Sharing keyboard and mouse on multiple computers
If you have more than one laptop/computer on your desktop, you may find yourself jumping from a keyboard to another to make use of them. In this article I explain how I configured my laptops to share...
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Attaching sources to android.jar in Eclipse
If you are working with the Android Development Toolkit (ADT) for Eclipse you may have noticed that the sources for android.jar are missing. The Android SDK comes without the sources, and even if you...
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GIT autocompletion and enhanced bash prompt
There are a couple of cool features in GIT that may not be well known by everyone, depending on which platform you are using. For example on Linux it is quite common to have the bash completion...
View ArticleHow to create a statically linked version of git binaries
Creating a statically linked version of a unix software saves you in all the circumstances where you can’t install the software as root, when you don’t have development tools on the target machine,...
View ArticleChecking configuration files inside jars
Are you habit to have some configuration files packaged inside the jar of your application? If so, you can still have a look at those configuration files in the running environment using the unzip Unix...
View ArticleSSH Bash Completion
Today I was having a look on how the git-completition is implemented. If you have not enabled the completition for git, I think you should really read my article on how to do it. So I found this two...
View ArticleUsing VMWare to run Windows in a Sandbox
Being a Unix user (Linux/OSX) I need sometime to run some Windows utility in a Virtual Machine. But I don’t want to break the virtual machine, installing and uninstalling things, or accidentally, or by...
View ArticleSelf executing jar files
I personally always felt bad about the fact that we have to provide a shell script which runs the executable jar file. It would be nice if we could provide a self contained executable in a single file,...
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Ssh “Write failed: Broken pipe”
I started to get this error “Write failed: Broken pipe” when I was leaving the terminal alone. Since plumbers are still expensive, despite the crisis, I decided to fix the pipe by myself. Very easy,...
View ArticleIgnoring versioned files with GIT
Suppose you work in a team. You download the project sources and you need to change some configurations according to your working environment, like the tcp port on which to run the webserver or the...
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