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A great article on feature detection in browsers with JavaScript.→ Continue reading “Feature Detection in Browser Scripting with JavaScript”

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:

• Go to System Preferences/Security & Privacy
• Click on the checkbox next to “Require password … after sleep or screen save begins”
• Select “immediately” in the dropdown within the aforementioned selection.

→ Continue reading “A Quick and Easy Way to Lock Your Screen Under Mac OSX”

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”

To specify the proxy information for svn edit the servers file in the .subversion directory under Linux, or the Subversion directory under the user’s directory in Windows.

Add the following under the [global] section:

http-proxy-host = someurl.com
http-proxy-port = 80
http-proxy-username = uid
http-proxy-password = passwd
http-compression = no

→ Continue reading “Checking Out an SVN Repository Over HTTP or HTTPS”

Following is a quick howto for installing the NoMachine free version of NXServer:

. Make sure that you have a DNS entry for the hostname of your NX Server machine or an entry in the server’s /etc/hosts file that points to it’s IP.

. rpm -i nxclient-3.5.0-7.x86_64.rpm
. rpm -i nxnode-3.5.0-7.x86_64.rpm
. rpm -i nxserver-3.5.0-9.x86_64.rpm

. copy stock config file to server.cfg:
        . # cd /usr/NX/etc
        . # cp server.cfg server.cfg_oem
        . # cp server-redhat.cfg.sample server.cfg

. edit config files:→ Continue reading “How To Install NoMachine’s NX Server and NX Client”

I am setting up a vm running CentOS 6.2 and want to be able to connect to it via NXClient.

After doing the basic install and getting the key from the server I got the following error when trying to login on the client side:

Server configuration error. Cannot log in.  Please contact your system administrator

Looking at /var/log/messages on the server revealed the following (hostName is the name of the host for the machine, changed from the actual → Continue reading “Solution for ‘Server configuration error. Cannot log in. Please contact your system administrator’ for NXServer/NXClient Session”