UPS Integration: SimpleUPS

UPS has a decent size API to integrate with. In fact, it’s kind of a pain. There are over 300 pages of documentation and it can be a bit of … Continue Reading →

How to access a service layer on a Jersey JSON object

On a recent project I was working on I wanted to take a JSON POST and map it to an object using Jersey. But I wanted that object to not … Continue Reading →

Spring configuration with XML over Annotations

As any developer knows who is trying to setup Spring without using XML, it’s not the easiest thing to find good examples. Spring has relied on XML so much that … Continue Reading →

Package com.mysql.management failed to load dependency

While working on a Java project using Maven to manage dependencies I ran into the error: Could not find artifact com.sun.jdmk:jmxtools:jar:1.2 in maven2-repository.dev.java.net This is because I was including the com.mysql.management … Continue Reading →

How to: Yii namespaced forms with clean field IDs/Names in v1.1

I’ve been working on a series of modules for Yii and a few days ago decided it would be good to implement namespaces within the application.  I won’t go into … Continue Reading →

TinyMCE Spellcheck Implmentation with Spring MVC

I recently added a Java implementation of TinyMCE Spellchecker plugin to a web application which utilitizes Spring MVC.  I used Andrey’s guide to make this happen.  His instructions worked great … Continue Reading →

Difference in STRING.equals(“foo”) vs STRING == “foo”

I’ve been working on learning java and today I was performing a string comparison shown below when my IDE showed a little light bulb icon with a “!” on it. … Continue Reading →

MySQL Backup Pro

A lot of web sites are hosted on shared servers via web hosting services like Hostgator where a single web server may have a hundred or more customer accounts hosted on … Continue Reading →

PHP file upload MIME type is unreliable

I ran into an odd issue this week where a PDF being uploaded by a user through the latest Firefox wasn’t properly detected as a PDF.  The “type” showed a … Continue Reading →

What to do if your server gets hacked…

I read this elsewhere and thought it was just so good I had to post it.  I’m not able to determine the exact source or I would provide a link … Continue Reading →