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 very simple remote paging listview that retrieves each page of data from an Oracle database table. As well as describing the [...]
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Installing Mercurial with Apache
02Apr08If you’ve been following one of these guides explaining how to configure Mercurial with Apache you may have encountered the following error…
TypeError: ‘hgwebdir’ object is not callable
There may be a number of scenarios under which this error can happen but in my case it was because I was using an incompatible version [...]
Flexible and all as the Linux operating system is there are a few drawbacks that make the experience less than perfect. One of the main reasons I didn’t go Linux 100% of the time was that there was always one or two applications that I couldn’t live without that only ran on Windows. The main [...]
Installing Mythbuntu 7.10
26Oct07Mythbuntu is “an Ubuntu derivative focused upon setting up a standalone MythTV system similar to Knoppmyth or Mythdora”. The last time I installed MythTV I did it on a standard Ubuntu desktop installation. The problem with this is that as well as ending up with a load of software you don’t really need you have [...]
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 often it’s useful to see the actual text in this field. One way to do this is to give the user the [...]
