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are these samples/tutorials up to date to work with javafx 1.2?

2009-06-16T09:31:00.032+08:00

due to the changes in version 1.2, a few samples/tutorials made on the web before version 1.2 will not work as described. here are a few of these.

if one follow the sample, yahoo webservice + map navigation, it works with pre 1.2 version. however the key events does not work with version 1.2. i found out that you need to set the focusTraversable attribute to true in order to make it work, like


/* Image of the map from Yahoo WS */
var imview = ImageView {
    cache: true
    translateX: bind x1
    translateY: bind y1
    image: bind im
    cursor: Cursor.MOVE
    focusTraversable: true
    /* Navigation from Mouse event*/
    onMouseDragged: function( e: MouseEvent ):Void {
    ...
    }
    /* Navigation from key event */
    onKeyPressed: function( e: KeyEvent ):Void {
    ...
    }
...
};

the media browser tutorial is not up to date. the language change 'commas are required in sequences' makes its presence in a few tasks in the media browser tutorial. for example, module 1 task 4, you need to make the following change to make it work:


    /**
    * CustomNode requires a create function. For now, we just return
    * an instance of ImageView. Later we can add more features.
    */
    override function create(): Node {
        return
        Group {
  
            content: [
                mediaBackground,
                frame,
                mediaGroup,
                text
            ]
        };
    }

in the same module 1 task 4 and a few others which depend on MediaComponent calss, you will get the 'deprecated interface class file' error. this thread in the forum discusss this issue. till this moment, i have not found a update to make this tutorial work in javafx 1.2. the error that i got with module 1 task 4 look like this in netbeans:
```
error: Deprecated interface class file: MediaComponent$Intf.class. Please recompile source file.
D:\JavaFX\module01-task04\src\mediabrowser\Main.fx:36: cannot find symbol
symbol  : class MediaComponent
```

while running module 1 task 2, you will get the 'Exception in thread"AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.StackOverflowError' error when you click on a thumbnail. see this forum thread for solution.

javafx 1.2 blogging contest

2009-06-12T11:01:00.008+08:00

because of the contest, i decide to start blogging again.

for those who are interested, get more info from this site. one should also discover the new features in version 1.2, contributed by Inyoung Cho (Java Technology Consultant, Sun Microsystems).

here is list of javafx resources that i found helpful:

JavaFX 1.2 Top 10 and Migration Guide

javafx forums

javafx blog

JavaFX 1.2 Refcard

Getting a Jump Start in JavaFX 1.2 - Excerpt from Pro JavaFX Book Chapter 1

next i will write about my experience running some tutorials in javafx 1.2.

barcamp malaysia 2008 day one - afternoon session

2008-07-27T01:07:00.022+08:00

i was in the following tracks in the afternoon session.

mobile futures
henry wong presented the mobile futures in the eyes of nokia. he mentioned that internet browsing has become important in the mobile space. voice traffic will be commoditiced. he was promoting nokia's ovi web portal and its services. in the track, a lot of questions about symbian and tablet devices were being raised.

how to become 25% more productive: essential free tools for the modern office
definitely this track is the most productive one. james took only half an hour to finish his presentation. here are some of his advises: have one and only one task list, zero inbox, use portable applications, email's 2nd chance rule. he actually showed how to do this using outlook.

introducing aggressive web development
mikko? advocated that the 3 things were essential to practice aggressive web development, namely positive mindset, build momentum, and learn from mistakes. he talked about the development, team and you triad. he discussed the rules in order to practice aggressive web development. in the near future, there will be learning materials available to barcamp malaysia participants. just visit his website: aggressionzen.com to get them.

interesting web
peetam shared a lot of url that he had collected during his travel thru various countries. here are some of the urls:

mixi.jp
nvivos.es
qatarliving.com
kizasi.jp
ljplus.ru
meetpretty.com
redbus.in
babytree.cn
e-xecutive.ru
phuno.net
dingbus.com
checkpod.jp
bedposted.com

summary

there were over two hundred participants attended this event. there were some walkin participants. registration was quick and administrative support was good. transition between tracks was smooth. the place was crowed but participants were able to around freely. except there was some problem with the air-cond in the lecture room, everything else went well. the food was great and no shortage. what can i complain? as it is all free.

stay tune for more photos, which will be uploaded soon.

barcamp malaysia 2008 day one - morning session

2008-07-27T00:50:00.023+08:00

i took the lrt and arrive at xtrain on time at about 9am. i registered and collected my tag and bag. the goodie bag had a few things: 2 t-shirts (see pictures below), a writing notepad and a table calendar. at that time, the warewolf game was going on in one of the room. the warewolves won to end the game. see below for yourselves the warewolves of the day. breakfast was served till 10am.

warewolves

t-shirts

i participated in three topics in this morning session. the following are some details as far as i can remember.

google android
topic discussed was: android application deconstructed, under the hood of android vm, api building block, android lost in space?, career with android, and some demos.

ria development via flex + jror
chee seng touched on flex and other ria framework. he showed a demo writing a simple blog application using flex and jror.

monetizing youtube?
this is one of the more interesting track so far. roni talked about monetizing youtube thru placing some form of advertlets in a movie/video stream. in his demo, he overlaid a image over a pattern during video capturing process. and this is cool! there were a lot of questions from the participants.

barcamp malaysia 2008 - launching ceremony

2008-07-27T00:27:00.015+08:00

yesterday (just over midnite) was the day one of barcamp malaysia 2008. during lunch break, khailee did a simple launching for the first barcamp organised malaysia. due to whatever reason, the launch was delayed to the lunch break. the organiser thanked the participants and especially the sponsors. some participants suggested to organise twice the number of participants in the next barcamp malaysia. and all sponsors or the representatives are acknowleded and invited to give a few words about the events. here are some of the photos taken. i am sorry if i have some of the names wrong.

khailee initiated the launch.

jam

henry wong from nokia.

advertlets rep

ganesh from mol.

kamal from zeocity

mohan from logistics solutions

xtrain rep

a participant's comment

barcamp malaysia 2008 day one

2008-07-27T00:20:00.004+08:00

today is the first day of barcamp 2008 in malaysia. and it was fun. for those who can not make it, you guys miss the fun. this is today's tracks:

running jmsexample

2008-06-04T11:23:00.008+08:00

yesterday, i was studying the codes from this blog: spring 2.0's jms improvements. it was a eclipse project setup, so i have no problem running it inside eclipse. but i decided to setup so that i can run it in dos environment. i made one ant script and another batch command file. now i can run it in two ways:

(1)
pathsetup.cmd
java jmsexample.Bootstrap

(2)
ant run

the ant script as follows:


<project default="all">
  <property name="obj-dir" location="classes" />
  <property name="lib-dir" location="lib" />
  <property name="jar-dir" location="jar" /> 
  <property name="src-dir" location="src/main/java/jmsexample" />

  <path id="classpath">
 <fileset dir="${lib-dir}" includes="**/*.jar" />
  </path>
  
  <target name="init">
    <mkdir dir="${obj-dir}/jmsexample" />
 <mkdir dir="${jar-dir}" />
  </target>
  <target name="clean-init">
    <delete dir="${obj-dir}" />
 <delete dir="${jar-dir}" />
  </target>

  <target name="compile" depends="init">
    <javac srcdir="${src-dir}"
           destdir="${obj-dir}">
     <classpath refid="classpath"/>
    </javac>
  </target>
  <target name="clean-compile">
    <delete>
      <fileset dir="${obj-dir}" includes="**/*.class" />
    </delete>
  </target>

  <target name="jar" depends="compile">
 <copy todir="${obj-dir}/jmsexample">
  <fileset dir="${src-dir}">
   <include name="example-config.xml" />
  </fileset>
 </copy>
    <jar destfile="${jar-dir}/jmsexample.jar"
         basedir="${obj-dir}"
         />
  </target>

  <target name="clean-jar">
    <delete file="${jar-dir}/jmsexample.jar" />
  </target>
  <target name="run" depends="jar">
    <java classname="jmsexample.Bootstrap" fork="true"
    classpath="${jar-dir}/jmsexample.jar">
    <classpath refid="classpath"/>
    </java>
  </target>

  <target name="all" depends="run"/>

  <target name="clean" depends="clean-init"/>
</project>

the batch command file as follows:


@echo off

set CLASSPATH=classes
for %%f in (lib\*.jar) do set CLASSPATH=!CLASSPATH!;%%f

set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_09
set ANT_HOME=D:\TOOLS\apache-ant-1.6.5

set PATH=%PATH%;%ANT_HOME%\bin;%JAVA_HOME%\bin;

some batch file tricks

2008-05-28T14:14:00.003+08:00

look at this and this.

what is i-card

2008-05-27T16:23:00.001+08:00

higins project - an information card framework to integrate identity, profile and social relationship information across multiple sites, applications and devices.

starting usb webserver

2008-05-26T10:29:00.003+08:00

i have problem starting the usb webserver earlier. and found the solution from this site. add the loadfile line solve the problem.

east java trip

2008-05-16T11:41:00.017+08:00

few weeks back, i visited east java for a few days. we visited surabaya, mt bromo

day 1:
airsia flight ak 912 was delayed, we took off from lcct about 10 something. touched down at surabay abt 2pm. had lunch there. arrange transport for 4 days 3 nights which cover mt bromo, kawah ijen and back to surabaya. costed rp2,000,000. stayed over night at lava view, camara lawang and dinner there. live band performance was good.

day 2:
started journey at 4am to penanjakan for the sunrise. there were stores near the view point, selling food and drinks, camera battery and jacket rental. then we left for mt bromo. at the car park at mt bromo, the local will try to get you to use their pony service for the short walk to the crater. we decided to walk instead. were followed all the way to the bottom of the crater.

back to lava view for breakfast and rested for a while. then visited two other place near around lava view. the trip penanjakan, mt bromo and two other places costed us extra rp450,000. then free and easy time around.

day 3:
free and easy morning, breakfast and did some shopping at lava view. checked out and travel towards ijen at about noon. we stopped at pasir putih for lunch. it was a long ride and the road condition was bad at certain stretches. we checked in at catimor homestay and had dinner.

day 4:
started at 4am, drove and took a 3km trek to kawah ihen. the trek was pleasant. there were locals carrying sulphuric rocks along the way. on way back to catimor, stopped by a small waterfall. after breakfast, we traveled back towards surabay. again we had lunch at pasir putih but at the different restaurant. did some sourvenior shopping at the shops around there. before arriving surabaya, we bought some leather goods. make accommodation at ibis.

day 5:
had breakfast at ibis and shopping at ramayana. then checked out left for airport. airasia flight ak 917 again delayed. left surabata abt 6pm and arrived at lcct abt 10pm

expenditure (2 pax):
air fare/airport tax - rm260
food and accommodation - rm300
transport - rm60
others - rm300

having pdf viewing problem with firefox?

2008-05-02T10:13:00.003+08:00

if you have problem opening pdf file with your firefox browser, check out this firefox support page.

better builds with maven

2008-04-30T14:06:00.003+08:00

i have been looking up and down the net to get the codes for the book "better builds with maven". and finally i found those here

wedding dinner venue map

2008-02-15T15:56:00.006+08:00

i am getting married on the coming march 8. the venue of dinner is restaurant hee lai ton in puchong. near the restaurant, the parking spaces are limited. double parking is common during dinner time during weekend. you may have to park a bit farther, but within walking distance.

for direction, refer to the following map or search the net.

can you save a send draft in draft folder with gmail?

2008-01-15T11:01:00.000+08:00

i want to send an email to a group of people. however, the body text and list of attachments are slightly different. i want to save some typing. i would want to save a send draft for future editing. at this moment, i can not find this feature with gmail. but i can do this in yahoo mail.

my workaround to achieve this would be: use the sent email for forwarding, change the subject, body text and the list of attachment, where required.

sand fantasy

2008-01-15T10:57:00.000+08:00

a friend of mine emailed me a video clip and followed the trace to this fantastic web site: sand fantasy

there are some very beautifully made video clips on creative sand art for download. go ahead and take a look.

apache axis

2008-01-11T11:34:00.000+08:00

for the pass few weeks, 1 was working with apache axis (axis-1_4). the provided document was good enough for exploring the product. i used the installation and user guide. below is the environment setting:

axisclasspath: C:\Projects\axis-1_4\lib\axis.jar;C:\Projects\axis-1_4\lib\commons-discovery-0.2.jar;C:\Projects\axis-1_4\lib\commons-lo
gging-1.0.4.jar;C:\Projects\axis-1_4\lib\jaxrpc.jar;C:\Projects\axis-1_4\lib\saaj.jar;C:\Projects\axis-1_4\lib\log4j-1.2
.8.jar;C:\Projects\xerces-2_9_1\xml-apis.jar;C:\Projects\xerces-2_9_1\xercesImpl.jar;C:\Projects\axis-1_4\lib\wsdl4j-1.5
.1.jar

java_home:
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_09

and some commands used (with axisclasspath in java classpath):

java org.apache.axis.utils.tcpmon
java samples.userguide.example3.Client
java samples.userguide.example4.Client -lhttp://localhost:8080/axis/services/LogTestService
java org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient list
java org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient deploy.wsdd
java -cp %axisclasspath%;"C:\Projects\axis-1_4\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\classes" org.apache.axis.transport.http.SimpleAxisServer -p 8080

noted that to follow the instructions closely while configuring the soap monitor. copy all the compiled classes of soapmonitorapplet to the root web directory, that is the <server path>/webapp/axis, and not the <server path>/webapp/axis/web-inf/classes (which i assumed). if you do the later you will get the famous "class not found" error.

i am yet to explore all the samples provided.

lsu won bcs title

2008-01-08T14:54:00.001+08:00

yes. lsu won! lsu 38 vs ohio state 24. lsu's second national championship in four years. read the report here.

revisit 'alternatives to mainstream media' sites

2008-01-04T15:28:00.000+08:00

i did a revisit of some of the 'alternative to mainstream media' sites, highlighted by r-age on thursday, november 10 2005. all the sites are still live and some drawing quite a number of hits. below are the sites and the screenshots:

TheCICAK.com

THINK.com.my

XFRESH.com

www.FootyBlog.net

www.Paultan.org

www.LatesGames.net

Mac-Switcher.com

late blog about the first shadow government meeting

2007-12-21T15:08:00.000+08:00

this posting is kind of out dated. the meeting was held last saturday (dec 15, 2007). there were a couple of us who are concern with the future of malaysia.

quite a bit was discussed and a process that how the shadow government works had been tabled and agreed upon. below are some photos takes:

the next meeting will be on tomorrow, dec 22, 2007.

for more info, please head over to citizen think tank

some old numbers

2007-12-21T15:00:00.000+08:00

here are some old numbers that i owned:

7173654 - 5 jalan ss20/6, ss20, 47400 pj
digi 3356559 (mutiara telecom) - 1997 to 1999

word of phobia

2007-12-11T13:43:00.000+08:00

have just learned some words about phobia:

anthrophobia - fear of people or society
claustrophobia - fear of confined space
acrophobia - fear of heights
astraphobia - fear of thunder and lightning
necrophobia - fear of death or dead things
dental phobia - fear of dentists, dental surgery, or teeth
cardiophobia - fear of heart disease
lachanophobia - fear of vegetables
ichthyophobia - fear of fish
arachnephobia or arachnophobia - fear of spider
agoraphobia - fear of leaving home or small familiar 'safe' area

ant script for compiling and running java program

2007-12-10T10:23:00.000+08:00

i am using the following ant script (build.xml) for compiling and running a java standalone program. it was modified from a springframework example available on the net.

ant version used:
Apache Ant version 1.6.5 compiled on June 2 2005

build.xml:
<project name="springexamples" basedir="." default="main">

<property name="src.dir" value="src"/>
<property name="springconf.files" value="resource"/>
<property name="build.dir" value="build"/>
<property name="classes.dir" value="${build.dir}/classes"/>
<property name="jar.dir" value="${build.dir}/jar"/>
<property name="main-class" value="MainApplication"/>
<property name="lib.dir" value="lib"/>

<path id="classpath">
<fileset dir="${lib.dir}" includes="**/*.jar"/>
<path location="${springconf.files}"/>
</path>

<target name="clean">
<delete dir="${build.dir}"/>
</target>

<target name="compile">
<mkdir dir="${classes.dir}"/>
<javac srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="${classes.dir}" classpathref="classpath"/>
</target>

<target name="jar" depends="compile">
<mkdir dir="${jar.dir}"/>
<jar destfile="${jar.dir}/${ant.project.name}.jar" basedir="${classes.dir}">
<manifest>
<attribute name="Main-Class" value="${main-class}"/>
</manifest>
</jar>
</target>

<target name="run" depends="jar">
<java fork="true" classname="${main-class}">
<classpath>
<path refid="classpath"/>
<path location="${jar.dir}/${ant.project.name}.jar"/>
</classpath>
</java>
</target>

<target name="clean-build" depends="clean,jar"/>

<target name="main" depends="clean,run"/>

</project>

other sample:

<project default="compile">
<target name="compile">
<javac srcdir="." />
</target>

<target name="jar" depends="compile">
<jar destfile="hello.jar"
basedir="."
includes="**/*.class"
/>
</target>

<target name="run" depends="jar">
<java classname="hello"
classpath="hello.jar"
fork="true"
/>
</target>
</project>

yet another simpler sample:

<project default="run">

<target name="compile">
<javac srcdir="." />
</target>

<target name="run" depends="compile">
<java classname="prop"
fork="true">
</java>
</target>

</project>

bomb threat at subang parade

2007-12-07T16:40:00.000+08:00

i was dong my few hair at subang parade evening. then was informed to evacuate from the mall due to a bomb threat. i walked out with my hair undone and wait at my car across the road.

minutes (don know how long) later, police and fire brigade arrived. i was hungry and drove thru mcdonald to grab a bite. then went back to check the situation. damn... it was raining the whole nite.

redhat el4 and proliant dl380 g5

2007-11-05T15:02:00.000+08:00

over the weekend, installed redhat el4 on a proliant dl380 g5 server, for gy. it was a rack mounted server. during installation encounter the following problem:

1) the smartstart cd 6.7 does not support redhat, only novell and microsoft servers
2) no floppy disk drive

spending hours try to use usb drive to load the hd driver, it was not successful. instead use an external floppy drive with usb connection. at installation boot prompt, key in linux dd to load the disk driver.

there were 5 hot-swap hard disks, with a hardware raid controller. a total of about 279GB disk space. its linux name is /dev/cciss/c0d0. did a few partitions for swap, /, /root/ /usr, /opt, /data1, ...

the server has 4GB of memory.

the storagework driver was automatic detected and loaded during the installation. the device name is /dev/st0.

however the ethernet driver was missing, thus the devices are not detected. download the driver source from website and no binary image. need to compile with the kernel source. with the package installation applet, installed the development tools package and compiled the driver source. and the four ethernet cards were detected.

configured the network setting and the server is up and connected to the network.

taylors' university college annual dinner & dance 2007

2007-11-01T19:53:00.000+08:00

it was last friday attended the TUC annual dinner & dance 2007. the theme was 'boogie nite'. it was hold at the sunway pyramid convention centre ballroom. the event was out sourced to an event management company, believed it was the first time out sourcing to a company. there were cocktail and games activities (similar to fun fair 's) before the dinner. the food was ok and the mood was good. left right after the dinner, did not know what happen to the dance.

netprint - unix printing to terminal

2007-10-16T16:49:00.000+08:00

decade ago, i worked with a accounting application called maximise. it was developed using informix 4gl in sco unix platform. the application allowed printing to a printer attached to a pc, thru a terminal emulation software. before i forgot, i jotted down the detail as below:

netprint configuration:
width (300)
lenght (66)
device type (3)
command netprint $F

netprint shell script:
#!/bin/sh
if test -r $1
then
echo `^[[5i`
cat $1
echo `^[[4i`

else
echo Filename must exist and be readable.
fi