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Add touch support to jQuery FancyBox 1.3.4

12-Dec-12

I’m using jQuery FancyBox on dailyfratze.de. I still use version 1.3.4 which is released under MIT and GPL license, if i remember correctly version 2 has not been always available under an open license but i’m maybe wrong. But nevertheless, version 2 also lacks touch support like 1.3.4 does. This can be changed if you’re […]

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#WJAX 2012

08-Nov-12

Another year, another W-JAX. It seems to become a jour-fix, being in Munich in November. As last year i only can recommend staying in the Westin Grand if your company is willing to afford this. You’ll have a much better conference experience than commuting throughout the city for your hotel or hostel. When i started […]

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JPA Criteria Query or plain SQL

25-Sep-12

Note: The following stuff is not Hibernate specific but is true for every JPA2 provider and falls into the category of JPA criteria query. Some days ago i just saw this video Christin Gorman about Hibernate. Although i don’t agree with her and i actually do like hibernate as a great tool, there are certainly […]

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Twitter Bootstrap: Make the default pills more usable

30-Jul-12

The default basic pills from Bootstrap are somewhat useless as they don’t change their state (class=”active”). I use the following javascript snippet to change that: $(’ul.nav.nav-pills li a’).click(function() { $(this).parent().addClass(’active’).siblings().removeClass(’active’); });$(‘ul.nav.nav-pills li a’).click(function() { $(this).parent().addClass(‘active’).siblings().removeClass(‘active’); });

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How to retrieve tables of custom object types with JDBC

24-Jul-12

The following is not only a personal reminder for me but also a first try to answer some questions on Stack Overflow… You can create custom object types in an Oracle database like so: CREATE TYPE t_demo_object AS OBJECT ( some_number NUMBER, some_string varchar2(32) ) /CREATE TYPE t_demo_object AS OBJECT ( some_number number, some_string varchar2(32) […]

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