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Ramblings to do with software and computer/gadget related things.
There are many things to consider when you have a webapp that dynamically generates reports and that generation takes a while. This article is about giving the user some feedback that their report is being processed and hiding that message once the report has completely downloaded.
This is a followup to the article Gracefully handling inherently slow webapp actions
Java Locale String nonsense
07 MayLocale strings should be fairly simple, there's nice ISO standards covering this stuff. Yet despite all their good work in the last few years, the Java team has managed to confuse matters and make life awkward when it comes to something basic like this.
Sometimes you need to check in Javascript if you're running on an Apple device (or some other specific hardware platform). You'd like to check that logic works via your dev machine, rather than needing the actual devices. Here's how to alter the hardware platform Firefox reports itself running on.
Jmeter with RSA Tokens
07 MarHow to use Jmeter to test websites behind RSA SecurID tokens, by requesting the token at the start of a test suite.
New Java Sorting Algorithm
07 MarI present a sorting algorithm I believe is quite unlike any you have seen before. Also one you will probably hope to never see again.