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iPhone Dev: Adding the slide transition between views

The slide transition that’s used in the navigation controller is not a standard iPhone SDK transition. To add the slide transition (from right) between different UIViews use the following code //1. Add the QuatzCore Framework from library to the Frameworks … Continue reading

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Toll free bridges and the iPhone

Good description of toll free bridges (data types in the Core Foundation framework (Carbon) and the Foundation framework (Cocoa) that can be used interchangeably) in a Stack Overflow question.

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Where is the jboss.bind.address configured?

From ConfigureServerPorts jboss.bind.address is configured using the “-b” option to the JBoss startup script (run.sh or run.bat in the bin directory). For example, run -b 0.0.0.0 enables jboss to listen for connections on all IP addresses of the machine (if … Continue reading

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View the JBoss JNDI Namespace

You can view the JNDI entries in JBoss by 1 – Browse to http://localhost/jmx-console 2 – Click “service=JNDIView” 3 – Invoke the “list()” operation Notes: 1 – This is for JBoss 4.2.3.GA 2 – You must have the jmx-console installed.

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Shrink a VMWare Fusion Image

I run VMWare Fusion on my Mac. The Windows XP image is 13 GB and the VM disk is set to 30 GB max on 2 GB boundaries. I began to run out of disk space on my Mac and … Continue reading

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MySQL XA datasource and JBoss

For some reason, I had a really hard time finding how to setup an XA datasource in JBoss for MySQL. Below is the contents of the file mysql-xa-ds.xml. jdbc/DataSource jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/ordb com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlXADataSource root password true org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.vendor.MySQLExceptionSorter org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.vendor.MySQLValidConnectionChecker 1 10 10 mySQL

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Wireshark, WPA2, and MacBook Pro

It took me a couple of hours of playing with settings to get the WPA2 decode feature of Wireshark to work. I had to do the following Navigate to Edit > Preferences > Protocols > IEEE 802.11 Select Enable Decryption … Continue reading

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Google Admits "Data is the Intel Inside"O'Reilly Radar

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IBM recorded demonstration portfolioAlbert T. Wong

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Static on the Dream PhoneO'Reilly Radar

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