by Frederik Heremans
July 28th, 2010
Check out this article Paul Tyma (Mailinator) which shows better performance using old-skool java.io instead of the async java.nio, thanks to native threading libs (like NPST on linux).
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June 21st, 2010
The Google’s Open Source Blog announced Google CL, a tool that allows you to use Google services from command-line. They provide commands to work with Blogs, Calendar, Docs, Picasa, contacts and YouTube.
A while back I was messing around with GData java-client, but with command-line access it’s even easier to use googles services in my own little projects…
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January 28th, 2010
Check out project Panopticlick, they are investigating how a browser can create a unique fingerprint which enables users to be tracked, even with cookies disables or deleted… They also provide some tips to minimize the uniqueness of your browser.
My browser is estimated to have a fingerprint that conveys at least 16.08 bits of identifying information.
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January 18th, 2010
I’ve discovered yet another -maybe quite useless- trick to combine java-development, JBoss AS and Ubuntu (or any other debian-based distro).
I created a very simple log4j-appender which used notify-send (commandline-tool for libnotify) to report errors. This way I will get a visual notification when something went wrong, immediately showing the class of the error and the message.
As an example, I use my favorite Application Server, JBoss AS, but any java-app using log4j (or commons-logging on top of log4j or slf4j-log4j) will do.
Categories: Development, Java, Linux, Uncategorized | Tags: fun, Java, log4j, notify-send, ubuntu | 1 Comment
December 12th, 2009
Everyone knows them I guess, the famfamfam silk-icons set. Completely free of charge and they look great! Mark James also created a set of flags (using ISO-3391-2), these can be found here.
When I was using the flags in an app, I noticed that (accoring to the XML’s I downloaded from iso.org containing all country-data) 5 flags where missing. One was Antarctica, but makes sense since it has no official flags. The other I created myself, trying to use the same “style” as the original ones, see below:
: Antarctica (AQ)
: Guersney (GG)
: Saint Barthélemy (BL)
: Saint-Matrin (MF)
: Jersey (JE)
: Isle of Man (IM)
Feel free to use these (was only 10 minutes of work anyway…):
Dowload zipfile containing extra flags
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November 9th, 2009
Here’s an easy way to create a notification from inside eclipse (triggered by your own plugin), without any effort at all. MyLyn-core has a nice popup that looks great cross-platform, fades out and is visible outside the eclipse IDE, even when minimised (and also cross-desktop on ubuntu).
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March 2nd, 2009
Het duurde wat langer dan verwacht, maar hij is er “Traffide Buggy Bison”.
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February 19th, 2009
Hoewel ik vroeger een microsoft-fanboy was, ben ik een jaar en half geleden volledig overgestapt op Linux (Ubuntu). Gisteren nog maar eens bevestigd waarom…
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February 10th, 2009
Heb de huidige source-code in de SVN op Assembla gecommit. Niet letten op de vele TODO’s en crappy coding… Wordt aan gewerkt 
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February 6th, 2009
Heb een Assembla-account aangemaakt voor TraffIDE! Staat nog niet echt veel op, moet de WIKI-pagina nog invullen en source-code comitten in SVN, maar bon…
Iedereen die geïntresseerd om in de toekomst wat te testen (of op termijn mee te developen), mag me altijd een mailtje sturen (frederik [at] stacktrace [dot] be), dan wordt je toegevoegd aan het team
Assembla-space kan je vinden op http://www.assembla.com/spaces/traffide/
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