YarcRamble

I don’t know why, but my ubuntu 9.04 64 bit comes with a sub-optimal firefox multimedia setup. As previously discussed, the BBC world service doesn’t work out of the box, the australian open videos don’t work with the Totem/VLC (or whatever it is) plug-in, even after waiting for codec downloads. It’s just not particularly good.

But, [...]

Citrix hasn’t done a very convincing job w.r.t. making it easy to login via citrix from an ubuntu 64 bit host. Here are the essential steps;

* Download XenApp >Linux Clients from http://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/details.asp?downloadId=3323&productId=186&c1=ost1349860#top* Install ia32-libs; sudo apt-get install ia32-libs* run sudo ./setupwfc* import certificates; sudo cp /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/* ./ (thanks to http://techxplorer.com/2008/11/07/installing-the-citrix-presentation-server-client-on-ubuntu/)* try to login via [...]

find ./ -name project.properties -exec sed -i ’s/mvn.bat/mvn.bat2/’ {} \;

To remove an application that uses a port you want freed;

Linux/Ubuntu:

netstat -nlp | grep
kill -9

Cygwin

Ditto, but with -aop flags.

I go crazy because of wrong CR/LF handling, particularly when making a bourne shell script to be executed in cygwin and created in ntemacs. This solved that particular problem for me;

(setq file-name-buffer-file-type-alist ‘((“\.bat$” . nil) (“.*” . t)))

(set in the .emacs file)

Credits go to http://www.iist.unu.edu/newrh/III/3/1/docs/rsltc/windows/emacs_windows_faq.html#translation

I’m experiencing quite some cases where one does changes to grails code and where you have to do magic to get the changes to kick in. That might entail restarting the server or as I experienced today, deleting .mfo directories;

me@host ~/.grails/1.0.4/projects$ rm -rf *

This has so far only been necessary on windows/cygwin and not [...]

Attaching a debugger in NB:

$ grails-debug run-app

It doesn’t work as far as I can see however (NB 6.5). You may attach and set breakpoints, but it never breaks. Not with a standalone grails-debug, nor by letting NB start the debug server. Disappointing.

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How much can one do without restarting the server?

* it seems that [...]

I’m going through the major Seam selling points (from Farley’s Practical JBoss Seam Projects book):

- Simplification; Dispense with wrappers to use sessions/entities directly as backing beans. The @Name tag. – Extensions; – – Stateless, business and conversation managed bean scope. – – Conversations as transaction scope. Layer between request and session – multiple requests [...]

vim has a simple setting that fixes CR/LF issues;

:set ff=unix