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Setting up nested style templates in iReport and JasperReports 25 Jan 2013 | 08:34 am
Style templates are a great way to abstract style definitions that are shared across a report out to an external file. This makes them easier to maintain and understand of course, but once your report...
Evading UUID woes when upgrading to iReport 4.6 24 Jan 2013 | 04:30 am
If you get this sort of nonsense as soon as you create a new report in iReport 4.6 (important caveat: and after having been running an older version like 4.1): com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.JSExcept...
Changing your name in iPad mail accounts 14 Aug 2012 | 01:30 pm
When adding a second Gmail account to my iPad recently, I needed to differentiate the two accounts clearly. I decided on “Gmail – ” followed by the beginning of the account name. All well and good so ...
Transfering Google-synced iPad Notes between accounts 20 Apr 2012 | 03:24 pm
The short path to transferring iPad Notes between Google accounts: Create a Notes label in your new Gmail Connect the old and new Gmail to a mail client that allows multiple accounts and transferrin...
Handy Excel Tip: Open workbook in new instance 30 May 2011 | 09:04 am
I’ve written before about using Excel for some remote data collection and analysis tasks. One thing that often annoyed me in such situations was the inability to utilize multiple monitors. Whenever I ...
Charlie Sheen is a long way from philosophy– but the journey is winning 26 May 2011 | 07:52 am
After reading about an interesting phenomenon witnessed in a cartoon by Randall xkcd I decided to see how true it was that you could get to Philosophy from most any Wikipedia term via a reasonable num...
Show all available documents to new Google Apps – Docs users 15 May 2011 | 01:55 pm
At my job we use Google Docs (via Google Apps) for internal collaborative documents and archives. One big issue with this platform is that when new folks are hired/given accounts and they go to view “...
Bag of useful Bash aliases and functions 15 May 2011 | 01:10 pm
Here are a number of assorted aliases and functions for Bash that I’ve made in the last few months and found to be useful. Enjoy! Sysadminish These two print the current value of the swappiness para...
Great iPad Apps 9 May 2011 | 12:44 pm
I purchased an iPad 2 recently and have really been impressed with the versatility of the platform. I keep finding new uses for it, including some that are new roles instead of replacements for more l...
Fast and easy bluetooth management on Ubuntu 28 Feb 2011 | 11:16 am
I wanted to connect the conveniently svelte Apple wireless keyboard and mouse to my Ubuntu media server. I don’t often have issues connecting peripherals to my Ubuntu systems these days, so I naively ...
