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Great Java API browser

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:17:00 GMT

What I think is the best thing you can do for API documentation is to let users comment the 'official' documents. This is now possible with a AJAX API viewer available at http://www.jdocs.com/.

But this is not the only cool thing about this API browser: it contains all the Java API's you need in your daily Java-live: JDK, hibernate, spring, log4j, ehcache, apache commons, all other apache libraries, groovy graisls, eclipse, lucene.... It's all in there, one consistene interfaces, with comments and free.

Really cool I think!

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Dealing with encoding issues

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:09:00 GMT

Porting an OLAT installation from a Windows to a Linux server can produce many encoding issues. Windows uses normally Windows-1252 AKA CP1252 encoding and Linux nowadays often uses UTF-8.

It is not possible to just move the files from the Windows server to the Linux server, filenames that contain äöü will all have ??? instead.

Read the entire article to learn what the common pitfalls are and how you can solve them.

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Must-have web developer software firebug

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:24:00 GMT

On Ajaxian a post got my attention about a Firefox plugin called Firebug. See this screencast (direct link to the mov file), be impressed and download it.

Steve Jobs would say that Firebugs is insanely great!

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