[28-11-2012]
StackSocial – great promo
Camtasia 2 for Mac and Cross Over XI + few more apps can be found here. These two apps are worth the price themselves.
[27-11-2012]
Bad : modifier in $ ($). Bad : modifier in $ (/).
In tcsh, if you use “:” after environment variable name, letter after “:” is treated as modifier. Instead of setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH $LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/here/comes/your/new/path/for/libraries Bad : modifier in $ (/). setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH $LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$LIB_LOCATION Bad : modifier in $ ($). you have to use setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/here/comes/your/new/path/for/libraries setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:$LIB_LOCATION
[26-11-2012]
R in a Nutshell by Joseph Adler
Summary: Decent introduction to R I have bought R in a Nutshell some time ago (1-st edition) and I was pleased with it. It is very decent introduction to R. I am using R casually for doing server logs analysis, mostly. And from my point of view, a person who doesn’t speak R fluently, this […]
[16-11-2012]
Oracle JRockit by Marcus Hirt and Marcus Lagergren
Summary: Very comprehensive, but demanding This book has really impressed me. It goes into deep details of JVM and describes different approaches to various topics related to memory management, threads management, code analysis, subtle details within low level code that are the result of optimization. Authors really dive into details. What’s more important, this book […]
[16-11-2012]
make: *** No rule to make target
This error may be sometimes misleading. It doesn’t necessarily mean that your targets are specified incorrectly. Sometimes, all you need is a correct source file name.
[15-11-2012]
MuteMyMic 1.9.1 – enabling cough button
This post is related to new feature implemented in MMM 1.9.1 – cough button. This feature is experimental one, and can be activated by Ctrl + F5 combination. It will mute the mic as long as you keep the combination pressed. Unfortunately, this feature requires “Enable access for assistive devices” to be activated: In case […]
[14-11-2012]
MuteMyMicFree – it has finally arrived and is brought to you by AppStore
MuteMyMicFree is a reduced, affordable (totally free) version of MuteMyMic. You can find it here: MuteMyMicFree in AppStore. You can also read how it is different from MuteMyMic here: mutemymic.com. Even though it has reduced functionality it shares the same mascot that can be found here. Feel free to download the app, and happy muting!
[11-11-2012]
Humble Bundle for Android 4 has arrived!!
Here is the note from the Humble Bundle page: http://www.humblebundle.com “Crayon Physics Deluxe, Eufloria, Splice, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, and Waking Mars. If you choose to pay more than the average price, you will also get Machinarium!” I am sure that Sword & Sworcery EP and Machinarium themselves are worth buying the whole bundle!!
[09-11-2012]
Accelerated Mac OS X Core Dump Analysis Dmitry Vostokov
Summary: Worth the price This book is definitely worth the price. It is costly, but still, worth the price. If you have a team of people who are descent to work with GDB but are not familiar with it yet, simply buy it. If you are an individual – this book is very pricy to […]
[06-11-2012]
an error occurred uploading to the itunes store – Oracle’s Java 1.7 u10
If you are getting following message while submitting apps into App Store an error occurred uploading to the itunes store And you have recently installed Oracle’s Java 1.7 these are the steps that may help you cd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions sudo mv Current Current~ sudo ln -s /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents Current After this change, make sure you are running […]
[05-11-2012]
NetBeans 7.3 beta OS X 10.7 – Java 1.7 related issue
It looks like NetBeans 7.3 beta is not working correctly with Java 1.7_06 and Java 1.7_09. In order to get it working download early access version from here: http://jdk7.java.net/download.html – JDK 7u10
[31-10-2012]
Java EE 6 Pocket Guide by Arun Gupta
Summary: Must have This is simply a must have. I know you can always refer directly to J2EE specification, but from time to time, all you need is a short sneak peek. That’s what this book is designed for. To give you this kind of short references in most commonly used areas of J2EE development. […]
[30-10-2012]
ScreenFlow 4.0 is here
There is a new release of ScreenFlow 4.0. You can find it here. Few features: – outline works as it should, at last! – video filters – you don’t have to export movies to iMovie in order to apply some effects on the video – audio filters – the same as above – sound on […]
[28-10-2012]
Simple JNI – passing array from C to Java
Create these files: /* Simple.h */ #include “jni.h” JNIEXPORT jintArray JNICALL Java_Simple_getArray (JNIEnv *, jobject, jint); /* Simple.c */ #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include “Simple.h” #include “jni.h” JNIEXPORT jintArray JNICALL Java_Simple_getArray (JNIEnv *env, jobject obj, jint size) { int i; jintArray position=(jintArray)(*env)->NewIntArray(env,size); if(position==NULL) return NULL; jint *f = calloc(size, sizeof(jint)); for(i=0; i < size; i++) […]
[25-10-2012]
tcsh bash like tab completion
To get file completion within tcsh use Esc. However, hitting Esc will not show you the files available for completion. To get Tab functionality (as in bash), set following variable in ~/.cshrc set autolist
[24-10-2012]
Simple JNI – passing array from Java to C
Create these files: /* Simple.h */ #include “jni.h” JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_Simple_passArray (JNIEnv *, jobject, jintArray); /* Simple.c */ #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include “Simple.h” #include “jni.h” JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_Simple_passArray (JNIEnv *env, jobject obj, jintArray ptr) { int i; printf(“Hello from JNI\n”); jsize len = (*env)->GetArrayLength(env, ptr); jint *body = (*env)->GetIntArrayElements(env, ptr, 0); for […]
[19-10-2012]
MuteMyMic 1.9.1 – released
Update as fast as you can. It solves the bug that was accidentally released with version 1.9. This update is free – of course. You can get it here: MuteMyMic 1.9.1
[09-10-2012]
Intermediate Perl by Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy, and Tom Phoenix
Summary: Good read, but sometimes too complex I think this book is really a good read. If you like the style of Learning Perl you will like this book as well. The same, light, approach to quite complex topic. However, this book might be too much for people who use Perl primarily as a tool […]
[09-10-2012]
iPhone Location Aware Apps by Example by Zeeshan Chawdhary
Summary: Beginners guide to location This book is a simple introduction to location development. In my opinion, slightly outdated (it covers XCode 4.2 and iOS 5). It also covers topics like migration from XCode 3 to XCode 4 – I am not sure if anyone will be interested in that. If you prefer digging in […]
[03-10-2012]
Embedding Groovy in Java
0. Create some space where you can test everything mkdir ~/groovy_and_java cd ~/groovy_and_java 1. Download most recent version of Groovy curl “http://dist.groovy.codehaus.org/distributions \ /groovy-binary-2.0.4.zip” -o groovy-binary-2.0.4.zip unzip groovy-binary-2.0.4.zip 2. Create space for sample code mkdir SampleCode cd SampleCode 3. Create two files SimpleGroovyCall.java import groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader; import groovy.lang.GroovyObject; import java.io.File; public class SimpleGroovyCall { public static […]