Notes
What I’m excited about at the moment:
Archive:
- Appengine (2008)
- Groovy & Grails (2007)
- Prototype & Scriptaculous (JavaScript frameworks)
- Selenium (web application testing tool, very easy to use)
- Spring (application framework including dependency injection, AOP, and much more)
- Maven (java project build tool)
- Continuum (continuous integration)
- Hibernate (ORM including JPA)
- JUnit (java unit testing framework)
Reading that may be interesting:
- Better builds with Maven and Maven : The definitive guide
- Working Effectively with Legacy Code
- Getting Real
- Broken Windows
Specifications:
APIs:
Eclipse plugins:
- AnyEdit – converts tabs to spaces, trims trailing whitespace when saving, and more…
Programming references
XFront tutorials (xml, xsl, xpath, rest etc)
Set up environment variables globally (Ubuntu)
Set variables in /etc/profile, for example, add to the bottom:
export JAVA_HOME=/home/tools/jdk-1.6.0_01
export M2_HOME=/home/tools/maven-2.0.6
PATH=$M2_HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin:${PATH}
Note, to set environment variables for a users terminal session (rather than globally), edit ~/.bashrc
Shutdown
Shutdown and power off from the command line:
shutdown -h -P now
Disk space
To find how disk space is taken up by directories:
du -h --max-depth=1 /tmp/mydir
or for a sorted list:
du -B MB --max-depth=1 /var | sort -n
or for your current directory:
du -sh *
6.7M bin
8.0K boot
8.0K dev
128M etc
7.1G home
257M lib
16K lost+found
12K media
40K mnt
8.0K opt
8.0K proc
51M root
24M sbin
8.0K selinux
8.0K srv
8.0K sys
104K tmp
3.0G usr
303M var
8.0K video
To find out the usage of your partitions/volumes:
root@linux1:/# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 112G 2.9G 104G 3% /
varrun 252M 100K 252M 1% /var/run
varlock 252M 0 252M 0% /var/lock
procbususb 10M 176K 9.9M 2% /proc/bus/usb
udev 10M 176K 9.9M 2% /dev
devshm 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
lrm 252M 18M 235M 7% /lib/modules/2.6.17...
/dev/hdb3 108G 108G 0 100% /mnt/hdb3
/dev/sda1 74G 39G 32G 56% /media/usbdisk
/dev/hdb2 12G 3.8G 7.0G 36% /mnt/hdb2
/dev/hdb1 99M 15M 80M 16% /mnt/hdb1
To convert DOS file to Unix files (to correct the end of line characters):
tr -d '\15\32' < dos-file > unix-file
This page is my Eclipse plugins reference – plugins that I regularly use and find useful. I’ll be updating this post when ever anything changes.
When installing plugins it can be a good strategy to create an extension location, and install your plugins there, rather than in the Eclipse installation itself. This makes the process of upgrading your Eclipse installation much easier.
To find more plugins, try
Subclipse
Name: Subclipse 1.2.x (Eclipse 3.2+)
Update site: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.2.x
Groovy
Name: Groovy Eclipse Plugin
Update site: http://dist.codehaus.org/groovy/distributions/update/
ShellEd
Name: ShellEd Shell script editor
These are my favourite Firefox extensions:
- SeleniumIDE
- FireBug
- YSlow
- WebDeveloper
- ProfileSwitcher
- XPath Checker
- Regular Expressions Tester
- Twitter Fox
Web applications you may find useful:
- Del.icio.us – bookmark (and share) websites
- Also see Furl
- Bloglines – subscribe (and share) to news feeds (blogs, websites etc)
- Meet Up – connect to local people with similar interests
- Campfire – chat with a group of friends
Software
- General
- One-Click VNC – remote control Windows
- CutePDF Writer – print to PDF
- Ext2 IFS for Windows – full access to Ext2/3 disks from Windows
Here’s what I am listening to/watching these days:
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