Universal Password Manager
After a few months of on and off development I’ve finanally managed to release the first beta of a password manager I’ve been working on. It’s called Universal Password Manager (UPM). My main reason...
View ArticleUPM 1.1 Released
It’s only taken me 7 months but I’ve finally managed to release version 1.1 of UPM. This release introduces one of the main features I’ve wanted since the start of this project, database sharing. This...
View ArticleUsing Managed Sessions in Hibernate to Ease Unit Testing
If you’ve ever tried to reuse a session in Hibernate you may have come across this exception… org.hibernate.SessionException: Session is closed! at...
View ArticleProblem with Hibernate many-to-many association
This post is really a record for both myself and anyone else who ever comes across the same problem. The Problem: Given two entities with a many-to-many association between them, the join table isn’t...
View ArticleUPM 1.4 Released
Version 1.4 of UPM has just been released. The most important feature in this release is the support for multiple languages. It ships with English and French language bundles but I’d really appreciate...
View ArticleHiding & Unhiding the text in a JPasswordField
JPasswordField is a Java SWING control used to manage password fields. Rather than use a normal JTextField it masks the characters typed by the user with some other character (default is an ‘*’). Very...
View ArticleUPM 1.5 Released
Just thought I’d slip another release of UPM out before the end of the year. Here’s what’s new in this release… - Added Czech and German translations (courtesy of Petr Ustohal) - Added username and...
View ArticleMeteor WebSMS
As a Java5/JUnit4/Maven2 learning exercise I’ve written a simple little SMS command line utility called Meteor WebSMS. It allows you to bypass Meteor’s website and send the free web SMS messages they...
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How to Create a Remote Paging Listview Using GWT-Ext
Creating a remote paging listview isn’t particularly difficult but getting to the point of knowing how all the pieces fit together can be tricky first time round. This post describes how I created a...
View ArticleMultipart form upload on Android
Android 1.5 includes Apache HttpClient 4 for the purposes of making HTTP requests. Unfortunately HttpClient 4 (or the version included with Android anyway) doesn’t appear to support multipart form...
View ArticleInstalling Debian 7.1 “Wheezy”
Every time I install Linux, no matter what the distribution, I have the same problems; configuring video and audio. When I installed Debian 7.1 recently I documented the steps I took. Hopefully you’ll...
View ArticleInstalling Android Studio on Debian Wheezy
Android Studio is the new IntelliJ IDEA based Android IDE. It succeeds the current Eclipse based IDE. Android Studio requires Oracle Java 1.6 or later. It won’t work with OpenJDK. Installing Oracle...
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