Monthly Archives: May 2005

Mplayer does not seem to detect the aspect ratio of connected monitors. You have to specify the monitoraspect parameter. If you have one of those 16:10 laptop widescreen monitors this might greatly increase your viewing experience (put monitoraspect=16:10 in your … Continue reading →

The default Typo layout is really slow and IMHO not very readable on high res screens. Luckily the WordPress inspired theme was CSS’d well enough that it took about 10 minutes to refit the blog with a new layout. In … Continue reading →

When you find this.. …picture on the Sun homepage it should be a reminder that putting all (any?) eggs in the Java/Sun basket is a really bad idea or Project Harmony might be here at exactly the right time!

Went to J-Spring this week. It was the first time I attended this annual NLJUG event. It was very well organized. The opening talk by Duncan Mills was nice. Amongst other things he demo’ed some JSF interface abstractions where the … Continue reading →

Today I switched to the Typo blogging system. I was quite happy with Roller but Typo gives me a very good excuse to do some more stuff with Ruby on Rails since Typo is Rails based. It’s not as polished … Continue reading →

Configuring your Trails web application is really simple. By default Trails (0.6) comes configured for the built-in HSQL database. Start by modifying the context/WEB-INF/hibernate.properties file like: hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect hibernate.show_sql=true hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=update hibernate.connection.driver_class=org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver hibernate.connection.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/&lt;dbname&gt; hibernate.connection.username=&lt;dbusername&gt; hibernate.connection.password=&lt;dbpassword&gt; replacing <db*> entries with the appropiate values … Continue reading →