English Keyboards have access to Japanese and other languages by using the Microsoft Language Installer. Well, for Japanese key users, how to input Japanese and switch from Hiragana and Katakana and vice versa. Basically just 2 simple key presses.

How to connect to Oracle DB with ODBC using Qlikview. Qlikview helps to display reports and graphs. Some error on displaying TNS Service Name on Qlikview revealing garbage is solved with some changes.

Tested with one of the test users for the Oracle 10G Database with the username scott. Looks like it came out with this message. User Account Scott is Locked. Seemingly, though, Oracle 10G has an administration website and it’s just easy to change the settings for this user.

How to use Hibernate’s DetachedCriteria to get result by using Join for a class. As of newest Hibernate, the type Expression is deprecated and that’s where Restrictions come into place. What’s the difference then by using HQL and Criterias?

For those running Tomcat 5.5 on a JDK 1.4, there will be compatibility issues. Testing it on Eclipse, the error would appear as such.

This release of Apache Tomcat was packaged to run on J2SE 5.0
or later. It can be run on earlier JVMs by downloading and
installing a compatibility package from the Apache Tomcat
binary download page.

This [...]

For those that started studying computers or those in the 90s, most of us started learning the HOW TO BUILD A WEBPAGE with HTML. Those days, a webpage is defined by how well it was formatted and if you want fancy stuffs, the best one can get is Macromedia Flash (now Adobe Flash). Here are [...]

Using Eclipse as my Java editor, and attempting to update the desired codes and to mark the version on SVN with TechieDan’s codes has prompted this error from eclipse.

“Attempted to lock an already-locked dir svn:”

Now looking at this, nothing was updated and a solution was needed to be able to update codes. The solution is [...]

Most of us who snap photos usually take those pictures on the newer cameras with bigger pixels. Though the problem is sometimes we need to crop the picture or rather resize the photos for public viewing on the Internet. Yes, one can do that one by one using Adobe Photoshop, and re-size them accordingly to [...]

Been playing around with Hibernate and mapping classes with Java. A reason why Hibernate is useful is so to facilitate users to stop writing pure SQL for queries and reduce code redundancy. A slight note, Hibernate also works well with the .NET platform.

Though there was this error which TechieDan experienced

org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateSystemException: [...]