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Thoughts For Beans: April 2010
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Thoughts on Java development, technology, interesting links etc. Friday, April 30, 2010. NFJS 2010 - Northern Virginia Software Symposium. I am attending the No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium. Unfortunately I just found out about the symposium less than 2 weeks back so I couldn't convince my company to fund my tickets (who knows if they change their mind in the next weeks? Posted by Pedro Burglin. Saturday, April 10, 2010. Quick web app prototyping with AppFuse. Quick web app prototyping with AppFuse.
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Thoughts For Beans: Setting up a Maven repository proxy with Nexus
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Thoughts on Java development, technology, interesting links etc. Saturday, November 21, 2009. Setting up a Maven repository proxy with Nexus. Hey, quick hint: if you need quick get-to-the-point instructions on how to setup a free Maven repository proxy you can skip this section and scroll down to the next one. But, if you have some time to spare and are curious to know why one would need to setup his own Maven repository proxy, please bear with me a little and keep reading. I don't know about you, but I ...
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Thoughts For Beans: UML diagram editors
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Thoughts on Java development, technology, interesting links etc. Friday, December 11, 2009. Now the question is, how someone who's not a superfast gifted designer can create decent looking diagrams fast? So what can I do when I need to write diagrams so they at least look decent and describe the concepts and ideas I am trying to document? And are finished quick so I can move on to other tasks? Well tools that automatically generate the diagrams for me is a good start, I would think. Different than most s...
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Thoughts For Beans: Mobile-friendly websites
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Thoughts on Java development, technology, interesting links etc. Thursday, September 20, 2012. Many people these days rely more on their mobile devices - phones, tablets etc - to access the Internet than on desktop / laptop computers. As such, it is a common requirement in many websites today that we design / test / tune the usability not just for different computer browsers but also for mobile devices. Http:/ www.initializr.com/. Another option is to pick few tweaks from the projects above and add it in...
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Thoughts For Beans: May 2010
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Thoughts on Java development, technology, interesting links etc. Tuesday, May 18, 2010. Kindle media converter Windows script. Check this post out for a Windows batch script to convert images into PDFs optimized for the Amazon Kindle e-reader. Posted by Pedro Burglin. Monday, May 10, 2010. Quest to find the best Linux for slow computers, Fedora 12 LXDE upgrade to 13. I replaced Kubuntu Netbook Remix. KNR) on my netbook with the LXDE spin of Fedora 12. Posted by Pedro Burglin. Wednesday, May 5, 2010.
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Thoughts For Beans: Server resource utilization monitoring
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Thoughts on Java development, technology, interesting links etc. Wednesday, September 5, 2012. Server resource utilization monitoring. Pretty much every Linux distribution has tools to help sys admins monitor the utilization of common server resources such as CPU, memory and storage. For advanced monitoring and reporting we may need to install 3rd-party tools (e.g. Nagios. But sometimes we just want a simple way to get warnings when critical server resources may be close to overload. 0,10,20,30,40,50 * *...
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Thoughts For Beans: Java magic with AspectJ
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Thoughts on Java development, technology, interesting links etc. Thursday, February 4, 2010. Java magic with AspectJ. Recently I had to work on a project whose a big chunk of the code was implemented by another team. And we were not supposed to change that code. But we were still somehow supposed to change the exception handling and logging for a certain kinds of Java classes on both that. Codebase and our own custom code. Custom exception handling mechanism for certain exception types. You do not have t...
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Thoughts For Beans: My Amazon Favorite Buys
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Thoughts on Java development, technology, interesting links etc. Sunday, August 19, 2012. My Amazon Favorite Buys. My Amazon Favorite Buys. Or check this list out and you may find something interesting. Great case for your small USB drive and USB cable. Small but large capacity USB drive, fast transfers and no separate power chord, excellent for backups. Note: they released a new version available here. Here's a relatively inexpensive item (compared to this one. Tiny wireless N adapter. Great radio for t...
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Thoughts For Beans: March 2010
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Thoughts on Java development, technology, interesting links etc. Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Found a very good overview on "How to Diagnose a Performance Problem in a J2EE System" written by John Bley: http:/ weblogic.sys-con.com/node/43024. Even though this article was written in 2003 somehow it is still pretty up to date. Guess the ways we build our systems are not changing so fast afterall. Posted by Pedro Burglin. Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Virtual Machines - managing virtual drives. Note: when you ex...