betweenGo

• Clear Text On Input Field On Click | ErumMunir.com. Sometimes JavaScript is just fun. http://bit.ly/c6D7cR #

• Set ATG Property And Popup Window After Clicking on Link. There's the wrong way, the brute force way and the right way. http://bit.ly/9H6P0p #

• Ignore Files and Directories in Subversion. A little bit of a pain but it works. http://bit.ly/99GLxk #
• How to Achieve Painless Registration. Getting people to register is always bedeviling for web application developers. http://bit.ly/9AJqmg #

Ruby on Rails

• Numeric data types and zerofill. Explains what all those int(11) columns are in your Ruby on Rails tables. http://bit.ly/9Tcf7q #
• undefined local variable or method "acts_as_list"? – Ruby Forum. Do ruby script/plugin install acts_as_list http://bit.ly/9kFWbG #
• ruby on rails : adding child records to an existing parent without visiting the parent – Stack Overflow http://bit.ly/cQiGSP #
• Multi-Table Inheritance in Rails – When two tables are one… This is not easy and I wish it was. http://bit.ly/9fbzgk #
• has_many :through – count vs length vs size. Use count if u don’t want to load the contents of association into memory. http://bit.ly/dtqXe1 #
• A gentle reminder about pluralizations. config/initializers/inflections.rb to customize pluralizations in Ruby on Rails http://bit.ly/bN9GO5 #
• Ruby on Rails – Rails Migrations Cheatsheet – Dizzy. Pretty helpful. http://bit.ly/9wNvRx #
• RailsGuides Migrations. Nice guide, especially about explaining the naming convention which I don’t like. http://bit.ly/cjZ7aB #

ATG

• Configuring ATG to Send Email via Comcast SMTP – betweenGo. Configuring your ATG app to use your ISP’s SMTP server. http://bit.ly/7M5bhx #
• Enabling non-XA Resources in JBoss 4.2 with ATG – betweenGo. http://bit.ly/aDN3Po #
• Combining XML in ATG – betweenGo. Combining XML files not as straight-forward as w/ properties files but more flexible. http://bit.ly/8kVwvA Jan 12 12:00 PM

Eclipse

• Debugging Applications in IBM Rational Application Developer. Page 12 for how to set up server for debugging. http://bit.ly/aaYUHb #

JavaScript

• How can I submit a form along with some parameters using JavaScript? (JSF forum at JavaRanch). Answer #3 was helpful. http://bit.ly/b17ymm #

JSP

• Testing Which Page Loaded your JSP Page Fragment – betweenGo. Simple enough to do w/ JSTL but I always forget how. http://bit.ly/cEh7IZ #

Miscellaneous

• Cygwin 1.7.x, mounts and /etc/fstab – betweenGo. Mounts are no longer saved from session to session in Cygwin 1.7. http://bit.ly/bmaYEu #
• Git in 5 Minutes http://bit.ly/bSt3dd and Git for the lazy – Spheriki http://bit.ly/aefD17 #
• The Thing About Git. Nice article describing how flexible Git is, especially compared to SVN. I may never use SVN again http://bit.ly/bD0tuS #
• I use DreamHost and am shamelessly plugging them both for a referral and to try to win an iPad. Honestly they’re great. http://bit.ly/ctYv3Z #

• Undefined – betweenGo. Turns out there are at least two ways to determine if something is undefined in JavaScript. http://bit.ly/4Q98X5 #
• NullPointerException in ATG OrderDiscountCalculator – betweenGo. Fortunately fix was simple. Notifying @atg_support. http://bit.ly/84iTKB #

• ATG Date Tag Converter is Buggy because Java’s DateFormat are inherently unsafe for multithreaded use. http://bit.ly/4VmN3l #
• Covariant Return Types in Java – betweenGo. It is nice to be able to override the return type. http://bit.ly/51JpAt #
• JavaServer Pages (JSP) and JSTL – attribute items does not accept any expressions. I was getting this because wrong URI http://bit.ly/5j5b3I #

• Seth’s Blog: “What do you need me to do?” Seth says it’s not good to ask that, better instead to describe solutions. http://bit.ly/34q59p #
• Version Control with Subversion. Undoing changes or rolling back to a previous version. Very simple. http://bit.ly/h0iOD #

• How to Debug an InvalidVersionException from Updating an ATG Order. Eclipse debugging and JSP debug code. http://bit.ly/MUMIH #
• How to Debug an InvalidVersionException from Updating an Order in @ATG_ecommerce. Eclipse debugging and JSP debug code. http://bit.ly/MUMIH #
• ATGLogColorizer for Colorizing ATG Server Outputs and Logs. Color is wonderful. Red means errors, yellow means warnings. http://bit.ly/IQLBv #

• JavaScript Invalid Argument in Internet Explorer Only. You can't have spaces in windowName argument of window.open method. ://bit.ly/5JUZk #
• ATG Currency Converter Not Working With JSTL c:set. Debugging with Eclipse helped solve the problem. http://bit.ly/kMmSV #
• SugarSync promo ends 8/31. Sign up for free service and we each get 500 MB more. http://bit.ly/5Lu69 Why I like it lots http://bit.ly/17UwyP #

From the Mac Tricks and Tips blog I saw this interesting article, Extracting Text From PDF Files.

1. Open Automator, found in Applications > Utilities
2. In Automator drag out “Get Selected Finder Items”, then “Extract PDF Text”. I recommend changing the output option to Rich Text.
3. Save the file. Either as an application or a file.
4. Test. Drag a PDF file onto the Automator file and let it do its work, after a short time you will have a text file with the extracted text.