AOP Timer

    <aop:aspectj-autoproxy />
    <bean id="timer" class="AopTimer" />

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@Aspect
public class AopTimer
{
  private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(AopTimer.class.getName());

  public AopTimer()
  {
    logger.info("---------- instantiating ----------");
  }

  @Around("@annotation(com.helpdeskSos.aop.TimeIt)")
  public Object time(ProceedingJoinPoint jp) throws Throwable
  {
    long start = new Date().getTime();
    try
    {
      return jp.proceed();
    }
    finally
    {
      long end = new Date().getTime();
      String method = jp.getTarget().getClass().getSimpleName() + "." + jp.getSignature().getName();
      logger.info("ellapsed time in " + method + ": " + (end - start) + " (ms)");
    }
  }
}

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@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.METHOD)
public @interface TimeIt
{

}


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  @TimeIt
  public void sendMail(Incident incident)

Scroller following Focus

private function scrollToFocus(e:FocusEvent):void
{
                if (!SCROLLER.verticalScrollBar.visible) return;
               
                var focus:DisplayObject = e.currentTarget as DisplayObject;
               
                var focusTop:Number = 0;
                var focusAncester:DisplayObject = focus;
                while(focusAncester != SCROLLER)
                {
                    focusTop += focusAncester.y;
                    focusAncester = focusAncester.parent;
                }
               

                var focusBottom:Number = focusTop + focus.height;

                var windowTop:Number = FIELDS.verticalScrollPosition;
                var windowBottom:Number = windowTop + FIELDS.height;
               
                // No scroll needed
                if (windowTop <= focusTop && focusBottom < windowBottom) return;
               
                // 10 pixels padding
                FIELDS.verticalScrollPosition = focusTop - 10;
}

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<s:Scroller id="SCROLLER>
   <s:VGroup id="FIELDS">
      <s:Form id="FORM">
                               
         <s:FormItem width="100%" label="Nachname" required="true">
            <s:TextInput id="NAME" width="50%" focusIn="scrollToFocus(event)"/>
         </s:FormItem>

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Install Tomcat 5.5 and 6.0 as Windows Service

sc config Tomcat5 DisplayName= "Apache Tomcat 5.5" (mind the blank after "=")

Modify ports in server.xml:
<Server port="8095" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
<Connector port="8090" protocol="HTTP/1.1"connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443" />
<Connector port="8099" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" />

Packaging iOS apps

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/packaging-air-apps-ios.html