Wednesday, January 26, 2011

my Adium Skype problem

When I try to let Adium connect to my Skype account, it says this after a while:
skype (Skype): Error
Could not connect to Skype process.
Skype not running?
I searched the web for this text, and I found the solution on adiumxtras.com.
Within Skype under Account -> Manage API Clients, I have to check,  that Adium is "Allowed to use Skype". That was certainly checked before, and my combination of Adium and Skype was rather useful and in use for a couple of weeks, but I guess, my attempted upgrade to Skype-5 changed that. I am curious, whether Adium also works with Skype-5. (But I still don't like the Skype-5's huge profile icons.)

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

.properties - Java's Property Resource Bundles

.properties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • For Western Europeans it's quite comfortable to be able to edit .properties files in ISO-8859-1 aka Latin-1.
  • The 1st German .properties file, that I came across, was actually written using '\u00HH' for the German umlauts, with HH being the hexadecimal digits of the Latin-1 encoding of the character.
    I looked up the Wikipedia article on Unicode, and I learned that this is a perfectly legal encoding of the Latin-1 character set, i.e. the 1st 256 characters of Latin-1 and Unicode (resp. its "BMP") are the same.
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

how to burst a PDF document into single pages (etc.)

This command line shows, how to get the output files named your way:

$ pdftk … burst output 'page.%02d.pdf'

Split Select Pages from Multiple PDFs into a New Document:

$ pdftk A=one.pdf B=two.pdf cat A1-7 B1-5 A8 output combined.pdf


Select a single page into a new document:

$ pdftk A=one.pdf cat A130 output one.p130.pdf


Please find more information (like examples, man page, …) on pdftk here!

Monday, January 3, 2011

.DS_Store - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

.DS_Store - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


From www.greci.cc:
By default, MacOS X will create a .DS_Store file in every folder it accesses, while this is ok in OS X it may be annoying for network shares. To prevent the creation of .DS_Store files on network volumes execute this from a Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

Sunday, January 2, 2011

XSLT - O'Reilly Media

XSLT, Second Edition - O'Reilly Media
From this text book I got to Saxon9.

The SAXON XSLT and XQuery Processor

The SAXON XSLT and XQuery Processor

Downloaded Saxon-HE from the above URL on my Linux box, decided to go for the Java variant, installed saxonhe.jar and "the resources" into /usr/local/saxon-resources9-3.

I wasn't able to browse the documentation below saxon-resources9-3/doc with Chrome-10, so I use Firefox-3.6 for that.
But I also read the documentation here.

This is from "Getting started with Saxon on the Java platform", adapted for my Unix-like platform:
$ java -cp /usr/local/saxon-resources9-3/saxon9he.jar net.sf.saxon.Query -t '-qs:current-date()'
Well, no error messages. I like that. Looks like I got all preconditions fulfilled.
More command lines tries from there:


$ cd /usr/local/saxon-resources9-3

$ java -cp /usr/local/saxon-resources9-3/saxon9he.jar net.sf.saxon.Transform -t -s:samples/data/books.xml -xsl:samples/styles/books.xsl -o:$HOME/temp.html

$ java -cp /usr/local/saxon-resources9-3/saxon9he.jar net.sf.saxon.Query -t -s:samples/data/books.xml -q:samples/query/books-to-html.xq > $HOME/temp.html

      


(to be continued)

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