J2mepolish provides different licenses depending on how you use the product now while this can be looked on in a bad light but I quite like the fact that it is open-source as well as long as you your self release the code under the same license should you wish to release under a different license there are other payed options available.

The build framework is licensed under GPL no matter how you use it.

I have found that the build proccess can be pretty slow and time consuming I have also found that with out obsfication it by default includes ALL classes in the framework include the GUI/Utils. While you don’t make use of them you aren’t violating the license it does increase the application size. There are a few tweeks that one can make to their own personal setup to improve this.

Firstly tmpfs and mounting your /build and /dist directory into memory (For debugging only I wouldn’t mount a full build) You would have to replace the standard build clean target since the standard user shouldn’t have permissions to delete/create tmpfs
Standard:

<delete dir=\"dist\" />

Changed

<delete includeemptydirs=\"true\">
<fileset dir=\"dist\" includes=\"**/*\" defaultexcludes=\"false\"/>
</delete>

Secondly the since the build proccess includes all the J2mepolish source files by default you should be able to just set polish.client.source to a empty directory but it contains a reference Locale which also contains references to other files(Which are not 100% needed unless you actually use the Utilities provided by J2mepolish)

So a simple fix is create a folder structure with /path/to/directory/de/enough/polish/util/Local.java and place this Local.java in there.

In the build file or one of the config files set

polish.client.source=/path/to/directory

and you should be all set. I noticed huge build time improvements but I don’t currently make sure of the GUI/Utils.

Hope this helps make you more productive. If you have any other tweaks I would love to hear them.

curl + Json + Python
curl http://domain.com/api.json 2> /dev/null | python -mjson.tool

I found that with our redirection the error output to /dev/null i was getting.

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 67 0 67 0 0 76 0 –:–:– –:–:– –:–:– 0

Formated Json

{
    "query": "some text",
    "results": [
        {
            "id": "213",
            "title": "some result"
        }
    ]
}

I decided perl is unreadable and the file is json any way. So with the python-json package You can get some pretty readable code so I wrote a pretty simple Python version ff-pages.

Usage:
python ff-pages.py /path/to/location/sessionstore.js

I am starting off with python so all comments are welcome.

Update 02/06/2009:
python-json isn’t needed.
Seems to only work with firefox3.5

The reason I say “have heard” is I refuse to use/try it until they release the Linux based version. I mean the product wont even run on their own Solaris OS way to go on marketing your own products.

The windows version has been out for more ages. I have logged a bug request on their site, I didn’t get a reply not that I was actually expecting to get one.

Under the Requirements section “Windows” are you kidding me, The guys that have been pushing and that revolutionized cross platform development.

For now at least my beliefs hold strong and I wont touch their shiny new toy until they release a Linux version. </EndRant>

FOR /F "tokens=*" %%R IN ('PROGRAM.EXE /SWITCH') DO SET VAR=%%R

My first attempt was something like this

application > ~tmpFile
set /p var= < ~tmpFile
del ~tmpFile


This post is a prequel to simple mysql backup script for windows.

$a = ‘foo’;
$b = 0;
if ( $a == true && $b == false && $a == $b ) {
echo “Pigs Can Fly”;
}

Produces “Pigs Can Fly”.
Strings are considered true if they are not empty or null. so ‘foo’==true would be true==true ie true
Numbers are considered false if they are 0. so 0 == false is false == false ie true
As for the last point this still fascinates me.
Because there are no numbers in variable $a, is set to 0, therefore int 0 == int 0.

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