A couple of days ago I read an article by David Walsh where he used keyboard interaction to save a form’s contents in the background with MooTools. I have read a bunch of his articles, and I am a big fan, and have always thought I want to emulate one of his articles using jQuery. Until now, he has beat me to the post.

This time however, I seem to have a longer window ;) With that I set forth to …

A month ago I started at a new position at a company doing some really interesting development for mobile phones using Java. I have been wanting to get into mobile development for a while now and have done some development for the iPhone, but nothing serious so, when this opportunity presented itself, I jumped at the chance.

The project I am currently working on is based on a proof of concept and as such is still in the very early stages. …

I have felt this for some time now, but my experience over the last four months along with a poll I viewed today on TechRepublic, brought this all into focus for me. Developers, in general, are living lives that are hardly what one would call balanced and healthy.

Drinking gallons of coffee to stay awake, all though not everything about coffee is bad, and sleeping a ridiculous small number of hours at night to make that deadline. It is generally in our nature …

Merging Portable Document Format documents using PDFBox couldn’t be simpler. The developer(s) of PDFBox has taken care of all of the hard work and encapsulated it in one class of their Application Programming Interface. All you need to do is use it.

The class I am referring to is the PDFMergerUtility class. This class provides everything you need to take multiple single or multi page PDFdocuments and merge them into one PDF document. Below I will go over the simple steps …