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Generate PDF with Flying Saucer and iText by adding font files

Get font family from loaded font for selective content formatting

In this post, I would like to show how to load font files and format specific sections of the document at run time, when generating PDF document using Flying Saucer and iText libraries. I will create a String that has a structure of valid XHTML file. The content of String is what going to be generated as a PDF ...

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Enriching Rich Internet Applications with rule-based reasoning

WebRules Firefox add-on by Matthias Tylkowski

I came across a Firefox Add-On today by Matthias Tylkowski, that lets user to modify the browser view of his/her preferred web pages. For example, user can modify the appearance of cnn.com to suit his/her needs. The add-on or the web rules is a JSON-based rule language, where each rule is a JSON object. In ...

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Categories : json, drools, javascript
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Работать будучи студентом в Австралии

Перспективы работы для интернациональных студентов - что светит?

В последнее время участились вопросы по этой теме: А могу ли я то... а могу ли я это... а что можно... и так далее. Я попытаюсь описать реальность поиска работы будучи студентом в Австралии. Я сам был студентом здесь и у меня есть/было много друзей студентов, так что считаю что мое мнение довольно обьективное. В ...

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Happy Chinese New Year

2010 - The Year of the Tiger

I have been inactive for the past several months and haven't posted anything. There were some transitions going on lately in my company, so I have not felt like posting anything nor I was involved in any interesting projects. These days, I am traveling through South East Asia with my girlfriend. I have been ...

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Redefining web applications with AJAX, Servlets and JSON

JSON, Java Servlets and AJAX example

In this article I would like to show how JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and Java servlet can be used together in a little AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) application. To give brief description to those who are not closely familiar with JSON - JSON is a lightweight syntax for representing data, which ...

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Categories : ajax, java, json, servlets, xml, javascript
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You gotta love Linux

Last Friday as I was working, I was asked to get some information from the application logs for a particular period of time. I needed to extract some data and count the results. The given period was last twelve months. Luckily I am working with Linux, so I opened a shell session and typed the following after doing ...

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Rule Engine Stress Testing

Comparing Drools performance to other BRMS

I came across a blog by a company called Illation. What those guys do is compare performance of several rule engines available on the market: Drools, ILog, OPSJ and Jess. The stress tests cover different aspects, for example: Rules firing time Data load time Memory usage Pre-run memory used ...

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My voice is on iPhone App

My colleague Ila, has developed an iPhone app that reads out phone numbers from the phone book when you need it. Ila has requested some of us to "contribute&quo...

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VMware and Melbourne IT launch cloud service

Demand increases for local cloud computing services

Australian web hosting provider from Melbourne, Melbourne IT has launched cloud computing services together with VMware. The service is still in beta mode and it is called "vCloud Express" Its nice to see local provider offering cloud computing services as other big players on the market. A lot of ...

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Drools 5 Case Study 2 - Complex Event Processing

Creating rules to process complex events using sliding time and length windows

In my previous post Drools 5 - Complex Event Processing, I gave introduction to Drools Fusion module. In the current post, I would like to demonstrate Drools Fusion capabilities. As an example chosen for the current article, I decided to use a scenario when an insurance firm rewards its policy members. The members ...

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