This is most frustrating thing that I experience when I encounter Solaris bash prompt: the Home, End and Delete keyboard keys will not work because for some reason Solaris doesn’t understand them as useful keys. But there is the way to enable those keys! Add following lines to your ~/.bashrc file: # home key bind [...]
I use VMWare to run a bunch of different Linux VMs on my home PC, which is running Vista SP1. Today I encountered strange thing: Linux VM won’t get an IP address from VMWare DHCP. I’ve opened VMWare Virtual Networks management console (as Administrator, of course, or it won’t let you make and save any [...]
I created sample JBOSS Seam project in Eclipse and decided to generate entity code from existing database. It worked fine, but when I try to run it, it shows me that Hibernade is not able to map entity beans to the corresponding tables. The error message is like this: org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException: <your table> is not mapped [...]
After yesterday’s success in installation of Team Concert, I went through the “Do and Learn” tutorial. The amount of new information and, especially, new views in IDE, is overwhelming! Though the tutorial tries its best to guide through sample project, it would take my time to digest the information. So far, I managed to get [...]
Image via CrunchBase After rave reviews from my coworkers, who seen the IBM presentation, I decided to give it a try on my local machine. As it usually happens with IBM beta software, the expectancy of it working is close to zero. Let’s give it a try this time, could it be better? First, I [...]
Use Ant! <delete includeemptydirs=”true” > <fileset dir=”${checkout.dir}” defaultexcludes=”false” > <include name=”**/.svn/” /> </fileset> </delete>
There is all so common situation when you have to go to once a week to a website, and you have to login to it and your browsers is not asking you about remembering that password. So you have to remember that password and its getting out of your head and you have to spend [...]
Excellent article on branching in Subversion. One thing missing is the branch timeline chart. Something like this: Where horisontal line is the trunk timeline and angled lines are releases. Based on my experience, that chart often helps developers to understand when branches are created and how to deal with them.
I was reading a lot of Ruby on Rails books in order to start my own project. I found the thing, which really disturbes me: though Ruby is a proper OO language, none of OO desugn features are presented in Rails books. Proper Object Oriented Design should simplify software development by introducing abstraction from unneccessary [...]
Just made a configuration change on my hosting account: disabled Java in order to get Ruby-On-Rails