A few months ago I was working a bit on Pdf2Dom in my free time which is an open source Java PDF to HTML converter. At some point I bumped into PDFs that were using old and obscure Adobe font formats which we didn’t support quite yet. So I started Googling about old Adobe font […]
Getting Hibernate to Work With PostgreSQL Int Array Types
Recently while working on a new website that was using PostgreSQL for the DB I decided to use a small int array type column for a preference field because hey cool new thing you don’t normally get to use. If you use Hibernate you will unfortunately soon discover that PostgreSQL’s neat additional data types like […]
Made an IntelliJ Plugin That Lets You Bind Keyboard Shortcuts to Toggle Inspections
A couple days ago I was frustrated with IntelliJ for not allowing me to bind a keyboard shortcut to toggle spelling. I don’t like leaving the spelling inspection on all the time since it ends up being way way annoying and distracting. So I asked on stack overflow if anyone knew if it could be […]
Setting up a HC-06 Bluetooth Module With Arduino
A little bit ago I grabbed a cheap HC-06 Bluetooth transceiver for $6 off Amazon for my electronics project. It was fairly simple to setup but I did run into a few hitches and a lack of information so I’m going to detail some of that for you so you can hopefully avoid the same […]
Simple WordPress AdSense Widget
Recently I added AdSense ads to this WordPress site. At first I used Google’s own AdSense plugin which was good for just a quick setup but I quickly got annoyed with it’s limitations and bugs like so many of you others have. My main gripes were the limited selection of where you could place an […]