Welcome at The BalusC Code!
This website (let's call it "blog" for now) was originated at a site called "The BalusC Server" which existed since may 1999 and was available on http://balusc.xs4all.nl since june 2001. At 31 august 2007 that site was stopped due to the emigration plans of BalusC and its family from The Netherlands to Curaçao. That site was hosted at a private webserver which was running right at home and it was not an option to take that webserver along to the new house. It simply doesn't fit in the second life.
The two most valuable content groups of that website were the "Hardware" and the "Development" groups. The first one was responsible for about 70% of the 80.000 monthly pagehits and the second one for about 25%. The first one costs too much time to be maintained and also the area of interest has been moved, so BalusC decided to stop definitely with that. It is currently sold to Tweakers.net BV. It will be available sooner or later as a part of their Pricewatch. The second one is fortunately moved to this blog. You can find them in the Articles bar at the right side. It's all about Java and nothing else. The articles are goaled on environments with at least Java EE 5.0, Servlet 2.5, JSP 2.1, JSTL 1.2 and JSF RI 1.2 (Mojarra).
Next to this blog BalusC also maintains another blog together with his wife. This blog is located at http://curalive.blogspot.com and is focused on their new live at Curaçao. That blog is and will be written entirely in Dutch only. Foreigners who doesn't understand Dutch can use Google Translator for it or just view photos -which can say more than thousand words.
What is the main language?
This blog will be a mixup of English and Dutch articles. The choice of the language will be based on the availability of comparable content somewhere else on the Internet. If there is lot of them then the article will be written in Dutch. Generally those are the "basic" Java articles (tutorials and knowledgements) which are mainly already available at sun.com. The more "advanced" Java articles (best practices and useful snippets) which aren't available widely on the Internet will be written entirely in English.
What does 'BalusC' mean?
It's a concatenation of the first two characters of each name part of his full name Bauke Luitsen Scholtz. It was invented at 1995 when he created a small ANSI DOS Batch program to select DOS games out of his collection and directly run it: "Gamemenu made by BALUSC". It was for personal purposes only. Later when he joined the IRC chatrooms at 1996, this acronym was used as nickname to identify himself. After quickly becoming more familiar with the netiquette and having learnt that CAPS == SHOUTING, he decided to lowercase the middle characters so that the nickname 'BalusC' was created. The last character is still uppercased, because 'everyone did it also', referring to the so-called good old l33t speak. Up to now this nickname is still unique and practically all Google hits refers uniquely to himself and/or his website.
3000?
Yes, the welcome page which you're facing is posted at 1 january 3000.
So this page will be kept on the top of the blog forever =)
It's actually posted at 31 august 2007.
24 comments:
Veel succes in Curacao !
Heb veel gehad aan de Win XP RAID1 tweak
Ik wist van niets! Compleet out-of-the-blue voor mij. Had ik dit geweten dan had ik je nog effe geknuffeld afgelopen weekend!
:'(
We zullen je missen!
Hey Balusc,
Succes op Curacao!
Je site zal gemist worden!
En jullie natuurlijk ook.
Barend // endless
Hola,
Where is your forum archive?
He Bauke,
De content van die geweldige oude site van je is toch niet verloren gegaan he?
Als in: gewist? Dat zou eeuwig zonde zijn....
Anyway, je kent me verder niet, maar ik ga je missen!
Veel succes in Curacao!
hey BalusC. It would be nice if you post some examples on your blog for a springframework which includes presisting data in database, modelandview, etc...
Just a thought
Chris: unfortunately I am a JSF developer, not a Spring developer.
I have been reading your post on java forums. You are the only one experience over there. Too bad you are not a spring developer. I guess with so many model, service and dao classes in spring its very hard to get a reply on the forum even in spring forums also.
Gook luck with your new job. Your CPU Types pages were unparalleled. They really came in handy a few months ago when I needed to figure out how to decode cpuinfos.
Is this part of the content sold to Tweakers.net? I couldn't find anything about it on their site. Do you know of another good reference for this information?
If it comes online, I will post a link as well.
Another reference is Wikipedia. Not as specific as mine was, but it's better than nothing :)
You can also check Intel Processorfinder and AMD Compare.
hi BaukeScholtz, Within 2 years, you have crossed more than 10,000 posts at Sun Developer Forums. Congrats buddy.
--SKP71.
Good luck with your new job.
I would like to know if you could distribute a copy of your "balusc.xs4all.nl" website even if it was sold (a simple text file will be welcome) ?
I realize a hardware recognition software and your website was for me an information source that I can find nowhere else (except sandpile.org).
I had never think to record it so this is why I ask you if you can share it.
If you can't, it's not serious and I thank you for everything you have done. If yes, thank you both.
A really good luck with your new life.
And sorry for my bad English
Hi BalusC,
I saw your article on tailoring Eclipse for J2EE application development, it was really good and lucid!!!It was very helpful.
It would be good if you publish some articles on how to use JAAS with JSF with illustrations.
Thanksyou
Hi Bauke,
Your articles are really great and helpfull, thanks a lot!
You are inspiration for all those people who struggle with JSF in their everyday life ;-)
Now, the burning question I have is following: does is pay off to have Google ads on the Website? Compared to potential revenue you might get from publishing a book on the subject or article in professional magazines how does Google ads fare?
I am contemplating about putting online some technical pieces I learnt hard way as J2EE consultant over the years, but being apparently much greeder person then you are, I am trying to figure out first if the whole writing effort worth more then just ooh and aahh from the readers.
I guess your blog is the great way to market yourself to potential clients/employers, but if this is not the case, would you still spend that much time and effort to do such a great job?
I understand the sensitive nature of this question, so it's perfectly fine if it goes answered.
Thanks!
VladS
e: vsaddr-in6 at yahoo....
I meant UNanswered ;-)
The monthly payoff is less than my hourly fare. I've had much better payoffs with my previous site at balusc.xs4all.nl which got up to ten times more pageviews. But the CTR is relatively good, it is better than with my previous site.
This blog is not made available to sell myself, but just to share new and helpful knowledge which isn't available on the World Wide Web yet. It is a nice entry at my CV though.
How can i post my questions on this Blog..?
Hi can anyone tell me that how can i do validation in jsf pages if i am having 10 required fields and 15 conditional required fields.If i click on save it needs to check only 10 required fields.. and if i click validate and save.. then it needs to check vlidation for 10+15 fields.
the oneway i tried to implement this is by implementing validator interface and tried to implement the validate method.But how can i get the each and individual fields on the jsf page in the validate method ??
The code is like this
public void validate(FacesContext context, UIComponent component,
Object value) throws ValidatorException {
System.out.println("entering validate method....");
FacesContext
Here I want user name and pasword from the faces context..or some other way ..As i donno it..I am trying to learn this as we have somw requirement reg this..Plz help...
}
Dear BalusC, thank you for this great site. We would like to be told some things about encryption, database backup strategies, clustering, scalability, servlets, jsp, struts, wicket and tomcat if you have time.
Kind regards,
Niklas R
This is really great blog...
Thanks to Balusc ...
Bauke
I'd like to talk with you or your company (preferably you) about some outsourced JSF development for my company, including both digital imaging and medical applications.
I'm writing you because I've found your JSF hints and notes extremely valuable in my own work.
You can contact me thru LinkedIn ...
Best,
-Robert Patt-Corner
Hello,
Your blog is very useful reference, esp for some edge case scenarios.
I have a question - Let me know if you can help me out.
I am using JSF 1.1 and RichFaces 3.0, I am trying to use ContextMenu component. I can get the menu items displayed on the click, but, the menu doesnt get closed at all and would remain in the screen. I tried all ways to tackle this, but all vain. If you have any idea on this, please let me know.
Hi BalusC,
I have developed a small JSF application using MyEclipse,Tomcat 6.0 and MySQL 5.0.51.
I am stuck with the onchange event of h:selectOneMenu. The problem is when I select a new User ID (on 'modifyUserDetails.jsp' page) the form fields should be loaded with that User details.
When I select a new user id, the control goes to the getUserDetails(ValueChangeEvent event) method and successfully prints the user details to the console. But the details are not populated on the same jsp page.
The first time I select an User Id the -> User Role value is retrieved and set to the correct value on the form (which is another h:selectOneMenu) ... But other field values are not populated on the form as expected. After that when I select another User Id, the User Role value does not change and even the Clear button (h:commandButton type="reset") does not work as expected.
One more observation which I made was --- After performing the process mentioned in the above paragraph ---> When I go back to the previous page using the back button and click on the h:commandLink to the modifyUserDetails.jsp page ... The page opens with the form populated with user details of the selected User Id. So, the problem is that the page is not being refreshed when a new user is selected. How can I make this happen??
Regards,
Shiva
The entire problem is explained here :-
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5292438&tstart=0
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