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Getting a background texture behind a UITableView
In many apps when you viewing the top of a UITableView and you pull down you get one of three things: a plain white background (i.e. YouTube), a pull to refresh (i.e. twitter), or a textured or differently colored background … Continue reading
Mac OS X Lion Clean Install Quirks
I decided to do a clean install on my development laptop with Lion to clean out the cruft. Not that it really needed to be done, but I was curious to see if there were any discernible differences between the … Continue reading
Selective Site Mirroring with wget
Since Cloudera doesn’t seem to support an rsync server for us to mirror against, I had to resort to using wget to mirror their CDH distribution. To save some time for those who are attempting to do something similar, here’s … Continue reading
Create a Linux Boot ISO image to start via Kickstart
Getting tired of creating new VM’s, and don’t want to clone for a particular reason but want them standardized? Easy. By creating a boot image that immediately starts a kickstart installation, you can completely automate creating a VM regardless of … Continue reading
OpenAM Apache Web Agent
Make sure you set the Encode Cookie Value to Yes or True. If it’s not able to be modified, it’s an inherited setting that you will need to change. If you don’t, you’ll get a 500 error once a successful … Continue reading
Update Postgres in Ubuntu
The Postgres website download page doesn’t do a great job of documenting how to keep PG up to the latest release. Even for those of us who are using 10.10, the standard repositories still point to older 8.X versions. To … Continue reading
Regex Recipes
Since I went through the time to create these, I might as well document a few of them for myself and anyone else who might be looking for it. As I refine and author more, I’ll add them here. Phone … Continue reading
Install VirtualBox Guest Additions on CentOS 5.x
This has been documented many times before, but for some reason installing VirtualBox guest additions on CentOS is a pain. To install them: yum install kernel-devel gcc either ln -s /usr/src/kernel/[current version] /usr/src/linux or export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernel/[current version] Then the usual … Continue reading
Really Using OpenSSO with Salesforce
This subject has been covered many times before, but one thing that is not easily identified in ANY of them is that for this to work properly, you must be using a version of OpenSSO express, not enterprise. You’ll bang … Continue reading
SalesForce.com JAX-WS & Netbeans
The process for using SalesForce.com (SFDC) webservices in Netbeans isn’t as intuitive as you would think. Most of the SFDC documentation examples are built using Apache Axis vis-a-vis JAX-WS. The good news is that it’s possible to get Netbeans (and … Continue reading