web development that allows a web page to update the content without page reload or refresh. And WordPress is widely being used not just for Blogs but for CMS’s as
Mar 29 2010 04:49 PM
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Invoking a service method in Mule

At TSSJS last week I had a conversation with a Mule user that was having a problem invoking more than one method on a service component (just a POJO object). His scenario was that he had a service with multiple inbound endpoints and a service component
Mar 25 2010 06:03 PM
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Executing a UNIX command in background

Here’s a small UNIX tip (or how-to) for executing a command in the background. For UNIX gurus, this tip might seem like a basic one. But for guys like me who are coming from a Windows background, even smaller ones makes a big difference. This is
Mar 25 2010 09:45 AM
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How to Create a Flash-like Color and Pattern Morphing effect with jQuery

Today you will learn, how you can create a Flash-like effect with only using a few lines of jQuery and a transparent PNG as mask. Not only will you be able to dynamically change the color of the logo, but also add patterns as you wish and even animate
Mar 24 2010 12:18 AM
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Know How To Plan Your Website Redesign & Get Inspired

With this article I will start very serious article and experience series, showing you step by step how we will do our redesign process. I sat down one day and wrote all little steps I will need to do in order to create, plan new design, code it to
Mar 22 2010 08:02 PM
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Getting started with Fake Objects – Part 3: Verify that a call has been made

If you haven’t read the other posts in this trilogy - you might what to have a look at them about now: Why fake is better then mock How to create a fake object Let’s begin the third part of this tutorial where I’ll explain what to do when we need to test
 
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Mar 17 2010 12:05 AM
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Create A Stylish And Sleek Play-Station Portable Icon

In this Photoshop tutorial we’ll learn how to create a stylish and sleek-looking play station portable. This is very detailed, but advanced tutorial, so if you have basic knowledge and understanding about Photoshop you should be able to easily keep up
Mar 11 2010 04:29 PM