Marc Giombetti » java http://www.giombetti.com Marc Giombetti's blog about computer science and lifestyle. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:24:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 SQL Connection Strings http://www.giombetti.com/2008/09/29/sql-connection-strings/ http://www.giombetti.com/2008/09/29/sql-connection-strings/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:47:52 +0000 marc http://www.giombetti.com/?p=103

In the last couple of weeks I have been working a lot with different databases which I had to connect to from Java. It is sometime stressful to look up the right format of the connection string to the database. Even though, these strings should, or are meant to be standardized, they are not.

I found this very helpful website ConnectionStrings.com which lists the connection strings for open-source as well as professional commercial databases. This list includes among others, the connection strings for Microsoft SQL Server 2008, MySQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, Informix, Postgre SQL, Caché, SQLite, …

I want to share this information with you, because it can save you a lot of time, looking up those strings in tutorials or in the documentation of the different databases.

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]]> http://www.giombetti.com/2008/09/29/sql-connection-strings/feed/ 3 SMSing – SMS client and server http://www.giombetti.com/2006/09/04/smsing-sms-client-and-server/ http://www.giombetti.com/2006/09/04/smsing-sms-client-and-server/#comments Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:27:58 +0000 marc http://www.giombetti.com/2006/09/04/smsing-sms-client-and-server/ SMSing ScreenshotIn this post, I present you a tiny program to send SMS messages through the internet:

SMSing is a simple client/server based application to send SMS text messages through the Internet using Clickatell as service provider. The application supports multiple users, credits, logging aso. In the current version, SMSing should not be used in a productive environment, but shall demonstrate how to use and combine different technologies to send SMS´s. Nevertheless SMSing is really interesting for people sending lots of SMS who are bored to type the text using the keyboard of their mobile phones and pay the high prices of their mobile providers. SMSing even allows you to send anonymous messages, or messages with fake sender-number.

On the server side the application uses PHP for the scripting and mySQL for the storage of the user logins, credits, logging aso. If you configure a callback URL in your Clickatell Central API account, you even get the delivery status and time of your messages.

On the client side a simple Java 5.0 GUI forwards the messages to the server application, and the server application does the logging and billing and forwards the message to the Clickatell servers.

For further information you should consult the Readme file.

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WebsiteWatcher allows you to monitor a specific (static) website for changes. If the page is updated, you immediately get an SMS message as notification. This tool was initially used to monitor university websites where results of exams were published. Please notice that this simple tool only works for static pages. Clickatell is used as SMS provider. It provides a reliable, fast and cheap SMS-gateway for 578 networks in 192 countries.

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