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A few websites and articles by professional programmers about writing code and computer science:
If you are running both VMWare (in my case VMWare Fusion 5) and a VPN that uses the 192.168.203.0 subnet you will may need to update the ip range that is used for the vmnet.
In my case, vmnet8 was configured to use 192.168.203.0 and so was a VPN connection that I was using.
As a result, if I fired up VMWare first and then attempt to make a connection to the VPN, I could not route to any of → Continue reading “Changing the VMWare vmnet IP Range when it Conflicts with a VPN on Mac OS X”
Here is a very cool static analysis tool for Java code called FindBugs that comes from my alma mater.→ Continue reading “Very Handy Java Static Analysis Bug Finder”
Recently I have started working on some projects where the use of Maven has been mandated. However, since these projects are in the early stages it has got me doing some searches for alternative Java build systems.
I found a interesting article on the topic written by Jess Johnson entitled ‘Java Build Systems: A Sad State of Affairs’. From there I found some other links to Java build systems and some other articles written on the topic.
I’ll come → Continue reading “Exploring Java Build Systems”
I am starting some new projects and am going to integrate a complete set of JUnit 4 tests from the get-go.
In the process of doing so, I found a resource that provides a great introduction to Junit 4.→ Continue reading “A Great Introduction to Junit 4”
If you want a quick way to lock your screen on your Mac do the following:
You will be asked to authenticate to make the change
Now you will be able to immediately lock your machine by pressing Control-Shift-Eject.
I have just recently started working on a Mac again and am in the process of getting it set up to do some development.
First thing was to tweak my Terminal preferences and I found a really good article about Mac fonts for programming (Top 10 Programming Fonts). I agreed with the author of that post and went with Inconsolata.→ Continue reading “Very Cool Free Mac OSX Font for Terminal Windows and Programming”
Eclipse (at least Juno) will complain that there is “No grammar constraints (DTD or XML Schema) referenced in the document.”, even though there is no DTD for Ant build.xml files (see here for Ant faq about DTD for build.xml files).
To surpress the warning in Eclipse add
<!DOCTYPE project>
After the <?xml . . . XML declaration tag → Continue reading “How To Disable the DTD Warning for Ant build.xml Files in Eclipse”
If you want to get a 64-bit build of Firefox for Linux, go to the following URL and browse to the most recent version, download and install.
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/→ Continue reading “Where to get a 64-bit Build of Mozilla Firefox for Linux”