Yearly Archives: 2014

Setting JSF components conditionally read-only through custom components.

Introduction There are a number of different reasons why you would want to disable input for sections of a page. Most obviously is the case where information should be readonly, pending certain conditions – perhaps access roles, perhaps something as

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Unity on OSX, seeing everything.

Introduction As I journey down this Unity-fying road, I weave together many strands left behind by those adventurers that have come before me. That’s a nice way of saying that I stick together pieces of code found on n00b boards.

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Flocking Vectors in Unity

Introduction (aka, those flocking Vectors) Those flocking Vectors. How I grow to hate them. Hate’s a strong word – how they irk me from time to time. But occasionally they come together to form something quite beautiful – especially (as

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MOO Introduction and Digging for Coders

Introduction A MOO – what is it anyways? MOOs are the grand-daddies of the MMORPGs so enjoyed / despised by millions of people every day on this planet. MMORPGs are incredibly difficult to create, due to the graphical and engine

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PrimeFaces – where are my widgets?

Widget for var ‘Widget for var ‘dlg’ not available! The Tears Does that fuel you with a deep, burning rage? Widgets not being available are insanely frustrating, especially because deep down you know it’s going to be because of a

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Extracting Values from a JSF UIComponent

Pulling a value off of a component – sounds easy enough? Well, it is, but there’s a little gotcha that BalusC was kind enough to explain for me. The UIComponent provides a .getAttributes() that returns, as expected, a map containing the

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PrimeFaces commandButton update issues

The Problem I’ve recently been working with some PrimeFaces components. In general they’ve been fairly awesome to use, but either I’ve been looking for documentation in all the wrong places or they aren’t documented very well. The PrimeFaces commandButton is, by

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Database upgrades from jBPM 5.4 to jBPM 6

Introduction I’ve recently had to convert a currently in-use production system running in jBPM 5.4 to jBPM 6. The jBPM 6 team did make an attempt to make the upgrade process fairly easy by ensuring that they only added columns

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REST service GZIP encoding support for Spring and Android Annotations

Introduction We’re working on an Android application that will be largely community based, so there’s a lot of information going back and forwards. Our target phones are extremely low-tech though – Android 2.3 and Edge are the platform we’re aiming

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