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Articles


Setting up subversion (svn) repository: on mounted or network drive, using symbolic link (symlink), dynamically under SVNParentPath. Howto, what works and what fails.
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Migration from Maven2 to Maven3. Roadmap, example use case, what to expect
We will discuss the migration process from maven2 to maven3. This article doesn't answer all questions regarding that process, but can serve as a road map and... read all...
Maven3 pom using Groovy, Ruby, Scala, Yaml (Sonatype Polyglot)
During maven3 evaluation I have found this cool feature. Maven3 pom can be pom.groovy, pom.ruby etc read all...
GIT for beginners guide. GIT tutorial for subversion users
We begin with one empty GIT remote repository. Repository is called "test-repo" and located under "test-project" project in gitorious . We will pay no attention to the server side here. read all...
Selenium grid hardware and system requirements. Optimizing for just one GRID or many GRIDs in paralell
Selenium is very sensitive to system configuration. Particularly memory requirements are huge. Here we explore how to setup optimal Selenium Grid system.  read all...
Subversion status and future (what to expect from SVN 1.7)
The future of subversion. I was lucky to visit the "Subversion day in Berlin 2010". Subversion developers talked about the current state of SVN and things to come. Discussed known problems with this tool and features it needs most. read all...
GAnt vs. Ant (comparison, advantages and drawbacks GAnt)
Ant is great and stable tool and yet it has many issues and limitations. GAnt is a newer and yet-not-mature alternative which has no limits. So, is it a time to port your Ant scripts to GAnt? read all...
Port or convert Ant builds to GAnt. Example with maven integration (embedded GAnt)
GAnt may make things simpler. For example, it is a replacement for AntContrib, which served well the ant builders. Porting from ant to gant is actually straightforward, but slight differences in both tools might cost your days of work. read all...
Parsing TeamCity log output. Analyse, find reasons for unique or systematic problems
What is great in TeamCity is how it logs things. You can have it write down every bit of information in the way, that allows you to understand the build process and problems with it read all...
SVN refactoring and other operations made simple (Eclipse and Subversive)
There are many ways to work with subversion in Eclipse. Some will cost you time and are more error prone. read all...
Chmod permissions (flags) explained: 600, 0600, 700, 777, 100 etc..
Want to know what the numbers in chmod mean? Using flags is an easy and short form to set user permissions. read all...
Copy or move Hudson instance to another server. Add slave node to new instance
We have this build Hudson CI, which is always busy. It has old hardware, located in the subnetwork with lots of limitations and thus is always a bottleneck during our builds. We need to relocate... read all...
Developing TeamCity plugins with groovy and spring. Explained, step-by-step example
Recently, I refactored one TeamCity plugin, called groovyPlug. Here is what I learned about developing with Groovy for TeamCity. read all...
Test and Review for Samsung YP-R1 Media Player
I bought this MediaPlayer gadget about 2 weeks ago and used it ever since. Here are my impressions. read all...
Choosing continuous integration (CI) tool. Comparison : CruiseControl, Hudson, Continuum vs. TeamCity
Comparing CI tools: TeamCity vs. the pure Open Source CI. You choosing your CI Tool, what are advantages and drawbacks of commercial CI in comparison with Hudson or Cruise Control? read all...
Artisteer 2: first impressions
Artisteer 2 is the tool for rapid and effective site design. Let us test it read all...
Using "cntlm" as proxy tunnel
"cntlm" is an alternative to ntlmaps proxy/tunnel. It handles most versions of NTLM authorization from linux to windows and is very fast. read all...
Artifact released twice!
Someone in your team or yourself released the Artifact twice or more times. The source was different on two or more occasions. It may be a huge problem! Why, and how can you fix it? read all...
How to combine JOIN ON and WHERE in one query. Versions in SQL and HQL.
In SQL it is not a problem to combine both statements. But there are some syntax differences between the SQL versions. In HQL the JOIN ON can be challenging. Here are some ideas and examples. read all...
Corrupt digital right management (DRM) problem.
You try everything but windows media player just doesn't want to play the DRM protected media. It is the same if you run in browser or standalone.Often, there is a code C00D10B5 error. What can be done? read all...
Step by step guide on installing Windows XP under VM Ware and Linux
Step by step guide. Here is how you can have multiple OS's running on the same system. Use VM Ware. Result will give you two systems in one box, nice performance, mobility, and for beginners, it also costs nothing(with VMWare Player Edition). read all...
Parsing server logs in bash. Simple bash script to visualize the call statistics.
Most servers do write log files. Here is how you can see you site load and where it goes. You can do log file analysis in bash, using grep and awk, and render output in some chatring software. Here is how... read all...
Different methods of j2ee logging system. Their advantages and drawbacks.
During design of the j2ee application, one of the challenges is to create logging systems. Here are some ideas and considerations on how to apply log4j, commons etc... read all...
Maven2 projects with custom local jars
You face the fact, that jars for you new maven project just too custom to be in any repository. Time is an issue. Can you hav maven2 project in 5 minutes? Yes! read all...


How-to's


Prevent GNU make from always removing files. It says things like "rm ..." or "Removing intermediate files...".
How-to create and use local svn (subversion) repository on windows or Linux. Simple and fast step-by-step
Find largest directories on linux. Analyse disk space usage
Best practice. Securely copy huge directories with all attributes and permitions with rsync command ( linux ).
Mount samba or CIFS shares using /etc/fstab
Mount NFS shares with samba or CIFS without password
Fix permission errors on CIFS mounted shares / NFS
Add, partition, format and mount hard disks on linux. Fast and simple step by step guide
find out the latest (last) modification date and time for given directory tree
You can't lock or unlock subversion file. "'file' locked by user 'your.name'". Try "svn -force"
Find out DOS path name (8 character) for the directory
Enabling per directory permissions in subversion (readonly, hidden, with apache, svn access file, LDAP). Tutorial
Command chaining in GNU make. Execute next command depending on success or failure (exit code) of previous command.
Fixing "fatal error C1033: cannot open program database ... vc60.pdb" with make and Visual Studio
Linux (Unix) locate command for windows and dos commad line. Installation, setup and usage
Using pipe and ssh to connect commands between different unix hosts. Output local cat, less, etc into remote files. Grep or watch remote logs
Fix slow or freezing explorer after TortoiseSVN installation in Windows
Assign command output to variable in dos .bat (cmd) shell
Solve client - side problems after upgrading subversion (svn) server 1.6.x
How to commit to svn repository with externals. What if external points to TAG in repo?
Remove user from Gitorious. Using script/console to manage Gitorious from Backend
Ssh key authentication. Specifying alternative identity files (like id_rsa) for different hosts
Fixing 'Too many open files' maven problem. Solution for TeamCity, Hudson, Local and ssh shell environments
Checkout single file (sparse checkout) in Subversion (SVN). Get single file or selected files
Clear (erase) MBR in Linux. Explained
Download ANY java package (jdk, jre). Get specific version for platform an architecture you need from official archive
Java resource loading explained. Absolute and relative names. Difference between ClassLoader and Class resource loading
Search through jar files, find file by name or regular expression
Manual install of newest Git on older Linux distros
Import or clone remote git (gitorious) repository using Eclipse EGit
Compare and synchronize repositories during Svn to Git migration
Analyze and fix selenium grid / RC stability issues with firefox (and other browsers)
Play DVD Disks under Linux, fix problem reading encrypted (scrambled) discs.
Understanding java keytool, working with .crt files, fixing certificate problems
Enable or disable user automatic login (autologin) in GNome
Configure default and alternative executions in maven pom using profiles
Use FoxyProxy or similar proxy switcher for fast switch between proxies. Detect resources, unreachable from (sub) - network
How to dynamically find and assign free ports within maven build. Running local clients and servers in parallel. With selenium example
Fix Eclipse svn, always asking for login and password. Clear keyring or cache
Installing and running Firefox on Debian Linux. Get missing dependencies (shared libs)
Load, make shared objects (.so libraries) available in Unix, script example
Dpkg: check that unix package is installed. Bash script: install package if not present
Apt-get: non interactive install, search for package, uninstall package
Set environment and properties for TeamCity build agent. Reconnect. Use them in projects
Java.getRuntime() problems? Commons "exec" seems to be simple (with killing process from java example)
Simple benchmark and hardware info tool for Linux. Using "hardinfo"
Parse log file with groovy, extract time to detect slow and failed tests or processes
Start and use Xvfb, enable X-server on headless system
Setting ssh remote host environment variables (Interactive shell)
Firefox configuration from command line: edit, change, copy, migrate or backup
Fix "Could not start Selenium session... Error starting browser " (maven + TestNG + headless unix)
Fix "ERROR: Unexpected error in launching a slave. This is probably a bug in Hudson."
Configure (set) hudson slave environment
Fix "Permissions are too open ... private key will be ignored"
Allow user sudo, but exclude some privileges (run shells, etc)
Fix permanent "Error validating server certificate" problem with subversion
Checkout multiple projects from Subversion (SVN) into Eclipse
Recursively create subversion (SVN) directory path
Fix (enable) disabled 'uninstall software' option in Eclipse
Find out exact eclipse version
Make screenshots on Linux or Windows.
Convert eclipse project type. Convert basic eclipse Project to Java
Remove passphrase (password) from private RSA key
Compute MD5 password hash
Automatical USB device mount fails in Ubuntu. Solve "unable to mount ...: not authorized"
Linux package manager has only older version of package. Getting the newest package?
Subversion. Fixing "could not read status line: connection was closed by server"
Add gnome ubuntu application luncher with custom shell environment
Start new subversion (SVN) server
'CREATE INDEX' for mysql Table if field is BLOB
Disable "skypenames.exe wants to use skype" popup during browser start
Move svn server repository to new location
Disconnect and reconnect SVN Project to another location (Subclipse Version)
Maven2 plugin. Fix problem with empty injected classpath variables
Switch between loopback proxy and gateway
Enforce eclipse project generation with Maven2 eclipse:eclipse?
Remove flickering during dvd video playback



Code snippets


[Bash]:Setup public/ private key authentication with ssh, scp, etc. Simple bash login one-liner
[cmd bat]:Working --in-place "sed" option under Windows
[bash]:Find and grep combination in CygWin under Windows or recursive file grep
[cmd bat]:Howto echo or get file timestamp (date) in command (cmd) .bat script
[bash]:Simple calculation (math) in Bash using 'bc'
[awk]:Extract text column in bash using awk pipe
[svn]:Set executable flag for file with svn (subversion)
[bash]:Howto escape the wildcard or asterisk character in bash?
[bash]:Remove all but exclude particular file or directory
[bash]:Automatically (no interaction) install Jdk on Linux
[bash]:Automatically install package with "apt-get install", clean exit if it fails
[bash]:Automatically install dependencies with "dpkg -i"
[java]:Automatically import profiles.xml into maven3 pom.xml
[git]:Set older revision to be the HEAD, revert to previous state with "git push", undo remote history
[bash]:Use grep with regular expression to extract specific substring (-o, --only-matching)
[bash]:Install Debian package (.deb) using "dpkg"
[bash]:Grep and ps, exclude grep itself
[bash]:Use 'watch' command with pipe (with simple process monitor example)
[bash]:Execute Linux command regularly (periodically) with watch
[groovy]:Evaluate dynamic code (string), add and retrieve parameters
[groovy]:Named arguments (parameters) in functions or closures
[gant]:Paralell execution in threads from gant (with calling ant targets)
[gant]:Custom target parameters. Using closures or grobal def.
[gant]:Use Ant properties (with dot-separated java style naming convention)
[gant]:Print or output the ant environment from gant
[gant]:Start gant from maven pom.xml
[bash]:Set variable to contain stderr or stdout (redirect error to out stream)
[java]:Killing system process from java
[bash]:Permanent ssh tunnel
[bash]:Set bash variable to contain the output of command or process. Store process stdout
[groovy]:Convert file to string in Groovy
[bash]:Command line download in bash with wget, decompress tar.gz2 one liner
[bash]:Using "kill" unix command with pipe
[bash]:Execute command as another user in bash script
[bash]:Show user groups (to which given unix user belongs)
[groovy]:Execute bash (cmd, csh etc.) command
[bash]:Recursively change owner and group
[bash]:Copy files between Unix systems
[bash]:Show disk space used by directory
[bash]:Show remaining free disk space
[bash]:Get size of current or any directory
[bash]:Zip current directory into file
[bash]:List symbolic links recursively (include subdirectories)
[groovy]:Convert String to Integer or int
[php]:foreach