Let’s say you have an HTML code as this one:

<section>
    <img src="gfx/slider1.jpg" alt=""/>
    <article class="container">
        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
    </article>
</section>

and you skew it using CSS transforms (I’m using LESS):

section {
    position: relative;
    overflow: hidden;
    height: 740px;
    transform: skewY(-2.917deg);

    > img, > article {
        position: absolute;
        left: 0;
        top: 0;
        right: 0;
        bottom: 0;
    }

    > article {
        transform: skewY(2.917deg);
    }
}

It works nicely in all modern browsers, but of course Internet Explorer must give you a headache by presenting jagged, aliased edge:

To force it to antialias the edge, just apply this little fix:

section > img {
    top: -1px;
}

and suddenly it looks like this:

Why? It seems IE antialiases only the transformed element’s edges, but does nothing for its contents. When image is moved beyond parent, skewed element — its antialiasing takes care of stuff.

If it has jagged edges in Chrome, Safari and other Webkit-based browsers, apply another fix:

section {
    -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
    backface-visibility: hidden;
}

Edit the file /lib/udev/rules.d/77-mm-usb-device-blacklist.rules and add following lines:

# MCP2200 USB-Serial adapter
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04d8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00df", ENV{ID_MM_DEVICE_IGNORE}="1"

It’s nice to have all the queries in one place and @NamedQuery give you just that. But what if you need to have parametrized ORDER BY or stuff like that — NamedQueries are static and cannot be modified and ORDER can’t use a parameter.

There is no simple way to customize the NamedQuery, too. You can use setMaxResults but not „setOrder”.

My solution is to read @NamedQuery annotation’s „query” parameter and construct the query myself, adding necessary ORDER BY clause.

The code is (Eclipselink-specific):

import javax.persistence.NamedQuery;
import javax.persistence.Query;
import org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.EJBQueryImpl;
import org.eclipse.persistence.queries.DatabaseQuery;
// (...)
public String getNamedQueryString(String namedQuery) {
    Query tmpQuery = entityManager.createNamedQuery(namedQuery);
    DatabaseQuery databaseQuery = ((EJBQueryImpl) tmpQuery).getDatabaseQuery();
    Class resultClass = databaseQuery.getReferenceClass();

    NamedQuery annotation = (NamedQuery) resultClass.getAnnotation(NamedQuery.class);

    // it's possible there's NamedQueries instead of single NamedQuery annotation
    if (annotation == null) {
        NamedQueries annotations = (NamedQueries) resultClass.getAnnotation(NamedQueries.class);
        for (NamedQuery nq : annotations.value()) {
            if (namedQuery.equals(nq.name())) {
                annotation = nq;
                break;
            }
        }
    }

    return annotation.query();
}
// (...)

If you get exceptions that are something along the lines of

at com.sun.messaging.jms.ra.DirectConnectionFactory._createConnectionId(DirectConnectionFactory.java:424)

try removing the ${glassfish3}/glassfish/domains/domain1/imq/instances/imqbroker/lock file.