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Alexander Zagniotov

 

Alexander ZagniotovMy name is Alexander Zagniotov and I reside in Melbourne, Australia. I graduated from Victoria University in Melbourne with Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Some of my interests are J2EE, Java and Open Source technologies in general. Currently I am working as a J2EE software developer and having my battles with JBoss at premium SMS aggregator. In this weblog, I write about interesting and new findings I encounter as J2EE and PHP developer.

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1
Generate PDF with Flying Saucer and iText by adding font files
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 ...
23/02/2010
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Enriching Rich Internet Applications with rule-based reasoning
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 ...
23/02/2010
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Работать будучи студентом в Австралии
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 ...
22/02/2010
4
Happy Chinese New Year
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 ...
14/02/2010
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Redefining web applications with AJAX, Servlets and JSON
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 - ...
13/09/2009
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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 ...
08/09/2009
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Rule Engine Stress Testing
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 ...
05/09/2009
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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...
03/09/2009
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VMware and Melbourne IT launch cloud service
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 ...
02/09/2009
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Drools 5 Case Study 2 - Complex Event Processing
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 ...
01/09/2009