I’ve now had my iPad for 10 days and spent $10 setting it up to be functional.  Or $610 if you count the iPad itself and the case. Why I bought the iPad I wanted to be able to read technical documents from the park.  The files could be PDFs, ZIP or HTML.  I will [...]

One interesting solution to the continuing public battle between Apple and Adobe over Flash support on its mobile platform would be for Apple to release its own Flash compiler, one that would allow a developer to create Flash applications without ever purchasing an Adobe product. Before you laugh, hear me out. Neither company is open [...]

As I continue looking at writing integration tests for the back end of JavaRanch’s JForum install, I faced the decision of how to guarantee a clean database.  A previous post on the topic covers how to clone a postgresql database via the command line. I was originally thinking about using dbUnit to import data.  I [...]