Leon Atherton

• /author/leon/ Leon has over 15 years’ Java experience and leads BuildVu, also contributing to cloud services and internal tooling. Wearing many hats across technical and growth roles as a core member, he enjoys motorsport, strategy games, and software side projects.

55 Stories by Leon Atherton

Optimising conversion from float to String in Java

Lets say you have a very specific use case – you want to convert a float to a String in Java, and if the...

October 16, 2012 2 min read

NetBeans “Cannot locate java installation in specified jdkhome”?

I recently came across this message when opening NetBeans after updating my Java version. Cannot locate Java installation in...

September 4, 2012 47 sec read

How to draw SVG on HTML 5 Canvas and why you might want to

One of the limitations of shapes in HTML 5 canvas is that only one fill rule is supported, which can lead to shapes not...

September 3, 2012 53 sec read

SVG shapes not working in Firefox but fine in Chrome, Safari, IE & Opera?

After taking a sneak peak at upcoming PDF to SVG functionality for our Online Converter, I was disappointed to see that shapes were not...

August 29, 2012 1 min read

Why canvas is not a self closing HTML5 tag

While debugging a page produced by our PDF to HTML5 Converter, I noticed that Firefox was showing some of the tags in the HTML...

July 9, 2012 34 sec read

PDF to HTML5 conversion – No Even-Odd Winding Rule for filling shapes in HTML5? – Part 2

This is part 2 on this subject. If you haven’t already read it, please read part 1 to understand the winding problem. So to...

June 25, 2012 3 min read