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 […]

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In our last article, Building an IT infrastructure with a sub-3,000 budget we […]

Introduction
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At least in my personal opinion, one of the strongest trends seen at the LinuxWorld expo in San Francisco over the last years has been virtualization. This year many exhibitors had taken the next step and were actually using VMware products on their exhibit computers to simulate a number of servers in a network. For […]

This guide is for the programmer who needs to write a quick and dirty PHP extension. A PHP extension is a module for PHP written in C. You may wish to write such a module to expose library functionality only available in C, or to optimize certain key sections in your execution path.
As I have […]