Category Archives: Tools

Tools used by programmers including IDE’s, compilers, debuggers etc

Eclipse Code Recommenders

Thanks to @Vogella I have found out lately about Eclipse Code Recommenders. For anyone using Eclipse or considering a switch from other IDE check out this: Eclipse Code Recommenders This is in my opinion the way to go for the IDE but I wonder how good this can actually get, anyway looks interesting though. What […]

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Improving your Eclipse productivity

One of the quickest ways to improve your productivity as a programmer is to learn your tools. The easiest way to master your tools is to learn its shortcuts and one of the easiest ways to learn shortcuts is to use a flash card based learning software :). As I have moved recently from Netbeans […]

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Installing Artifactory on Ubuntu box

This is a simple and straightforward guide on how to install Artifactory and import exisiting maven repository into it. 1. Download Artifactory from JFrog website 2. Unzip downloaded file in your home directory 3. Change to root user (su -) 4. Set your JAVA_HOME in /etc/environment JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/ PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games" 5. Set your JAVA_HOME in /etc/profile # […]

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Oracle SQL Developer on Ubuntu 10.04 – No brainer instalation guide

This is a short tutorial on how to install ‘Oracle SQL Developer’ on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) platform. 1. Instal sqldeveloper-package package sudo apt-get install sqldeveloper-package 2. Download ‘SqlDeveloper’ itself from Oracle website (you have to be registered prior to download) 3. Install tofrodos package sudo apt-get install tofrodos 4. Create symlinks for dos2unix and unix2dos […]

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Getting started with Apache Click and Eclipse Galileo

Last couple of days I read here and there about Apache Click, which is now in version 2.1.0. It looks preety cool and easy to learn, so I decided to give it a try and see for myself. I understand that its cool to learn things using vi and shell only, but when you tried […]

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Jasperberry – the most dynamic reports ever.

Today I will describe in short my latest and simplest quick and dirty trick, generating jasper report dynamically. Jasperberry is a component written very quickly to help me generate pdf report in a situation where I don’t know the number of columns I will have, I don’t know their widths, the data they contain etc, […]

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Free file sharing service based on Amazon S3

A short note about a brand new rapidshare competition based on Amazon S3 called Storage For Free (www.storage43.com). Without registration you can share here your project files or basically anything you want to share quickly (up to 200 MB no registration required and the file is alive on the server for 30 days), if you […]

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Continuous Integration with CruiseControll.NET

Today I will try to bite quite a big topic which is continuous integration setup for .NET application build using Visual Studio 2008, Vistual Studio Unit Tests and Cruise Control.NET. Continuous integration, in a few simple words works the following way: there are a number of developers working on a project, developers use subversion or […]

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Affirma S3 library for C#

Finally I have found S3 library that works in C#. The library was written by Joel Wetzel from Affirma Consulting and I just wanted to spread the word about it. Once downloaded you are presented with the whole C# Visual Studio solution which contains the library project as well as some example on how to […]

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Linux simple backup with FTP

This is my first post under new domain ‘softwarepassion.com’. I’m planning to blog more from now on as I have loads of new things to blog about :). Today I will present you with simple backup shell script I have running on one of my servers. The script is damn easy and all it does […]

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