Googled for this phenomenon, and it looks quite well-discussed already.
Month: December 2009
listening to Jorge Degas’s and Andreas Weiser’s Heimat
listening to Franz Schubert’s D 911
… “Winterreise. Ein Cyclus von Liedern von Wilhelm Müller. …”
OpenOffice 3.2 RC1 arrives
… and it brings PowerPoint slide shows with music …
editing files with VI and enforcing certain editor settings
You do know, that you can request VI (or VIM) to make using the tab key equivalent to going e.g. 4 positions to the right (“:set tabstop=4“). But what if your colleague opens that file and has a global setting like “:set tabstop=8“? As long as you don’t “globally” agree on this, it will at… Continue reading editing files with VI and enforcing certain editor settings
bash version 4 and associative arrays
The new builtin array variable BASH_ALIASES is a nice example for an associative array. If you do an ”echo ${BASH_ALIASES[@]}” you see all the values, if you do a “set | fgrep BASH_ALIASES” you see, to what the indexes map. Update: In December, when I got aware of the new feature, I thought, there is… Continue reading bash version 4 and associative arrays
my 1st steps in Java: extending a JasperReport sample program using Apache Commons CLI
iReports and JasperReports (and also JasperETL and much more) are open source software, that you can find on JasperForge.org. I intended to extend jasperreports-3.6.2/demo/samples/text/TextApp.java, so that it would take “-Dname=value” style options. There was a need to make TextApp.java a little more flexible, and that was quite easily to achieve making use of getProperty calls.… Continue reading my 1st steps in Java: extending a JasperReport sample program using Apache Commons CLI