http://cinq.com my code Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:37:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was reading these different articles on how to install Maven on Mac OSX and I had to create the /usr/local directory, check the md5sum, untar and then modify my profile. All this to realize that Maven is already installed on my Mac by default. It is version 2.2.0 and not ... http://cinq.com/2010/02/14/maven-on-mac-osx/ When you look at the synergy+ page it does say that it is beta and mostly stable in most cases so all the warnings are there to inform you that it may not work perfectly. I have no problem with them but I do with CentOS 5. When I did ... http://cinq.com/2010/02/11/synergy-not-ready-for-prime-time/ I read this blog post this morning and taught that it was giving good advices: Five tips for starting a programming career http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/programming-and-development/?p=2231&tag=nl.e055 The tip to work on more projects and getting involved with an existing project are ones I will put in practice in the coming days. I am expecting that it ... http://cinq.com/2010/02/09/new-career-as-a-programmer/ options { directory "/var/named"; forwarders {172.16.10.1; 172.16.10.2;}; forward only; }; I had to setup a forwarding DNS servers today and since I had never done it before I was looking for a quick way. I installed the bind rpm package that comes with RHEL5 and was puzzled since it did not create the /etc/named.conf. So I ... http://cinq.com/2010/02/04/forwarding-dns-server/ That was not an obvious one. Under KUbuntu I typically use the KPackageKit application to install and update applications.  It did not work well. I tried to install the sun-java-jdk package many times and every time it would list the dependencies and do the install but the "java -version" would ... http://cinq.com/2009/12/30/sun-java-in-kubuntu/ There is a new year coming very soon... Magical number to it so more motivation to create and learn, or so I hope. It is easy to have grand plan for the new year since it is a new start. Everyone loves a new start. I certainly hope to create more with ... http://cinq.com/2009/12/26/new-year/ I was reading some newsletter and they recommended some online courses so out of curiosity I looked at this one: http://www.javapassion.com/j2ee/ I decided to register and we will see if I can follow it all the way through. Certainly looks like the course material is quite exhaustive so I should certainly learn ... http://cinq.com/2009/09/16/online-j2ee-course/ Until today I was not even aware we were using this IP geolocation service in some of our systems. I guess that you need an outage to get to know what you have. We do queries to country.netop.org to quickly know which country an IP is from. I am not sure ... http://cinq.com/2009/09/06/when-netop-org-has-difficulties/ This is not the first time I do this and it is on the edge of embarrassing except this time I knew I had tools to get me out: lose the source code to a java application. I have this application that was done a year ago and I guess that ... http://cinq.com/2009/09/03/java-decompiler/ Saw this article from a twit and I am unsure how I can do all these: http://codemonkeyism.com/generation-java-programming-style/ Interesting and if I do any code with this I will post an other entry to let you know how it went. http://cinq.com/2009/08/18/new-programming-style/