http://blog.znapz.org Java, open source, web, running, squash, music... Tue, 17 May 2011 11:58:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Quartz is an open source job scheduling system written in Java. Executing a job in quartz is based on the definition of triggers. But what if you are in a development environment where you don't want to schedule jobs and want to be able to run them on demand? ... http://blog.znapz.org/open-source/quartz-run-now/ Yesterday I had a chat with Henri on Google Talk where he asked me for a screenshot of the project I was working on. For those of you who don't know I am currently working on a webservice that will keep track of the technorati rankings of your blog. More ... http://blog.znapz.org/web/sneak-preview/ Sparklines are described in Edward Tufte's book Beautiful Evidence (2006) as “small, high resolution graphics embedded in a context of words, numbers, images”. In one of our projects we needed sparklines and one option was to use this open source package by Larry Ogrodnek. Just out ... http://blog.znapz.org/web/sparklines-with-the-google-chart-api/ I want to share a nice little gadget from the Nike+ website. The runs are updated each time I sync my Nike+/Apple sensor. Time to get my lazy but out of the chair ... you can almost watch me when I am running! http://blog.znapz.org/web/nike-gadget/ Today I was figuring out how to integrate the Hibernate search API in one of my projects. At a certain point the docs referred to the Lucene documentation. My old pal Google provided me the link to the Lucene homepage and when I opened it up I saw something ... http://blog.znapz.org/web/lucene-uses-google/ A few weeks ago I visited my doctor for my knee problems and he told me I wouldn't have to worry about running again. He also said that one of the reasons why I was feeling down about me not sporting where my endorphins. Or better the lack of endorphins. ... http://blog.znapz.org/running/endorphins-on-doctors-advice/ I believe in the Open Source Development model for building reliable software. End nineties I started to join (mostly by lurking on the mailing lists) the open source world using the Cocoon 1.x framework for one of our projects. Since then I learned a lot about the open world, it's ... http://blog.znapz.org/web/znapz-dot-org/ This morning I finished my first training since the GP Gaston Roelants. Problems with my knee kept me from training and I was a happy man this morning when I finished my training without any knee problems. The training track (see map below) was very slippery and wet, especially the ... http://blog.znapz.org/running/first-training-2008/ I have been training a while now with the Garmin Forerunner 305 (a wireless heart rate monitor with a GPS receiver) and I was very excited to run my first official running contest the GP Gaston Roelants in Brussels. It was a difficult track with a lot of nasty hills ... http://blog.znapz.org/running/gp-gaston-roelants-2007/ Just ran into a tool called iText which is focused on creating PDF documents. Read more about ithere. A step-by-step guide to iText is available here at IBM or at O'Reilly iText is used by BIRT an eclipse based reporting tool http://blog.znapz.org/open-source/pdf-documents-with-itext/