Dumitru Postoronca - Programming

Building custom Swing components (JTreeView with checkboxes)

nospam@example.com (Dumitru Postoronca) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:46:33 -0400

When building a reasonably complex Swing application, more often than not you might end up needing a GUI component that is not made available in the Java distribution. In the following tutorial I will present the required steps to make a working treeview with checkboxes that allows the user to browse his/her filesystem.

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Cakephp - first impressions

nospam@example.com (Dumitru Postoronca) — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:33:40 -0400

Recently, I've started a project and selected CakePHP as the framework I should build it on. I was somewhat familiar with Cake and MVC, so starting up wasn't such a big problem, but (as with many other "magic-based" frameworks, I guess) I quickly ran into trouble:

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Creating and Drawing Diagrams on Web

nospam@example.com (Dumitru Postoronca) — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:40:30 -0400

I found an interesting site that allows you to draw various diagrams (www.gliffy.com) only using your web browser. The application is made in Flash, has undo, copy/paste and export to PNG, JPEG and SVG features.

Yet another nice free thing :)

Installing tiOPF2 in Delphi

nospam@example.com (Dumitru Postoronca) — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:10:25 -0400

This is a small tutorial on getting and installing TechInsite Object Persistence Framework (tiOPF2) in Delphi.
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