Working with Date and Time in Java
August 12th, 2008JODA is a very good API for working with DateTime paradigms in a much more comfortable way than the basic JDK functions do. See on Userfriendly for a good summary what JODA has to offer.
JODA is a very good API for working with DateTime paradigms in a much more comfortable way than the basic JDK functions do. See on Userfriendly for a good summary what JODA has to offer.
The #1 graphic app that scares me most. Never needed so much research time to find some basic functions like round corner rectangles and duplicating graphical objects. Time to start a personal FAQ based on my experiences and Andrés helpful advices (thx):
Duplicating objects
Simple way: In Selection Tool Mode(V) drag the object holding ALT to make a duplicate at another location. Use STRG + D to duplicate multiple with the same transposition. No other transformations like rotation possible.
Complex way: Use effects -> distort & transform -> transform to get more duplication options. Problem come up when scaling within a grouped object since only an effect is applied to an object and no new objects were created. Use objekt -> transform look (only know the german “Aussehen umwandeln”) to transform to a path.
Defining roundness of round rectangle corners
When selecting the round rectangle tool there is no menu item to change the roundess of the corners. This stupid parameter only gets visible when klicking once on the canvas ( NOT creating an object by draging, just click). I found not solutions of how to change roundess when the object is already created. Visio has this functionality
Using Visio Icons in Illustrator
Since Visio 2007 its possible to export Visio vector graphics to indesign by just copy paste with STRG+C/STRG+V. Very handsome feature since its possible to change color and everything else in illustrator
Change Roundness of discrete poly line (e.g for a faked line chart )
Draw a new poly line with several edges. Use Effect -> Stylize -> Round Corners do define the radius of the corners. For me Smoothed/interpolated lines often look in a diagram.
Some more Illustrator tricks and tutorials i found helpful http://del.icio.us/_yak/illustrator
There are basically approximated and interpolated curves.
http://www.vrvis.at/vr/cgr4/slides/CGR4-2002-KurvenEtc.pdf
For modelling parameterized curves using controlpoints some algorithms are Bezier and Catmull rom spline .
Basic information for curve interpolation linear and polynomial can be found in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpolation
See also splines such as the catmull rom spline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_Hermite_spline
For building Swing based application one might seriously have a look at the mature JGoodies libraries
JGoodies Bindings - for leveraging MVC based SW design by loose coupling domain logic such as jabva beans to Swing gui components
JGoodies Looks - with this library the Swing gui will also look good
JGoodies Forms - definite way to go to avoid Swings dull layout managers and easy and consistently place JComponents in a GUI window
http://www.jgoodies.com/articles/
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Other projects that also features enhanced GUI elements and look and feel is listet here
http://www.tutego.com/java/additional-java-swing-components.htm
Jeder freut sich wenn er beschenkt wird. (Passiv) Keiner freut sich wenn er schenkt (Aktiv) Woher zur Hölle das Geschenk nehmen (Reaktiv), wenn man Bemühen an den Tag legt ein zum Charakter der Person passendes zu finden, aber die Zeit/Kosten/Nutzen Rechnung sich einfach nicht einstellen will. (Aggressiv)
Um dem entgegenzuwirken hier meine Überlegungen, Ideen, erhaltene und geschenkte Geschenke inklusive Anforderungsanalyse
Anmerkung: Diese Liste mit Dont’s , Faupaxs und Fettnäpfchen ist nur stark generalisierte Sichtweise. Ist man sich sicher, dass die Persönlichkeitsstruktur des beschenkten gefestigt ist und er auch Spass versteht, kann auch diese Liste als Anregung im künstlerischen Sinne dienen.
Das perfekte Geschenk
Das beste Geschenke ist meist personalisiert und selbst produziert. Sehr gute Geschenke lösen beim Beschenkten oft das Stockholm Syndrom aus und der erhoffte Effekt einer Verstärkung der sozialen Bindung tritt ein. Diese These gilt vor allem im zwischengeschlechtlichen Bereich.
Bücher
Musik
Selbstgemachtes
Misc
Verrückte Ideen
(K) Klemens
(U) Ulli
(M) Mike
(S) Sophie
(J) Julian
Since we have none its a good idea to expose it even more! These apps show real time content from web 2.0 apps visualized on google maps.
http://www.streetviewr.com/
http://flickrvision.com/
http://twittervision.com/
My personal jesus just visualizes text blobs
http://www.mytinyjesus.com/
Ist es besser 30 zu sein und auszusehen wie 40 oder 40 zu sein und auszusehen wie 30 ?
Auf die Frage “Was sind sie von Beruf?” und die darauffolgende Antwort “Maskottchen eines Eishockeyklubs” kann man sich nicht kein Gelächter erwarten.
Event Handling in Action Script for Flash and Flex is can be quite challenging if you do not get enough information of what events are available from the offline manual.
AS reference in flash says:
Some event object properties are defined in the W3C specification but aren’t implemented in version 2 of the Adobe Component Architecture. Every event object has the properties listed in the table below. Some events have additional properties defined, and if so, the properties are listed in the event’s entry.
Adobe Action Script Articles - Introduction to event handling in ActionScript 3.0
W3C specification - Dom Events
Additonally
Debugging and Logging in Flash works like this
http://broadcast.artificialcolors.com/index.php?m=20040401
There are a lots of tools to build rich media web applications with actionscript and flash. While Adobe Flash itself has a very basic editor without code completion some other IDEs and even compilers look promising:
Misc
IDEs
HTML JS Flash Detection and Embed Tool - SWF Object
Working with unmanaged COM dlls in .NET can be achieved by converting the existing Type Library to a new .NET dll that is basically creating a wrapper for COM.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tt0cf3sx(VS.80).aspx
Additionally when working with IExplorer Automation project from codeproject I needed to do the following to get the mshtml.dll to run, that is not included in .Net redistribution package.
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/automatinginternetexplore.asp
Tip ! - Visual Studio ClickOnce only installes to User Directory, make a seperate MSI Version with all dependencies