Usually when you begin to write any sort of application that requires visual flare, animations are always on the cards.
Since WPF and JavaFX (and Apple’s Cocoa Touch) use a similar animation framework of a declarative nature, meaning, that the developer defines elements at time steps and then the framework works out the rest, it becomes [...]
Up until recently I have been playing around with JavaFX getting my hands dirty on some of the finer points of the FX Script language. But I recently realised that I have not really been using JavaFX with Java…but rather just JavaFX itself.
In real world development where timelines are important, money matters, and efficiency is [...]
I have been trying to use the Quickbooks SDK to integrate an ASP.NET 2.0 application with quickbooks premier 2006/2007 edition.
So far I have not had much luck, the QuickBooks SDK is very detailed and the doco is almost too much to really read in one (or five) session(s).
I have the full intention of posting my [...]
Hello all, I have recently had the task of creating/updating/searching and deleting appointments in an outlook calendar by using WebDav.
This was proven to me to be a difficult task. There was very little documentation around this and not alot of people who tried to help me. So I figured it out by putting together may [...]
I have fianlly got around to figuring out how to connect to a sql server 2005 using a JDBC in JSF. Here is how my code look:
import java.sql.*;try{ java.lang.Class.forName(“com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver”);Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(“jdbc:sqlserver://localhost;databaseName=dbName1;user=user;password=password”);}catch(Exception ex){ System.out.println(ex.getMessage());}
the line:
java.lang.Class.forName(“com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver”);
will register the JDBC driver that I downloaded from Microsoft from the site:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/jdbc.mspx
so that your DriverManager class can use it [...]
I finally got around to getting my teeth into JSF. I like it so far. Its so very different to .NET (which I have been programming in for quite some time now).
I successfuly made a database connection to SQL server 2005 last night and got the results I was looking for, so Im happy.
Details about [...]
Hello all, welcome to the world of Mark! This is my first blog ever!