Archive for March, 2009

Netbeans – running programs the easy way

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

I have not been so angry at an IDE for a while, arrrrrrrghhh, rant follows.
How hard can it be to add JVM arguments to the run configuration of an application when running it from an IDE? Lets say I want to add -Dsuperboost=true or just ~/myconf/.myconf to the Java application?
Eclipse has a green button and [...]



It is possible to run Chrome under Linux

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Although very unstable and not that functional there exist Ubuntu packages (they work under Debian also) for Google Chrome (named chromium-browser though), see https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa



Where did my OOM go?

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Editor: We have a guest appearance from a CDO of a Fortune 500 company (actually not Fortune 500, but yes, a development manager for 200 devs). The twist? He has a compiler installed and apparently an editor too.
The other day I was playing around with a tool for memory analysis and wrote a small snippet [...]



When “Do no evil” becomes “Hear no evil”

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

After 4 cancellation requests, 2 forum requests, 1 billing support request and 2 months of waiting I’m posting this blog post to let out some steam and hopefully one day get my money back. A story of what happens when the same company offers the service and the payment but no support.
It all started out [...]



Caricature: JavaRebel winning the JOLT Productivity Award

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Thanks to Risto for making it. I’m the dude on the left :) Oh, and download JavaRebel!