Random Thoughts Blog

Lately I’ve been writing a Java program to post a web form and then scrape the data from the resultant web page. For some sites this is pretty easy, unfortunately …
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Jim died 3 years ago. Here’s a link to his obit:

http://www.yellowfootprints.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10531

Jim helped us out with Toys for Tots at 4th Tank Battalion and was always cheerful and gave …
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‘************************************************************** ‘* Searches a directory with Excel 2007 vba ‘* Needed because Microsoft disabled FileSearch function ‘* ‘*************************************************************** Sub File_Search()

Dim Coll_Docs As New Collection Dim Search_path, Search_Filter, Search_Fullname As …
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Last year I acquired a Dell M1530 XPS to do some analysis and development with. The reviews on it were good, even if it did have Vista on it. I …
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That was fun. Not! Luckily I had a lot of help:http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/bambooteamblog/archive/2008/05/21/how-to-install-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-sp1-on-vista-x64-x86.aspx

The Bamboo Nation tutorial got me most of the way. But I had to follow up with these steps …
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1) For the love of God: know how to type. Obviously you will be doing a lot of keyboard work. Not just in Word and Powerpoint, there is some funky scripting …
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This was the easiest solution I found:

First, use a JSNI call in your main entry class:

private static native void redirectToUrl(String prefix) /*-{

$wnd.location = prefix + “/index.jsp?logoff=true”;

}-*/;

…
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I got a little snagged when running Tomcat 5.5 application server on an XP box. War files were not deploying correctly.

This can happen when one of the files or …
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