Today I tried to start iReport for the first time on the Mac. There was a shell script distributed with the program, so I gave it a shot in the Terminal. Unfortunately I got an exception immediately.
Stryker:iReport-2.0.3 2 siker$ chmod a+x iReport.sh
Stryker:iReport-2.0.3 2 siker$ ./iReport.sh
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 2

I fooled around with the script […]

Tom over at the eclipse-dev blog posted this useful snippet for putting native looking checkboxes in SWT JFace TableViewer tables. Unfortunately the checkboxes ended up with a gray background in OS X, as seen in the picture below.

An unsightly gray checkbox background.

I came up with this hack to hack the hack to work.

private Image makeShot(Control […]

Just in case anyone runs into trouble with this, I just want to describe the steps for installing the symfony framework on an OS X 10.5 (Leopard) machine.
The good news is that Leopard comes with PHP 5 built in. The bad news is that PEAR is not included, which is needed to install symfony […]

Over the last few days, iPhone unlocking has seen a couple of sharp turns. First iPhoneSimFree promised to deliver a commercial solution to unlock your iPhone. Then they hesitated and decided to become a wholesale only company, further delaying their release. Ultimately, they missed the train and the hacking community stepped in (Free iPhone unlock […]

Yahoo! recently released a new Firefox extension called YSlow. This article describes how to get started and what we did at Playing With Wire to get our front page to load in almost half the time.
YSlow is a handy little tool for analyzing the performance of your websites. It will give you vital statistics and […]