caught Somewhere In Time = true;

test your http posts

2011-12-07T15:58:00.000+02:00

Recently, I write an HTTP client for making post requests. Then I search for a way to test it. It's possible to write unit tests of course but that would be great if I see the real deal. Then I find 'Henry's HTTP Post Dumping Server'. Using his server you can easily test your post request and see its content.

mongodb is evil?

2011-12-03T00:07:00.000+02:00

NoSQL databases were quite popular (with cloud computing and scala) at this year's devoxx and one of these databases was MongoDB. The way you define your models with json-style and the performance benefits seemed like the real power of MongoDB but the following article states that you should reconsider your choice if you choose MongoDB in something other than a toy project. See if mongoDB is evil.

flex likes surprises

2011-11-28T21:48:00.001+02:00

Recently I got an odd error while working on flex. While debugging, I saw that the following code seems to have a value in "container.eGrid.selectedItem" part. It's populated with an object of type MyObject. But "e" of type MyObject is null. Seems nonsense right? I'm just setting what's in right to left. A bit later, I saw that I mapped MyObject to a wrong java remoteclass. When I fixed this

flex surprises again (this time with datefield)

2011-11-22T13:18:00.003+02:00

In my "update" screen (in flex), I'm getting the actual date value from the model and showing it to the user. If the user changes this date value in the screen, no problem; it's working. But if he doesn't touch this date field then the value of it is null as far as I can see while debugging. In my update screen this is the part I define the datefield. < mx:DateField id="endingDateDatefield"

drop thread.sleep(), use timeunit's sleep()

2011-11-15T01:56:00.001+02:00

Everybody has a Thread.sleep() call somewhere in his code. sleep() method only accepts milliseconds and if you need some sleep functionality with another time granularity you have either to calculate the sum of milliseconds and put a magic number in the code Thread.sleep(86400000L); or a more readable way to do it Thread.sleep(1000L * 60 * 60 * 24); or a much more readable way;

queryparameterexception: could not locate named parameter

2011-11-03T10:07:00.000+02:00

While testing my hibernate query I got a strange exception; "nested exception is org.hibernate.QueryParameterException: could not locate named parameter". I checked that the said parameter is in the hibernate model. Furthermore I checked there's a corresponding column in the database. So the problem was not about these. Later I saw that there's a problem while I was trying to set my named

comparing dates in flex

2011-11-02T15:55:00.001+02:00

Let's see how we can compare dates in flex. ObjectUtil.dateCompare(firstDate, secondDate); This call above will return you -1 if secondDate is later than the first date, 1 if it's the contrary case and 0 if they match.

anti-patterns

2011-09-06T14:14:00.000+03:00

I recommend Chris Kelly's anti-patterns article. A good read imo.

fix for the performance problem of mysql memory tables

2011-08-17T13:58:00.003+03:00

In our project, a very high database performance is needed. Thus we create our critical tables as memory engine tables but although our queries are using corresponding indices we still can't achieve the needed performance. After few research in google I see that tables of memory type are having "hash" indices by default. After we drop the "hash" indices and replace them with "b-tree" ones, we had

mockito tutorial video

2011-07-15T10:37:00.002+03:00

I recently find a very good screencast about mockito, a great mocking framework. There it is in three parts:

why my new transaction is not created spring?

2011-07-14T15:28:00.004+03:00

I was inserting a single data from table A to table B and then removing the single instance from table A. I don't want to have a problem if insert happens but the delete does not. So for this action I needed a transactional behavior.I'm using Spring declaratively and thus using TransactionManager for implementing transactional behavior. I declared my method's propagation as REQUIRES_NEW which

surprise with spring while doing dependency injection to a child object

2011-07-11T16:13:00.004+03:00

My child class (ChildDaoImpl) extends a parent class (ParentDaoImpl) and they are both managed by Spring. When I try to call a parent functionality from the child class with super.parentsMethod() I get NullPointerException. I debug and see that the parent's injections are not complete at all. The DataSource field that should be injected in ParentDaoImpl is null. But the injection definitions seem

problem while using dbcp with oracle database

2011-06-13T23:11:00.006+03:00

We have two different databases in a project; an Oracle and a MySql one. Both of them need connection pooling for a better performance. First, I add dbcp context for mysql to my application context. The settings were quite straightforward. But when I try to use the same settings (except for the connection url and the driver class name of course) for the Oracle data source I got the following

three screens in vlc media player while playing wmv

2011-06-07T21:14:00.004+03:00

If you're trying to watch a video of Windows Media Video (WMV) format with vlc player but vlc is opening three windows of the video in the same time let me give you a hand. First open Video - Video Track from the menu and then select disable and then track 1. One window is better than three for a movie, right?

EmptyResultDataAccessException in your face

2011-05-30T15:24:00.003+03:00

Recently I get an EmptyResultDataAccessException in a project where we use Spring JDBC. The full exception listing is "org.springframework.dao.EmptyResultDataAccessException: Incorrect result size: expected 1, actual 0". When I trace the exception I see that I'm calling queryForLong() method of JdbcTemplate for "SELECT Column FROM TABLENAME" on an empty table. Column here is of Long type. Now, I

a great way of improving your java code: findbugs!

2011-05-11T14:10:00.002+03:00

We decided to make our project's code more robust and bug-free. I suggested the use of Findbugs which is basically a program that uses static analysis to search for bugs in your java code. It can be used as IDE plug-in or as a stand-alone application. Findbugs pinpoints problematic places in your code. There are many type of pre-defined problems that Findbugs looks for like duplicate case

bufferedwriter or windows, which one of you is my enemy?

2011-02-22T16:49:00.004+02:00

I was planning to name a file I generated using the username and the date of generation, so my naming format was like "01-03-2010-13:33-user1". When I'm trying to do that with BufferedWriter of our beloved Java, this file is not created. ":" is not allowed by Windows so a file with "01-03-2010-13" as a name is created and nothing is inserted although I called bufferedWriter.write("something").

thank you axis2 for this handful of close_wait

2011-02-07T09:15:00.008+02:00

In one of our projects we are using axis2 1.4 for generating the client side of the web service. Our web service part is working for few hours but gets stuck for no apparent reason. After I investigate a little I saw that it generates lots of sockets with CLOSE_WAIT state which results this freeze. I google a bit about similar problems with Axis2 and saw that this a known bug. Here's the source I

no such method? you must be joking java.lang.NoSuchMethodError

2011-02-03T09:09:00.003+02:00

In our project we use Spring Security's new release and we didn't care about the versions of different Spring components like Spring Beans, Core etc and probably left few old versions next to new versions. The result is a nice exception and I had to figure out why.java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.beans.MutablePropertyValues.add(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;)Lorg/

et tu log4j? java.lang.classnotfoundexception: org.apache.log4j.enhancedpatternlayout

2011-01-14T17:18:00.003+02:00

While I was setting log4j for our new project I got the following exception:log4j:ERROR Could not instantiate class [org.apache.log4j.EnhancedPatternLayout].java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.log4j.EnhancedPatternLayoutI have log4j in my pom and its jar in my local repository so why EnhancedPatternLayout is missing? This class is not in our log4j but in log4j-extras. You have to add the

classcastexception while working with quartz + spring

2011-01-14T09:00:00.007+02:00

I was trying to integrate Quartz to Spring and while everything seemed OK I got the following exception:java.lang.ClassCastException: org.quartz.impl.StdSchedulerI had everything in hand for the simple job I implemented to work.A simple Job class that implements QuartzJobBean:public class Job extends QuartzJobBean{ protected void executeInternal(JobExecutionContext jobExecutionContext) throws

datetime fun with mysql: when do i lost my time?

2011-01-11T19:48:00.004+02:00

In our project, we chose the data type of a column as datetime in MySQL. We built models that are in line with our tables. For the datetime attribute in the database I chose to use the Date object in Java model and the show begun.When I tried to use my model's Date attribute for setting the corresponding field (with setDate()) on the prepared statement I saw that the object types dont match. What

google's guava library tutorial part 5: back to the primitive(s)

2010-11-22T11:21:00.022+02:00

In the fifth part of my tutorial, I'll try to show you the Primitives package of Google Guava library. Primitives package offers several classes to work on primitives or arrays of primitives which are not found in the corresponding wrapper classes (e.g. Boolean for booleans) or Arrays. I will begin with Ints which's the helper class for int related operations. Although it's open to discussion,

top 9 of 97 things every programmer should know

2010-10-22T17:18:00.004+03:00

Brian Du Preez picked 9 things out of 97 Things every programmer should know. I recommend to take a look to the article.

soap basics

2010-10-15T15:05:00.003+03:00

Nicholas Quaine has a great SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) basics tutorial here. As I was not a pro in web services, it was quite helpful for me for getting the basics.

Could not calculate build plan: Missing: maven-resources-plugin:maven-plugin:2.4.1

2010-09-01T11:43:00.002+03:00

While I was trying to take Quartz using Maven I got "Could not calculate build plan: Missing: maven-resources-plugin:maven-plugin:2.4.1" error. What now? Everything was working just fine! To fix this, find where your local repo is, then go to "/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/", remove "2.4.1" directory and do "update dependencies" from Maven.

eclipse keymap on intellij idea

2010-08-20T16:02:00.003+03:00

As you probably know I'm a fan of Eclipse. In our current project, we are using IntelliJ Idea as ide. Obviously I want to use Eclipse shortcuts on IntelliJ Idea but how?Open File > Settings > Keymap and change the keymap to Eclipse. You can set Netbeans shortcuts from there too.

a warm welcome

2010-08-18T11:20:00.003+03:00

I had a warm welcome from Tomcat while I was trying to learn JSF. It's a JasperException and its message is "#{...} is not allowed in template text". I was quite confident with my code so I was surprised. Later I saw that I missed two lines from the header of my JSP page.<%@ taglib prefix="f" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"%><%@ taglib prefix="h" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"%>

google's guava library tutorial part 4: taste the functional programming flavor in java with predicates

2010-08-12T09:38:00.020+03:00

In this blog entry, I'll try to explain another functional programming feature introduced by Google Guava library: Predicates. They work like the Function class with the difference that they just return a boolean value. It's possible to use Predicates for filtering elements in an Iterable that satisfy the given Predicate or to check if all/any element in an Iterable satisfies the given

google's guava library tutorial part 3: taste the functional programming flavor in java

2010-05-17T21:47:00.014+03:00

Java is not a functional programming language but thanks to Google Guava Library you can incorporate functional programming with it. In the third part of my tutorial I'll talk about Function which's one of the two classes related to the functional programming. The other is the Predicate class.If you are not familiar to functional programming, I can briefly say that functions are like factories.

google's guava library tutorial part 2: joys of Ordering

2010-05-13T15:27:00.050+03:00

In the first part of my tutorial , I explained anything related to Strings in Guava. In this part of my tutorial, I will explain the Ordering class which combines the power of Comparators with Collections' functionality and which adds other interesting features (such as compound comparators). This class is really useful if you need to order your Iterable, find the maximum/minimum element in your

google's guava library tutorial part 1: fun with string-related stuff

2010-05-11T13:27:00.015+03:00

I was planning to create a Guava tutorial. But it seems like it'll be too large for a single post, so I opted on splitting it into several parts. The first part contains everything related to Strings. Four main classes are explained: CharMatcher (which can be considered as a light form of JDK's Pattern+Matcher with string manipulation capabilities) Joiner and MapJoiner (which are useful for

10 ways to suck at programming

2010-05-06T15:30:00.003+03:00

FinalInt has a "don't do these" article for programmers. You have to check it; it's awesome.

use an online todo list

2010-05-05T13:27:00.005+03:00

Using an online todo list is quite practical if you don't like keeping this kind of stuff old fashioned way. If you are a gmail fan like me, I'm sure you'll find "tasks" service of gmail useful. Tasks in gmail is a nice todo list where you can assign due dates to items and where you can keep multiple todo lists. I recommend it to anyone who emails reminders to himself. You can find its link in

use maven on eclipse

2010-05-04T14:41:00.004+03:00

Maven is a popular project management tool and it is quite practical to use it on Eclipse with the help of m2eclipse. To install m2eclipse in Eclipse: Help > Install New Software.Paste http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e in "work with:" field and press enterChoose the only component listed under m2eclipseClick next and finish.Notice that it's a good idea to install JDK so that Eclipse can

are your passwords weak?

2010-04-06T16:41:00.003+03:00

One man's blog contains a very nice article about password weaknesses and tips on building strong passwords. I recommend it to anyone with an interest on using stronger and harder to crack passwords.

op4j - a useful java library

2010-03-17T16:30:00.005+02:00

op4j is a cool java library with lots of nice features. Let's hear the definition of op4j from the official website;It is a Java library aimed at improving quality, semantics, cleanness and readability of Java code, especially auxiliary code like data conversion, structure iteration, filtering, mapping. These are the features of the library (again, from the website):Apply functions on object:

old versions of applications

2010-03-03T10:17:00.004+02:00

Didn't you sometimes feel the need to use an older version of an application instead of the current version? If your answer is yes, then a time-consuming adventure lies before you. Or you can check two websites I'll recommend. OldVersion.com and OldApps.com are there to help you in your quest for older versions of popular applications.

string manipulation in java part 1: reverse a string

2009-12-30T11:00:00.008+02:00

In these series, I'll try to provide code fragments for daily problems in string manipulation. First, we will see how to reverse a string. Note that there are -naturally- more than one way to do this.public class StringUtils { public static String reverseString(String string){/*Check if the string is not null and empty*/ if(string != null && !string.isEmpty()){/*Create a StringBuilder from the

listen to free music online

2009-12-29T09:17:00.003+02:00

I talked about justhearit which's a music streaming service. Grooveshark is a great alternative to justhearit. The design of the website and the music archive are awesome. Check it!

change your status in multiple social networks

2009-12-28T14:02:00.003+02:00

You can change your status in multiple social networking websites (facebook, myspace, twitter, plurk, linkedin, tumblr, hi5, plaxo ) using quub. Quite practical for those who actively use multiple networking websites.

the worst job ever

2009-12-23T16:45:00.002+02:00

Chris Hardin shares his bad experiences on his last job as a Senior Software Architect. Take a look here and see if there are similar problems you experience.

mockito tutorial

2009-12-17T16:59:00.003+02:00

Mockito makes life easier for anyone who's writing unit tests. First I planned writing a brief tutorial for Mockito but then I saw Brett L. Schuchert's mockito tutorial. It is as detailed and clear as it can be. I recommend it.

star wars: the force unleashed II

2009-12-14T19:45:00.004+02:00

You can watch Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II trailer below. Starkiller is loaded and ready to rock! Video Games | Spike TV VGAs 2009 | Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II Exclusive Debut TrailerXBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

le roi est mort, vive le roi!

2009-12-13T12:03:00.002+02:00

Boxtorrents which was a great torrent tracker for animé changed its name (and domain). You can find it as BakaBT. Vive le nouveau roi!

no operator overloading in java? tell it to + operator

2009-10-25T11:55:00.004+02:00

Lets begin with the wikipedia definition of operator overloading.In computer programming, operator overloading (less commonly known as operator ad-hoc polymorphism) is a specific case of polymorphism in which some or all of operators like +, =, or == have different implementations depending on the types of their arguments.It's generally thought that Java does not support operator overloading

refactoring my code (with a little help from my friend Eclipse)

2009-10-10T13:30:00.016+03:00

In this post, I'll explain few refactoring tricks and we will use the help of Eclipse as much as possible. Here we go!Map> personalItemsMap = new HashMapMap>();// for darth vaderList vaderList = new ArrayList();vaderList.add("lightsaber");vaderList.add("helmet");vaderList.add("armor");personalItemsMap.put("darth vader", vaderList);// for

new metal gear peace walker trailer

2009-10-04T22:16:00.004+03:00

Check the new metal gear solid: peace walker trailer from the Tokyo Game Show 2009.The plot is confusing even for the fans of the series, but we eagerly wait for the magnificient work that'll be delivered by Hideo Kojima.

google collections api

2009-09-18T13:22:00.004+03:00

Every developer that works with Java collections for some time will realize the limitations of Java's Collections API. It looks like Google developers share the same opinion which results in the development of their own API. Benjamin Winterberg has a good blog entry about the said API.

twitter

2009-09-15T12:47:00.007+03:00

I got my twitter account. Tweet me!

eclipse magic part 2: correct indentation automatically

2009-08-14T10:43:00.005+03:00

Eclipse tries to offer a correct indentation while you're writing your code, but there are times it does not work well. In result, you got a less readable code. Either you have to correct its indentation by hand or you have to use the eclipse magic. for(Float number : numberList) System.out.println(number); // need an indentationhere Collections.sort(numberList, new FloatComparator());

method overloading in java (with umberto tozzi)

2009-08-12T19:05:00.011+03:00

Method overloading allows you to use the same method name with different arguments. As long as the "different arguments" constraint holds, you are free to change the return type, the access modifier and the thrown exception of the method. Lets see it on an example. private void sings(String lyrics){ System.out.println("Tozzi sings these lyrics: "+lyrics); } public void sings(int times){

"my grandmother is 91 years old and I think it'll take me 55 hours to implement that feature"

2009-08-11T10:15:00.003+03:00

Ben Northrop has a nice blog entry about estimation (of time or economic value). I find the MIT experiment in the article very interesting. Check it out.

how to sort using comparators

2009-08-08T11:21:00.006+03:00

Although Collections class' sort method is quite handy, there will be times you'll need to do tricky stuff while sorting. But you can still use this static method with your Comparator that'll ensure the desired sorting behavior.Lets quote the definition of Comparator class:A comparison function, which imposes a total ordering on some collection of objects. Comparators can be passed to a sort

eclipse magic part 1: automatically generate getters and setters for your instance variables

2009-08-07T14:24:00.004+03:00

Everyone who tried to write a getter / setter (accessor, mutator) method for more than 2-3 fields knows that it's a pain. Eclipse can automatically generate a getter/setter method for the instance variable you choose. Assume that I have a java bean for a student (StudentBean).public class StudentBean { private int studentId; private String name; private float gpa;}If I'm going to write a get/set

burpee the ultimate workout!

2009-08-05T20:02:00.003+03:00

Pretty confident title right? This exercise develops lots of different muscles and does not take too much time. I've been doing burpee for few months and I can't recommend it enough. Take a look at the video below for doing it right.Fusion Fitness TV EP. 4: The Burpee Part 4, Full BurpeeYükleyen FusionFitnessTV. - Diğer müzik videolarına göz atın.

transformers: revenge of the fallen f.a.q.

2009-06-27T21:49:00.003+03:00

Topless Robot has an hilarious f.a.q. about the second transformers movie. It is just GREAT. Lots of plot holes, inconsistencies are revealed. Take a look at this faq.

constructor tricks: constructor overloading, calling constructor from constructor

2009-06-27T17:19:00.007+03:00

Did I catch your attention with the megan fox picture?I assume that the answer is yes, great.Constructor overloading is not really different from a method overloading.In practice, all you have to do is to give different arguments to similar methods.For a Fruit class, Fruit(String name_, int count_) and Fruit(String name_, int count_, String color_) are both constructors. They are similar in

13 minutes of "god of war III" heaven

2009-06-20T11:10:00.004+03:00

God of War I and II are both excellent games which were released on playstation 2 platform. Later, God of War: Chains of Olympus which was again a great game is released on PSP. The subsequent game -God of War III- is probably one of the most anticipated games of playstation 3 platform. You can watch 13 minutes of blood, sweet and tears from God of War III below.Video Game - E3 2009 - Videos

resizing pictures in batch

2009-06-14T11:32:00.004+03:00

You got photos of last night and you want to submit to facebook or send them to your friends. But there's a little problem: the pictures are too big for uploading. You can resize them so they'll take less space and then it'll be less painful to post it somewhere or to send it to some friend of yours. But there's another problem. Will you resize the pictures one by one? What if there are more than

metal gears?

2009-06-03T19:56:00.006+03:00

Yeah, metal gears indeed with a big S in the end. There are two metal gear projects. The first one in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker where Hideo Kojima -probably because of his claim that he won't participate to future metal gear projects- stresses on his high level of participation to the project. The game will probably be a similar game to Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops in terms of release

vncconfig's copy/paste bug

2009-05-27T22:50:00.004+03:00

I'm doing my coding on a workstation by connecting to it with a vnc client. To be able to do copy/paste or cut/paste between my computer and the workstation I use vncconfig. But there are times it does not work at all. You copy your text on one computer and when you try to paste it on the other computer, nothing happens. I discovered a workaround for this. Assume that you're trying to copy/paste

new metal gear? (part 2)

2009-05-27T22:39:00.006+03:00

Kojima strikes again! Kojima Production Website contains a teaser of a new metal gear game in which we will probably see Big Boss as the hero. I captured the picture in the right from the teaser.Game's details like on which platforms it'll be available will be -probably- revealed in E3. If there's going to be a second metal gear on Playstation 3, there'll be no escape for me from buying it (this

fixing inverted controls in x-men origins: wolverine the game

2009-05-21T23:21:00.004+03:00

All controls in X-Men Origins: Wolverine game was inverted when I was trying to use my gamepad (which is not an xbox360 gamepad), which means that up was down and right was left. To fix this issue, open your game installation directory. Then open the WGame and then Config folder. After that, edit DefaultInput.ini and find Bindings=(Name="XboxTypeS_LeftY",Command="Axis aBaseY Speed=1.0 DeadZone=

dragonball: evolution is more than 1.5 times better than dragonball: evolution

2009-05-13T22:49:00.004+03:00

An average anime fan would know Dragon Ball or Dragon Ball Z which are both works of mangaka Akira Toriyama. Although I'm not a big fan of both series, I can't help myself hating the live action movie project after seeing its trailer. From the look of it, the only likeness between the movie and the animé is the character names.After the psp game news of the same movie, I begin to think if things

esoteric programming languages

2009-05-04T12:47:00.002+03:00

Wikipedia has an awesome article about esoteric programming languages. Only few of them is designed for being adopted for real world problems. But the majority of them are quite interesting and entertaining. Take a look at Brainfuck for instance. You won't meditate much on the naming of this programming language after seeing the Hello World example.++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+

recommendation for people with desire to throw money away: burningairlines.com

2009-04-27T20:17:00.005+03:00

About half a year ago, I ordered bunch of t-shirts from burningairlines.com. I never got these t-shirts and neither burningairlines, nor usps did care what happened to my order. If you got loads of money to throw away, I highly recommend you to shop from burningairlines; satisfaction guaranteed.

secrets of list class part 2: xAll strikes back

2009-04-24T20:48:00.009+03:00

I continue my series of entries about less known features of the List class and today I'm going to explain the uses of addAll(), retainAll(), removeAll() methods.Assume that you have two Lists and you want to merge them somehow./* list1 consists of [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] and list2 consists of [6, 7, 8, 9]*//* I want to merge both lists*//* I can use addAll and add list2 at the end of list1*/list1.addAll

concurrentmodificationexception or: how I learned to stop worrying and loved for-each loop as it is

2009-04-19T19:53:00.008+03:00

Few days ago, I got a ConcurrentModificationException out of nowhere while I was iterating through a list and removing elements from it. I remember doing this thing and not getting any exception. I delved a little bit and realized that the exception is thrown because of my misuse of for-each loop (introduced in jdk 5). Its developers noted: Consider, for example, the expurgate method. The program

secrets of list class part 1: constructor tricks

2009-04-18T20:45:00.008+03:00

List classes in Java can be thought as resizable arrays. They are very frequently used as they are handy. In this part of the article, I'll show you two constructor tricks that can become quite useful in special cases. The first trick is for using an existing list content for creating a new list. The second trick is for ensuring the element capacity of a list. You can ask yourself why are we

10 things every programmer should know for their first job

2009-04-11T23:32:00.004+03:00

James Stroup has a great article which can be quite useful for programmers who get their first job. I can't recommend it enough.

bookmarking or launching several websites with a single click

2009-04-02T00:36:00.005+03:00

There are lots of open websites and you want to check them later? Or there are several sites you want to open with a single click, so you don't have to open them one by one? Then, here comes maxthon 2's magical solution; using the groups.Assume that there are several website tabs and you want to save them. You should Open groups Click on Add all tabs as group Enter group name Press OK :)

suggested small language changes for jdk 7

2009-03-31T01:24:00.003+03:00

Project Coin has the goal of grouping language changes suggested for JDK 7. David Linsin has brief listing of these proposals with code examples to clearify things. I suggest you to take a look.

how to fix sudo command in zenwalk 6

2009-03-30T01:55:00.004+03:00

What you wait from sudo command is that it gives you the power of root for a single command. But you'll notice that it does not work properly in Zenwalk 6. To fix it;check your group by opening your start menu > system > control panel > user profiles > list users > your_username > hit ok > note groupname valueopen Terminaltype su and login (then you become root)type mousepad /etc/sudoersedit the

5 great men who built their great careers on great plagiarism

2009-03-29T23:49:00.003+03:00

Cracked has a great article about five famous men who built their careers on plagiarism. It's fun and enlightening. Take a look!

remove last login information from zenwalk start-up

2009-03-27T01:55:00.007+02:00

I have a new toy called Zenwalk and I'm using auto-login as usual for buying some time. But there's something bothering me with my new toy; in every boot, it shows me my last login's time and date and there's no way to get rid of this thing through zenwalk's settings. For removing this annoyance, you have to follow these steps:open Terminaltype su and logintype mousepad /etc/pam.d/system-auth

you wish you could catch and cancel that email you sent, don't you?

2009-03-21T13:09:00.008+02:00

If your answer to the title of this entry is yes or YES or several time yes/YES, then rejoice because now gmail can undo emails. After you send an email with google mail, you have five seconds to change your opinion and cancel sending this mail. It is an inarguably useful feature considering how many times you (I) wish you (I) didn't send "that" email. A job application without a CV attached to

netbeans 6.5 and struts 2

2009-03-19T12:52:00.006+02:00

It is not really straightforward to add Struts 2 capabilities to Netbeans 6.5, so I'll try to explain it in details.Go to nbstruts2support project's page and download two nbm files under the "release modules" folder.Open netbeans 6.5 > tools > plugins > downloaded > add plugins. Then choose both nbm files and click next until the installation is complete.You can now create java web projects with

data mining in hr department?

2009-03-18T20:57:00.003+02:00

Businessweek has a short article about the usage of data mining in human resources departments. Although the article is -unfortunately- free of statistical details, it's still an interesting read for learning the practical uses of data mining. In this example, data mining is used for assessing "values" to workers for extracting important and less important workers.

ibm is planning to buy sun

2009-03-18T15:49:00.007+02:00

Although there's no official statement on the matter, world street journal informs us of the possibility that IBM is planning on buying Sun. I wonder what will happen to Netbeans if that transaction takes place. Even though I largely choose Eclipse over Netbeans, it won't be cool to lose that IDE. I still think that Netbeans is better than Eclipse for web development on Java.

madworld

2009-03-13T14:26:00.004+02:00

MadWorld is one of the rare mature games Wii has to offer; a distinctive visual style, a good plot and a game to revive the genre which's dead for years. I wish I had a wii for the first time. Check ign's review:

music, movie, book recommendations from tastekid

2009-03-07T12:02:00.005+02:00

There are lots of sites for recommending music, books or movies based on your tastes. TasteKid is one of them and it offers good recommendations (as far as my tiny number of tests proves). Usually, it returns a high number of recommendations and thus it can fetch several unsimilar results which's its achilles' heel.TasteKid has an interesting feature. Assuming you choose to search a movie, it

top 16 useful shortcuts in eclipse

2009-03-06T01:21:00.003+02:00

Code of Doom presents the most useful Eclipse shortcuts. If you're using Eclipse for sometime you'll know some of them for sure, but there could be some shortcuts you missed. Check it!

an eclipse summit in istanbul? here comes eclipsist!

2009-03-05T18:26:00.003+02:00

In 28, 29 april, an Eclipse summit (Eclipsist) will be held here in Istanbul. Eclipsist will contain some workshops and speeches about subjects pertaining to Eclipse (can't you believe?) and Java EE. The fact that there's no entrance fee to the summit obviously increases its charm.

revolution renaissance shares two songs for free

2009-03-05T12:50:00.003+02:00

Stratovarius used to be one of my favorite power metal bands. After the band split up, the lead guitarist/main composer Timo Tolkki left the band for forming a new one named Revolution Renaissance which released a so so debut album. Revolution Renaissance shares two songs from their upcoming album for free (let me note that their website have a problem with Internet Explorer). Fingers crossed for

take one line notes easily in linux with touch (of evil)

2009-03-02T16:14:00.011+02:00

You're reading some comics or watching some serie and you want to take note of the last book/episode you read/watched so, few days later, you can continue from where you have left. One of the most practical ways of doing that is to put a reminder in the comic/serie directory. No need to create a text file named "tome-11" or "scrubs-s05-e11", you can create an empty file with the desired name in a

find the process id of an application in linux

2009-02-28T00:29:00.005+02:00

In one of my previous posts, I talked about killing unresponsive processes in Linux. It is pretty straightforward to find the process ids of applications if you're the only user, but if that's not the case you have to find a clever way. Assume that we want to find the process id of bash. We write ps -A to the terminal for seeing all active processes but we don't have 1 hour to inspect all

name the node

2009-02-27T00:35:00.006+02:00

NASA offers you the chance to name a component (node 3) of a space station and one of the choices is "Serenity". Terrific!

comic book reader

2009-02-26T01:10:00.003+02:00

I use Cdisplay on Windows for reading comic books (in cbr and cbz formats which are basically rar and zip archives containing image files). I searched for a similar application on Linux and found few alternatives. One of the best of these applications is Qcomicbook which can be obtained thru synaptic package manager or by writing "apt-get install qcomicbook" (assuming -of course- your linux

italics! everywhere!

2009-02-26T00:46:00.003+02:00

Today, I saw that Google's font is in italics and another website's font is in italics and some application's font is in italics; what a lovely coincidence! I had no idea how this happened, but fonts switched to italic mode without asking my opinion. The odd thing's that Firefox doesn't have this problem. For fixing this, I downloaded arial font and installed it. I was planning to download and

public tracker list for torrents

2009-02-19T13:20:00.003+02:00

Sometimes I bump into torrent files with unreachable trackers (due to the blocking of my ISP) and then either I have to find an alternative tracker for being able to download the file or find an alternative torrent with a reachable tracker. I generally choose the first option and everytime I see a torrent file with unreachable tracker(s), I add several public torrent trackers to its tracker list

distros with xfce

2009-02-17T00:20:00.003+02:00

As I wrote previously, Xfce is the best choice as desktop environment for older PCs. Planete Beranger reviews several distros that comes with Xfce. It's rather thorough. Check this distro review.

just hear it! listen to any song you want; online, free and legal

2009-02-15T14:31:00.004+02:00

Just Hear It! is an awesome website that makes lots of songs available to anybody for listening. Its service is free and all you need is a flash plug-in. Even obscure bands/songs is available for listening and the service is legal (at least the website says so). Give it a try!

generate your favicon

2009-02-14T10:17:00.002+02:00

Favicon Generator offers favicon generation service by either using your image files to generate favicons, or by giving you the chance to design your own favicon with a very simple tool. The whole service is web-based and it works quite good.

igoogle's language switching proglem

2009-02-13T18:48:00.004+02:00

I'm using iGoogle because I like the idea of having a personalized homepage with my e-mails, todo list, current weather information and aggregated news from different sources in it. But although I'm using a Windows Vista in English, iGoogle keeps on turning the language to Turkish (probably due to the regional settings of my Windows) and lots of its content are changing (which annoys me very much

crank 2 trailer

2009-02-11T14:22:00.004+02:00

Crank 2: High Voltage just continues from where the first one left. Lots of mindless violence, lots of girls, lots of gun fights. Again a movie that does not take itself serious. Chev Chelios rocks!

ready to kill some processes/applications in linux?

2009-02-03T14:38:00.005+02:00

In Linux -as in all modern Operating Systems-, applications become unresponsive and you may want to kill the process pertaining to them. To do this, open the terminal and write this:killall applicationNameIf that does not work trykillall -9 applicationNameIf you don't have an idea about the application name, you can take look at the current processes by writingpsthen to kill the processes you

better touchpad performance in linux mint

2009-02-02T16:49:00.010+02:00

After some time with Linux Mint I realized that I'm not fully satisfied with the behavior of my touchpad and thought about downloading a program which will allow me to tweak it. I downloaded gsynaptics thru synaptic package manager and edited xorg.conf for gsynaptics to work. First you should open xorg.conf with a text editor. There's a text editor called Mousepad that's bundled to Linux Mint. So

new batman game: "batman: arkham asylum"

2009-02-01T19:55:00.004+02:00

The trailer of the new batman game "Batman: Arkham Asylum" can be seen below. The voice acting is not bad, and the plot seems ok. I wonder how many hours per day batman spends body building and what amount of steroids does he use. He looks like a goddamn body building champion.

maybe the most widely used chord sequence ever

2009-01-31T16:53:00.003+02:00

Take a look here to see (and listen) one of the most popular chord sequences in songs. Lots of "good" songs use it huh?