Archive for October, 2007
Adding a date/time stamp to a jpeg image in Java
I've been looking for a simple tool to add a date/time stamp to some jpeg images. There are quite a lot of tools to do this but they all tend to cost money. I decided to make my own in Java. The actual process of loading a jpeg, adding a stamp and then saving it again is very simple. The below snippet will do the job. BufferedImage bi = [...]
Adding source code into WordPress blog posting
As you can see from the previous post I finally figured out how to easily add source code into a WordPress blog posting. Searching on Google for this issue reveals large numbers of people facing the same problem. It makes you think that including source code in a WordPress 2.2.1 blog posting is the most difficult problem known to man. Many of [...]
ProGuard Eclipse Ant build.xml
If you are building J2SE apps with Eclipse and want to use ProGuard to compress, optimise or obfuscate your code you'll need to create an Ant build.xml file to do this. I found various bits of help on the internet explaining parts of the build.xml file, but couldn't find anywhere that gave the complete build.xml to do the full compile, jar and [...]
Installing Nokia Maps on a Nokia N80
I recently bought a Nokia LD-W3 external bluetooth GPS unit that is working well when used with Nokia’s Sport Tracker application. It allows you to record your tracks that can later be overlaid onto Google Maps. It doesn’t however have a built in map so you can see where you are. I wanted a mapping application so that I could navigate using [...]
