Author: doozer

  • Upgrading a MikroTik Router

    MikroTik release updated versions of RouterOS on a fairly regular basis and it is normally a good idea to update your router when they become available. Upgrading is a fairly painless process but I found the instructions given on the website were a little out of date.

  • Fixing the MikroTik Router After an Upgrade

    I recently upgraded from RouterOS V5.13 to V5.16. The interface is a bit nice to look at (especially in the web configuration tool) and there is now a quick setup window in WinBox. The only downside of the upgrade is that all of a sudden my Internet connection stopped working.

  • Complete JavaFX 2 Editable Table Example

    The JavaFX 2 documentation is generally very well written but I found the discussion of the TableView component to be slightly lacking. It demonstrates the construction of a basic table with multi-level column headers and it shows the most basic example of editing. Any real application will want a much more complete handling of cell…

  • MySQL Triggers and UUID

    One of the applications I maintain currently only runs against Microsoft SQL Server. For the most part this hasn’t proven to be that much of a problem as everyone who uses the application also runs MS SQL. The problem comes when I want to deploy and test it on one of the company servers because…

  • Hudson Hell

    For a while now I’ve been meaning to get Hudson installed and running but what with one thing and another I’ve always put it off (I put it down to being a lone developer). What with everything else going on things like Hudson get pushed to the back of the queue all the time even…

  • JavaFX 2.0 and Maven – Part 4

    The final part of the Maven JavaFX build is getting NetBeans to correctly run the application. This, it turns out, is more difficult than I expected. This discussion covers a the problems quite well and is worth a read. I will admit up front that the solution I give here is not pretty, in fact…

  • JavaFX 2.0 and Maven – Part 3

    This (hopefully) final instalment of this series of articles on building JavaFX applications with Maven will refine what was done in the previous article. The previous article got us to the point where we were able to build a stand alone JavaFX application this article aims to do that with flare and produce roughly the…

  • JavaFX 2.0 and Maven – Part 2

    The previous part of this article covered how to set up a Maven project for JavaFX 2.0 and how to provide the required dependency. This part of the article will show you how to build a runnable jar file.

  • JavaFX 2.0 and Maven

    I decided to have a bit of a play with JavaFX 2.0 the other day as we have a project coming up that may be a good candidate for using it. My first impression of JavaFX 2.0 is generally very positive, it’s a lot like Swing with the sharp edges knocked off. I’d like to…

  • SQL Having

    The having clause is used when filtering has to be performed on aggregate functions since the where clause can not be used in this situation. Since the having clause is often used in conjunction with the group by clause the examples on this page use the same data as was used in the group by article…

  • SQL Group By

    The group by statement is generally used in conjunction with the various aggregate functions in order to produce results that are grouped by one or more columns. This is a very powerful way to report results for groups of results that share some common trait – in the example below the shared trait we are…

  • MikroTik RB751G Configuration

    This page describes the initial set up of my MikroTik RB751G router with a Thompson Gateway TG585v7 BeBox. Although that sounds quite specific these settings are should work with most or all ADSL routers that are in bridge mode and other RouterBoard devices.