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A nice regex for URLs...

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Here's a nice regular expression to use for capturing URLs: ((https?|ftp|gopher|telnet|file|notes|ms-help):((//)|(\\\\))+[\w\d:#@%/;$()~_?\+-=\\\.&...
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Android System Update available!

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Look what showed up on my Nexus One when I do the #*#*2432546*#*# sequence this morning! The Android 2.2.1 aka FRG83D update! In order to speed up contacting...
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Mounting Windows share on Linux

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Here’s how I mount my Windows share on my RHEL machine, without installing Windows Services for Unix… ;) mkdir /home/chuacw/mountpoint mount –t cifs \...
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Lack of security from within: Java insecurity

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Microsoft's Raymond posted this little story about the security of their Benefits application back when Microsoft's email address had exclamation...
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Replacing the SLF4J Logging Framework

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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For an existing Java project that is using the Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J), replacing the logging framework is as simple as changing the project...
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Running code while showing a progress dialog

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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The following code demonstrates how to show a progress dialog while starting up an Android activity. The progress dialog is shown near the end of the creation...
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Is the code running on the Android emulator?

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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" How can I detect the Android emulator? " is a question a lot of people have asked. The authoritative way is as below. On the Android emulator...
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Network Information Centers

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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When I started learning about the Internet, I found out that there are Network Information Centers (NIC) for the various geographical regions. At that...
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Changing colours on Nexus One trackball

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Turning on the trackball cd /sys/class/leds/jogball-backlight echo 7 > brightness echo 5 > period echo 255 0 255 > color Turning off the trackball...
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Someone at Google googles my business!

Posted over 12 years ago

by chuacw
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Apparently, Journeyman Consultancy is well-known enough that someone at Google googled it! 2012-01-05 11:26:40 GET / - 74.125.156.91 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;...
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Re-evaluating parsing with a regular expression

Posted over 12 years ago

by chuacw
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Many years ago, I wrote the following regular expression: ^(?:\s*)(class)?(?:\s*)(constructor|destructor|function|operator|procedure)(?:\s*)(\w+\.)*(\w...
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Maximizing views and increasing performance in a Community Server blog

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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Within a Community Server blog, there is a list of blog entries. Sometimes, it is not easy to know which entry a visitor viewed, because the visitor viewed...
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How to create a Windows 7 bootable rescue USB

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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Run grubinst_gui in Administrator mode Select the USB disk under Device. Click Refresh on the Part List, and select Whole Disk (MBR) (if that fails, redo...
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What would you do if you see these messages?

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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"WARNING: The following IT issues if not plugged will allow hackers to steal your corporate data as easy as waving as magic wand. Millions of dollars...
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Phone numbers are complicated...

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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I've recently found out that the way phone numbers are dialed, they're complicated, if you take into account the way it is dialed in various countries...
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Ripped off by Google AdWords

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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In a battle to get Google AdWords to refund me about US$3-US$10, I am using social media to assist me. I have posted to LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook...
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The design of an efficient web site

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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I began the design of my web site with a few goals. They are as follows: One main page One contact us link One about us link The main page and contact...
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How knowledge of MAC address saved the day!

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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While at a customer site working on an Internet down issue, I came across several issues. The customer told me that the Internet connection was down, and...
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Calculating the DSA private key given the public key

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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Given that there is a DSA public key, declared as follows, and that it is an instance of DSAPublicKeyImpl, we can derive and calculate the DSA private...
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Stopping an Exchange DDOS

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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How many of us can count stopping an Exchange DDOS as a highlight of one's life? What's so great exactly about stopping a DDOS? Imagine that you're...
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Eliminating HTTP headers in a TIdHTTP component

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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While working on a project which uses the TIdHTTP component, I realized I needed to eliminate certain HTTP headers from being sent. After examining the...
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Why I raise my charges...

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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Recently, I snagged a new contract for my business, to provide consulting. Unfortunately, the customer breached the payment terms of the contract twice...
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Working on creating a Mac OS TTrayIcon Delphi component

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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I've been working on a TTrayIcon component for FireMonkey, and for Mac OS since yesterday. My work has yielded some successes. Specifically, I was...
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TTrayIcon on Mac OS and some lessons...

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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While working on the TTrayIcon component, I learnt how to convert NSImage to TBitmap, and vice versa. In addition, I've also learnt how to retrieve...
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How does component persistence in Delphi work?

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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It's been a long while since I've written a Delphi component. As I'm writing yet another Delphi component, this time, on MacOS, I find myself...