Simon Lissack

  https://blog.idrsolutions.com/author/simon/ Simon Lissack is a developer at IDR Solutions, working on JavaFX, Android and the Cloud Conversion service.

 



12 Stories by Simon Lissack

Creating a WordPress Plugin Part 3: Adding Shortcodes

Recently, I’ve been working on a proof of concept project which integrates our JPDF2HTML5 web service with the popular blogging platform WordPress. This series of...
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Creating a WordPress Plugin Part 1: Adding the Admin Page

WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems on the internet. Created using PHP it can handle all things blogging to commercial websites. In...
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Mixed TreeView Nodes in JavaFX

Recently for our JavaFX PDF Viewer I have been working on implementing the Layers panel. If you’re familiar with how layers work in various...
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Creating a WordPress Plugin Part 2: Uploading Media and using Web Services

In my previous article I took a look at getting a basic admin panel to appear in the sample application. In this article, I...
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What are Blend modes in Java?

Blend modes allow you to draw in much more interesting ways than just over-writing one color with another. They are also very easy to...
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How to Use External CSS Files in a JavaFX Application

In JavaFX, there are many ways to skin a application, I’ll take a look at three methods of dynamically loading a css file into...
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