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Capturing your screen on Ubuntu - with sound 14 Aug 2013 | 02:50 pm
Today I have a short script which I cobbled together from Google searches to do screen captures / screen casts with Ubuntu (including audio in so that you can narrate what is going on): I found this ...
Tips for running SonarQube on large / legacy codebases 28 Jun 2013 | 05:49 pm
Crossposted from the Transylvania JUG website. SonarQube (previously Sonar) is a quality management platform aimed mainly at Java (although other programming languages are supported to a varying degr...
Nested fluent builders 23 Jun 2013 | 08:26 pm
Crossposted from the Transylvania JUG website. Builders have become commonplace in current Java code. They have the effect of transforming the following code: Into something like This has the advan...
Passing UTF-8 trough HTTP 30 May 2013 | 01:36 am
These days we should write every code as if it will be used by international people with a wide variety of personal information (just look at Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names for some headsc...
Connecting to the MtGox market data feed using Perl 29 May 2013 | 10:52 pm
For a recent project I needed some realistic market data for an electronic exchange. Seeing how MtGox provides free and open access to theirs (thank you!) I chose them. However none of the examples fl...
Converting datetime to UTC in python 8 Feb 2013 | 12:06 am
So you need to convert a python datetime object which has a timezone set ("aware" in the Python nomenclature) to an UTC one with no timezone set ("naive"), for example because NDB on GAE can't store a...
Recovering your RoTLD password for domains registered trough Gandi.NET 5 Feb 2013 | 09:08 pm
If you need to "recover" your RoTLD password when the .RO domain is registered trough Gandi.NET (I say "recover" because you didn't set it in the first place :-)) - do this: In the Gandi interface go...
Free software for Windows 4 Jan 2013 | 06:36 am
Inspired by this post I decided to list the software I use/recommend under Windows. Free/Libre Open Source Software: LibreOffice (for of OpenOffice) - a very capable office solution. Most people don...
What every programmer should know about X 31 Dec 2012 | 04:24 pm
Piggybacking on some memes floating around on the internet I would like to publish my list of "what every programmer should know". A couple of introductory words: in my opinion the two most important...
Ensuring the order of execution for tasks 22 Dec 2012 | 02:13 am
This post was originally published as part of the Java Advent series. If you like it, please spread the word by sharing, tweeting, FB, G+ and so on! Want to write for the Java Advent blog? We are look...
