Month: January 2012

  • Adding Cover Art to Video Files

    I’ve been asked a couple of times recently about adding cover art to video files. This process will replace the default icon used, which is a frame from the film, with the DVD cover or any other artwork you want to use.

  • Netflix UK Update

    As we’ve now been using the Netflix service for a few weeks I though it was time for a bit of an update. Overall I’m still generally pleased with the service. The lack of a queue still bugs me but it’s not the end of the world so I’ll live with that. Picture quality seems…

  • Oracle VM Virtual Install

    A project I have running at the moment may require the fairly rapid deployment of a number of servers so I decided to get a head start and have a play with Oracle VM 3 (and as Wikipedia says – don’t confuse that with Oracle VM VirtualBox).

  • Programatically Adding Ajax Actions to UIComponents

    One of the projects I’m currently working on requires me to build a component tree dynamically. To complicate matters the components also require ajax functionality – in this case they are panels that need to be closed and notify a listener.

  • Dynamic Dashboard with PrimeFaces – Part 2

    After putting together the first page on writing a dynamic dashboard with PrimeFaces I descovered that the method I had come up with wasn’t as good as it could have been. Most noteably it didn’t work properly when the dashboard was updated via a partial page refresh. Typically that type of update would result in a…

  • Netflix UK

    After a long wait the UK finally has access to the Netflix film and television streaming service. We signed up on the day of release and after a few days of use I can say that over all I’m fairly pleased with the service. That’s not to say everything is perfect though, there’s a long way to…