Archive for the ‘Useful’ Category
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
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I bought the LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 recently and was a bit disappointed to find that it didn't come with printed instructions to build Alpha Rex - the robot on the box art. I searched for the instructions all over the ...
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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 ...
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Friday, July 29th, 2011
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I've been re-jigging and polishing up some of the leftover code from spider.my and am now fairly happy with the way Shipping-Quote.net keeps its currency exchange rates up to date. I wanted to add another rates source just to fill ...
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Sunday, July 17th, 2011
After staring at other people's solutions to this problem for a day or so, I finally realised what I was doing wrong and thought I'd better share it, just in case you also fail to see for several hours how you caused the problem. I have a page that works ...
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
We needed to send a couple of small documents by post and realised - while we are in the 'No Fixed Abode' phase of our Keep-It-Simple-Stupid plan to move back to the UK - that another thing we don't have in our luggage is a printer. We're currently using a ...
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