Author Archives: Brian Lavender

About Brian Lavender

I like to program in C++, Java, and Pascal. I have an admiration for languages like Pascal, Ada, and Eiffel. I work a lot with GNU/Linux systems.

Cereal Hack Raffle Application

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Brian Lavender

Willow Schlanger and I participated in the Cereal Hack this last weekend. We built a Raffle application. We both worked in parallel. Willow built a version in PHP and I did mine in Java. Willow’s app was the most functional … Continue reading →

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Running JBoss Application Server

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Brian Lavender

This is about the JBoss Application Server, commonly known as JBoss AS. I have some posts that need the JBoss application server. If you visit the JBoss website, you will notice many projects that fall under it. Make sure you … Continue reading →

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Maven

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Brian Lavender

I have some projects that use Maven. Here are the steps to get maven. Go to the Maven website. There is Maven 2 and Maven 3. Get the Maven 3 download. The name of the download is the following: apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz … Continue reading →

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Changed comment policy

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Brian Lavender

In order to comment, you have to be registered now. I thought the re-Captcha would cut out spam comments, but either there are good re-Captcha crackers out there, or a lot of people looking for trackback links. I am assuming … Continue reading →

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Some code would be nice!

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Brian Lavender

We shall see if this turns to code. 1 2 3 4 5 public class Hello { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello World!"); } } public class Hello { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello World!"); } … Continue reading →

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Using Flex SDK on Linux

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Brian Lavender

I just ran into a great post for integrating the Flex SDK with Eclipse. Adobe makes a free software version of the Flex SDK. When you look around for getting started with Flex Builder, just about everything points to Flex … Continue reading →

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Detachable Models with Wicket (Attempt one)

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Brian Lavender

Here is the Code. To run it, unzip it. You need Java and Maven. To run it and view it, just issue mvn jetty:run . Point your browser to http://localhost:8080 . You can also import it into Eclipse using File->Import->Existing … Continue reading →

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Bind to your model better with Wicket!

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Brian Lavender

In this post, I still follow the Wicket in Action book, yet continue with the process of breaking out the concept into one simple project. This post takes the model (Customer object) and ties it to the page using the … Continue reading →

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OpenOffice BASE and HSQLDB in server mode

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Brian Lavender

The sample database for this post can be downloaded and used with GNU/Linux. It can also be adapted to Windows and Mac. OpenOffice Base uses hsqldb as its back end database in embedded mode. If you are a developer like … Continue reading →

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Callbacks and Wicket

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Brian Lavender

I don’t believe starting with Anonymous Inner Classes (AIC) is a good way to get started when doing event driven programming. For this post, I took the Cheesr application from the Wicket in Action book and removed the AICs and … Continue reading →

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