Cool tooltip of the day: Log4e

There are times when you find a class in your code base which some Muppet has created a class file which  is full of logging to System.out sooner than Log4j.

Well don't panic!

Using Log4E you can re-factor your class in an instance to use Log4j ... and your problem goes away.

To install see: http://log4e.jayefem.de/content/view/3/2/ and install the free or the Pro version.

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Cool Tip of the day - An online barcode generator

A 2-d barcode for this site.

If you want one of those neat little 2-d barcodes for your web site or project, then pop over to http://www.barcode-generator.org/.

It includes many of the most popular formats for barcodes, including QR codes as seen on this page; 2-d data matrices and EAN which appears on most retail products.

Cool tool tip of the day: Rant and Rave

Gathering customer feed back can assist and drive sales.
According to Rapide Communications who produce the "RantandRave" product:

"The most important aspect of capturing feedback is timing. Response rates increase 10% to 12% and accuracy increases by 40% simply by requesting feedback straight after service delivery."

I interviewed with these guys and from the research I did their product sounds very useful.

http://rantandrave.com/feedback/capturing-customer-feedback/

Cool tip of the day: Don't trust SSL

How good is SSL?

Not so great according to HAK5.org.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmtkJKHFX5Q

The key point on this video is don't be a n00b!
Check for real https and use SSH tunneling!

Cool tip of the day: Ebuild

EBuild is an ant based generic build system for Java projects developed in Eclipse.

it can build almost any Eclipse java project with very minimal configuration.
it automatically figures out dependencies and build order based on the .classpath Eclipse files.

http://ebuild.firefang.net/

The project is about 5 years old and hasn't been under development for some time (not that it needs it).

I am currently working on this project with its creator to add a couple of new features. (watch this space) 

Project on Sourceforge: A generic ANT build script. http://sourceforge.net/projects/antbuildscript/

All you java developers ... do you find your self looking to create a build script to package up your beautiful code?
No?
Are you sure you are a developer?
I was packing up my other project (Beanmapper) and I though this might be handy to other people.

project on source forge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/antbuildscript/

However you really can't use this project with out using : ebuild a cute ant tool.

Cool tip of the day - Bitnami Stacks

When you need a LAMP stack or a Tomcat Stack for development ... what do you do?

Yes you go trawling around the net looking for all the bits and how to glue them together.
Well don't just go to http://bitnami.org/stacks and download their all in one stack.

My favorite is the tomcat stack!