Author Archives: Eddy Young

Whilst learning wxWidgets last year, I wrote a simple GUI time control. I forgot about that project until I found the code today as I organised files on my computer. It was rather difficult for me to understand because there was little documentation to explain how it works.

Yesterday Emtel became the first company in Africa to offer 3G mobile services. At the launch ceremony, the Minister for Information Technology, Pradeep Jeeha, held the first mobile video call in Mauritius.

Recently I was asked how to read a file without using streams in Visual Basic. Of course, if you’ve done this once in GW-Basic, you never forget. Dim iFileNumber As Integer Dim sLine As String iFileNumber = FreeFile Open “C:\stats.log” For Input As iFileNumber Do While Not EOF(iFileNumber) Input #iFileNumber, sLine MsgBox sLine Loop

It is striking that most search results for the keywords “EJB” and “exceptions” point to the same few articles at IBM DeveloperWorks. Unfortunately, they are too advanced for beginners. This post is a simple guide to handling exceptions in EJB. Definitions A checked exception is derived from java.lang.Exception but is not a subclass of java.lang.RuntimeException. …

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This is a simple PHP class to manage a collection of items. Refer to the sample at the end for usage example. Collection.php: <?php class Collection { var $elements = array(); var $counter = 0; var $pointer = 0; function Collection() { } function add($element) { $this->elements[$this->counter] = $element; $this->counter++; $this->pointer++; } function remove($element) { …

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Welcome! I had to twist their arms, but Movable Type, Textile and CSS are now cooperating, and this blog is close to how I want it. I should publish the first posts in the next few days. In the meantime, please report errors to me.