How to put codes nicely in Blog Using SyntaxHighlighter

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Change template is one time thing. After that, whenever you need put codes into blog, in HTML mode, put codes between

<pre class="brush:java"> ... </pre>

<script type="syntaxhighlighter" class="brush:xml">

</script>

You have the option to change the type of language, just as we are using java here, here is the list of the supported languages.

class='brush:java'
class='brush:as3'   //action script 3
class='brush:bash'
class='brush:css'
class='brush:groovy'
class='brush:js'    //java script
class='brush:py'
class='brush:sql'
class='brush:xml' //xml, xslt, html

My Template: add before </head>

Faster Copy Files

 
public static void copyFile(File sourceFile, File destFile) throws IOException 
{
  if (!destFile.exists()) 
  {
    destFile.createNewFile();
  }

  FileChannel source = null;
  FileChannel destination = null;
  try 
  {
    source = new FileInputStream(sourceFile).getChannel();
    destination = new FileOutputStream(destFile).getChannel();
    destination.transferFrom(source, 0, source.size());
  } 
  finally 
  {
    if (source != null) 
    {
      source.close();
    }
    if (destination != null) 
    {
      destination.close();
    }
  }
}
    

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XStream

http://xstream.codehaus.org/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xstream/
Library of serializing object to XML and deserializing object back from XML
1) Example of converting a list of object into a XML file:

public boolean XStream2XML(List importEntryList, String strOutXMLFilePath) 
{
  XStream xs = new XStream();

  //by default, xstream will use class's full name
  //you could use alias to avoid that
  xs.alias("entryList", List.class);
  xs.alias("importentry", ImportEntry.class);
  xs.alias("attribute", Attribute.class);

  try 
  {
    FileOutputStream fs = new FileOutputStream(strOutXMLFilePath);
    xs.toXML(importEntryList, fs);
    //a simpler version
    //String xml = xs.toXML(importEntryList);
    fs.close();
  } 
  catch (Exception e1) 
  {
    //e1.printStackTrace();
    return false;
  }

  return true;
}

2) Example of converting XML back to Java Object

String xml = "......";
Person newJoe = (Person)xstream.fromXML(xml);

Create Symbolic Link

ln -s source_file link_name

Java Preferences

Here is the situation, you want to save some user preferences, for example, I like certain columns for a given table, I don't want to customize it every time, I'd like to save it. Originally, I thought I might need a configuration file to achieve this, but soon I realize that it would be a pain, first of all, where to put this file? if my application is achieved, I don't even have the access the application folder. Secondly, every time I update the file, I need search this file and remove the old entry. I think there got to be a better way to do this.

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In windows, it's stored under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs

Just so we know, that we could import and export part of Registry, in this way, if we change our machine, we could just export/import and go.