On May 23, 1578, Governor Francisco de Sande, who had taken possession of Borneo for Spain, sent off an officer, Esteban Rodriguez
de Figueroa, to subdue the Sulu Islands, instructing him to convert (as gently as he can) the pirates of that place into peaceful farmers, paying
tribute to the Spanish Crown.
De Sande was the third governor of the Philippines who ruled from August 25, 1575 to April 1580.
The Philippines' rejection of charges that its coast guard intentionally shot a Taiwanese fisherman to death in overlapping waters has enraged Taiwan and severely strained ties between two normally friendly Pacific Rim democracies. But both sides are hinting this week at a joint investigation that could repair relations.
The shooting of a 65-year-old fisherman aboard his boat on May 9 has created a public furor in his homeland, Taiwan, prompting calls for a full-blown apology and compensation. Taiwan said the act was intentional, but the Philippines has said much less.
On June 28, 1848, Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonso, the parents of Dr. Jose Rizal, got married. Francisco was from Biñan, Laguna while Teodora was from Meisik, Tondo. They had 11 children, 2 boys and 9 girls.
Rafael del Pan (Photo credit: http://www.asiafinest.com/)
On June 17, 1863, Rafael del Pan, a lawyer, nationalist, and reformist, was born in Intramuros, Manila to Don Jose Felipe del Pan, a Spaniard, and
Amalia Garcia Fontela, a Filipina.
Del Pan was sent to Spain when he was seven years old to study. He returned to Manila and studied at the Ateneo Municipal. After obtaining his
Bachiller en Artes at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran in 1880, he pursued Law studies at the University of Santo Tomas but did not
finish the course. It was in the Central University of Madrid in Spain where he completed his studies in law and obtained the Licenciado en Jurisprudencia on January 28, 1886.
A U.S. computer security firm says the Chinese military has resumed cyber attacks on American companies after a hiatus.
Mandiant, which accused China of cyber attacks in a February report, says a Chinese army unit recently broke into the computer systems of more than 100 companies to steal trade secrets.
Rhinoslider is a beautiful JQuery slider plugin that can handle images, video and other HTML content with many custom options. Using the plugin in HTML pages is quite simple and straightforward. Their website even has a generator that will give you a code and start customizing the plugin from there. Here in this blog, we will demostrate how to integrate this plugin on images and youtube videos into a JSF page based on version 1.05 of the plugin. We will provide 2 options of embedding the plugin. Live demo is available in the home page with this site.
Listing 1 below, is a sample generated page. Please make sure that items from 6 to 11 of the snippet are accessible from the page itself. These items are part of the plugin download. If using PrimeFaces, you may want to remove lines 6 to 8. Also lines 10 and 11 are optional and are controlled by the values of "easing" and "controlsMousewheel" parameters of the plugin (see Listing 7).
Today we will demonstrate how to setup SSL on Tomcat 7 with and without Apache2 in Debian servers using self-signed certificates. This should work with Debian Squeeze and Wheezy servers. We assume you already have existing Apache 2 and Tomcat 7 installations.
A sitemap.xml generated on demand is very helpful for websites that has lots of pages and with pages that are added frequently. According to
Google, sitemaps help their crawlers find pages from websites. This is true for new websites or for pages that has fewer links to them.
The servlet herein described is based on sitemaps.org protocol with Google image extension. We used JDOM2 library to create the XML sitemap
structure. Below is how a standard sitemap looks like with the Google image extension. Please note that image extension is supported only by
Google. Bing/Yahoo ignores them.
A Google+ interactive post is similar to a basic share post but adds a call-to-action button to the post. In a product post for example, the
call-to-action button can be "Add to cart", engaging your users direct from Google+ stream. The call-to-action button appears just
below the main post area. Aside from the call-to-action, the interactive post will ask for user permission the first time the share button is
used through the standard Google+ OAuth consent dialog or always depending on the value of data-approvalprompt attribute.
Some of the Facebook panels with slim scrollbars and infinite scrolling are those non full-page panels used to display notifications and messages. These are activated by button-icons in the upper left corner of your timeline. In this blog, we will demonstrate how to create similar panels using slimScroll jQuery plugin in
PrimeFaces.
Please note that the first section of this blog (slimScroll panel without the infinite scrolling) also works for standard JSF projects.
To better demonstrate how to generate XML RSS 2 feeds, we will use a servlet with JDOM 2 library. In this short blog, we will generate only the
required elements plus a few options for feed reader interoperability. Please refer to the RSS 2 documentation for more of the optional elements and
to learn more about the RSS 2 specifications. JDOM 2 is available for download here http://www.jdom.org/.
Below is a sample RSS 2 feed generated by the servlet that follows further down (contents edited for clarity).
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