Today, I was integrating a custom JSP component into IBM WCM and I noticed some characters were not displaying as expected, after looking into the generated source code in Firefox I realized the used encoding was ISO-8859-1, let me explain what ISO-8859-1 means… According the W3C the ISO-8859-1 encoding: ISO-8859-1 is the default character set in…
This is a little tip for today: sometimes, you don’t have access to know what version of jQuery is loaded in a website or web application, so you can use the Firebug console to know what version is actually loaded. Just, type one of the next lines and you will obtain that data. Both major…
Imagine next situation: You have too many files without extension but you know they are valid HTML files, so you have to add an “.html” extension to all these files. Now, if you need to rename thousands of files you will need to do it with a script, definitely. In order to make this happen,…
If you are trying to add an XML attribute in an XML entry using JAXB this information is for you. First of all you need to understand what an attribute in a XML entry means: in strict sense an attribute provides additional information about an element, this information could be useful to add metadata, states of…
If you are using Spring to create an awesome enterprise application and you are a beginner like me this article is for you. Today when I was integrating new configurations to Spring MVC to an existing project an error appeared, this error was related with <mvc-anotation-driven /> annotation. At the beginning I thought it would…
Today, when I was creating a RESTful service in JavaEE for a dynamic web application to run in IBM® WebSphere Application Server (WAS) an error like this was appearing: Class has two properties of the same name “userId” this problem is related to the following location: at public java.lang.String com.rest.model.UserProfile.getUserId() at com.rest.model.UserProfile this problem is…
Hi my friends! Last week, we needed to add an action that could be thrown when a product was published on Virtuemart 2.x, for that reason a good solution was to implement a trigger in MySQL. At the beginning it seemed to be something simple and fast, but no at all, I spent more that…
When you are creating a web project and you need to send an email you could choose between two options: Server-side solution. I consider this is the best way to send an email because with this solution you can customize all as you need like: HTML, styles, attachments, etc. but it is more complicated because…
When you need to integrate a video player on IBM Web Content Manager, probably you will not find very much documentation, for this reason today I would like to explain how to integrate one of the nicest video players available at this moment; I am talking about Flowplayer. Flowplayer is an HTML5 based player but…
Today, I would like to share a useful code that could help when you need to know if a color is correctly entered in an input field. So, here is an example of how to validate an HTML hexadecimal color by using a regular expression in JavaScript. The regular expression to accomplish this task is:…