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importance of standards

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

importance of standards:
ibm seeks to control the java standard so they chose to partner with bea. iN this partnership they seek to create what is called the Java Community Process. it is their own java standard independent of SUn. java controls the standard at this point and so it is ahead of the release of every product and ibm has to wait for each change of the standard to release there products. ibm is much bigger than sun and they cannot compete. suns answer is to release java as open source.

java convert string to boolean

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Boolean.parseBoolean("string")

radio button must have a name

a radio button must have a name or else it won't be clickable

how to get a variable from anywhere in a web applclication

in a web application you can get any variable globally by setting a session variable

JavaScript number validation

document.form_name.input_name.value.match(/^\d+$/)

can be used to return the input value, or null if it is not a number

if servlet classes are undefined in eclipse

Friday, December 08, 2006

tomcat libraries are not properly referenced

for server library go to server and point to tomcat the folder

if eclipse has error java.lang.object cannot be found

jre is not defined.

to fix go to java buildpath in eclipse and add library

Javascript change display style

Friday, December 01, 2006

must use only one equal sign and not two

for example

tog.style.visibility='hidden';

note: if statement mostly only uses ==

Labels: Technology

Turn On Speech Recognition in windows xp

1.	Put the Office XP CD-ROM into the drive.
2.	Click Start, click Control Panel, click Add/Remove Programs, select Microsoft Office XP, and click the Change button.
3.	Click Add or Remove Features and then click Next.
4.	This will reveal the installation options dialog show above in Figure 1.
5.	Expand Alternative User Input, click Speech, and then click Update.

After you have installed the SRE, you should open Microsoft Word and enable speech recognition.

To enable speech recognition in Microsoft Word

•	On the Tools menu, click Speech as shown

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