I’ve just recently purchased a new laptop. I’ve installed Ubuntu and now I’m getting around to installing/tweaking the OS. Adding the missing multimedia “stuff”, installing Flash, Java, etc. My question is what do people think about Automatix? The guys behind UbuntuGuide don’t recommend using it, but I’ve seen a dozen or more sites that say [...]
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007
… at the Spring Dallas User Group. Ryan Breidenbach is giving his No Fluff Just Stuff Maven talk “Harnessing the Power of Maven“
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007
I was tasked with providing my favorite bookstore’s owner with a list of Java-related books he should always have in stock. The list I’m giving him is of books I put in the “must have” and/or “must read” category. My list is shorter then I thought it would be. Effective Java – I put this [...]
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What, “You don’t have IntelliJ money lying around to upgrade your IntelliJ?” The last couple days we’ve been using the new term “IntelliJ money” when we’re talking about spending a big chunk of change on something. So it was especially funny when our resident IntelliJ guy made the comment that he couldn’t believe there was [...]
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Tomorrow evening, Wednesday, 4/11, Dr. Venkat Subramaniam from Agile Developer will be presenting a Groovy talk for the Dallas Java User Group (JavaMUG). Venkat is a regular speaker at conferences around the world. You might have seen him speak at a Dallas stop of the No Fluff Just Stuff symposium. Venkat has spoken at JavaMUG [...]
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
The Spring Dallas UG meets tonight at 7pm at Nerdbooks. Tonight’s meeting will be great. Venkat Subramaniam is flying up to give his “Spring into Unit Testing” talk. If are in the Metroplex and want to learn about Spring and Unit Testing please make tonight’s meeting.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Today I attended the JBoss ON the Road stop in Dallas, TX. I have to say it was a great seminar. It was well organizied, the presentations were better then good, and no time was wasted (we installed JBoss ON during lunch). The schedule looked like it was geared to Application Server admins, but the [...]
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Thursday, February 15, 2007
UPDATE: My solution was simple. erik@lappy $> sudo apt-get remove vim-tiny erik@lappy $> sudo apt-get install vim Jeez! To save a few KBs on their install CD the Ubuntu people broke vim in Ubuntu Edgy. Even worse, all I’ve found as solutions to the problem, is people telling me to run: apt-get install vim-full That [...]
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
I found a gem yesterday via java.blogs that is a cross between how to start learning Ruby and how Ruby and Java differ in their Class/Object/method creation. Anyhow, read “Ruby Class Tutorial” if you have any interest in learning Ruby. I’ve added Juixe TechKnow to my blogroll and will be anxious to read his furture [...]
Today’s DBR is for those people that want to learn Java, or need to brush up on their skills. Sang Shin is offering-up another of his amazing, online courses. This time around is his Intro to Java course. The class is free, but you’ll feel like you should be writing Sang a check when you’re [...]
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