Archive for the ‘software’ Category

Look Ma, no files! Portable object persistence

Friday, August 19th, 2011

Originally posted at JavaProgrammingForums.com Where can I store my application data? I see a lot of people starting threads because they're struggling to persist (often) a little bit of data from one run of their Java application to the next. The offered solutions are often some kind of jiggery-pokery involving java.io.File. Not ...

Trying out JBullet: IntBuffer is not direct

Saturday, May 14th, 2011

[caption id="attachment_1271" align="alignright" width="150" caption="JBullet Basic Demo"][/caption] I've been simulating the movement of a line-following robot in plain old Java recently, but wanted to try a few problems that need physics, so I downloaded JBullet - a Java port of the Bullet  Physics Library. It needs LWJGL - the Lightweight Java ...

Java console “Content-Encoding: null” message on loading applet

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

I thought at first glance this might be an error in an website I'm working on, so looked into it a little bit further - turns out it's nothing at all. I turned on request debugging in Spinneret and could see that the Sun Java plugin in FireFox was sending the ...

Spider.my shipping modules v0.3 for osCommerce, Zen Cart (Pos Malaysia)

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Updates are coming a bit fast at the moment as various shortcomings are identified and a bugs squashed. The modules are only a few days old, but I've rushed them out in the wake of Pos Malaysia's website changes breaking the old modules. [caption id="attachment_1098" align="alignright" width="242" caption="osCommerce / Zen Cart ...

osCommerce shipping module for spider.my (Pos Malaysia rates) pre-release

Monday, January 17th, 2011

If you've been caught out by Pos Malaysia's recent site updates and now can't quote for international deliveries from your shop, this module is functional at one Malaysian online shop. Pos Malaysia's update has come while I've been re-vamping the shipping quotation back-end and so I only have Pos Malaysia ...