I was looking for an easy way to populate a combo box with strings taken from an enumeration, and also to be able to pull out Enum objects from the combo box. After some searching, I found EnumComboBoxModel on the JDesktop website, but was not able to find any code.

Instead I came up with an easier solution that did not require me to define a new Model class, but instead uses javax.swing.DefaultComboBoxModel.

Sorry for the disorganization of the code, but hopefully you get the idea.

This function returns a Date object being set at 12 A.M. It is useful for comparing dates where you don't know if they'll come set at the beginning of the day or not.

Classe que pren una frase i una clau i obté com a sortida el missatge encriptat usant l'algorisme de Vigenère.

Classe que donada una frase té com a sortida la mateixa frase però havent-li aplicat la xifra del cèsar (per defecte amb valor 3).

The modus operandi for this is similar to that taken by PHP's implementation of such functions. It's comparitively memory-intensive, but is much faster than running a whole bunch of tests.

Basically, you set a mask -- an array of 256 null bytes -- and set those that correspond to characters you wish to trim. Then, rather than having to test if a character is in the set of characters to trim(O(n), or linear time on *ws), you just test once (O(1), or unit time) to see if the byte in question is set.

And of course, to trim(), you just wrap trim() around both ltrim() and rtrim().

One point of caution: these functions trim in place, so copy strings before trimming them. (Of course, if you usually want access to both pre- and post-trimmed strings, you could always make these malloc() a new string and return a pointer to it . . . )

A simple tool used for fast Exponentiation. Very useful if you are creating your own cryptograpgic methods.

A simple tool used for fast Exponentiation. Very useful if you are creating your own cryptograpgic methods.

Parsing newline-delimited data records in bash is simple, if you have this odd redirect up your sleeve. An annoying thing about bash is that it usually equates all whitespace characters, so the first block in the snippet won't let you use a file linewise, but will end up echoing each whitespace-delimited token on a separate line.

bash provides the "read" builtin which can be used to differentiate between newlines and spaces.

This is a quick and easy class that will generate MD5 hashes from strings. I originally wrote it to insert into my Oracle database so I could generate MD5 hases for passwords from PL/SQL.

Example

String md5Hash = stringMD5("my password");

Computes the difference between two dates in seconds