Sunday, July 3, 2011

jaspersoftstudio : JasperForge

jaspersoftstudio : JasperForge

From JasperForge.org/projects/jaspersoftstudio:
Jaspersoft Studio is a new, free, open source report designer for JasperReports. A full rewrite of iReport on top of the Eclipse platform.

movie2k.to – the replacement for kino.to

Watch movies online for free movie download at movie2k.to

apress.com: Beginning Relational Data Modeling

Beginning Relational Data Modeling



ISBN13: 978-1-59059-463-6

They don't let me register my paper book, so that I can order the companion e-book for just USD 10.

Learning UML 2.0 - O'Reilly Media

Learning UML 2.0 - O'Reilly Media

UML 2.0 Pocket Reference - O'Reilly Media

UML 2.0 Pocket Reference - O'Reilly Media

got it as paper and as e-book

O'Reilly Media book: UML 2.0 in a Nutshell

UML 2.0 in a Nutshell - O'Reilly Media

got it as user paper book,
still want it as e-book

Thursday, June 30, 2011

PostgreSQL: the function date_trunc is conceptually similar to the trunc function for numbers

PostgreSQL: Documentation: Manuals: PostgreSQL 9.0: Date/Time Functions and Operators

JasperReports: how to reduce the size of a Group band?

Change the Band height within the Group Header.

It maybe hard a little to find the Band height. You may want to Add Band for the Group Header first, otherwise that property (resp. set of properties) is simply not there.

Background:
I had a query with "GROUP BY country, current_month". I let each country Start on a new page. Each current_month had just one element, so I expected them to get displayed in a compact manner, but the default Band height of each group made them display with rather huge gaps.

Torvalds calls userspace filesystems "toys" - The H Open Source: News and Features

Torvalds calls userspace filesystems "toys" - The H Open Source: News and Features

The rise and fall and rise of HTML - The H Open Source: News and Features

The rise and fall and rise of HTML - The H Open Source: News and Features

emacs: how to omit OS X resource fork files in dired-omit-mode?

Extended the regexp in dired-omit-files.
EmacsWiki entry.

profile / CV maintenance at various sites

  • xing.com
  • LinkedIn.com
  • gulp.de
  • (xmlresume)

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

GoldenOrb offers open source variant of Google's Pregel - The H Open Source: News and Features

GoldenOrb offers open source variant of Google's Pregel - The H Open Source: News and Features

GitHub's Linguist open sourced - The H Open Source: News and Features

GitHub's Linguist open sourced - The H Open Source: News and Features

Yahoo! creates independent Hadoop company - The H Open Source: News and Features

Yahoo! creates independent Hadoop company - The H Open Source: News and Features

Facebook blocked KDE photo applications - The H Security: News and Features

Facebook blocked KDE photo applications - The H Security: News and Features

Cross platform IM client InstantBird goes 1.0 - The H Open Source: News and Features

Cross platform IM client InstantBird goes 1.0 - The H Open Source: News and Features

competition for Adium on OS X?
and for Pidgin of course

Attack of the computer mouse - The H Security: News and Features

Attack of the computer mouse - The H Security: News and Features

online in a public transport bus in Berlin with a router in my pocket

I am amazed! No USB device sticking into the computer …

4G-Systems XSBoxGO – UMTS WIFI router, battery driven

product page at 4G-Systems

My new "away from home office" Internet access equipment. Certainly a lot more lightweight than an AVM FRITZ!Box 7390 or 7270, but it may do its job.
The specific requirement was "battery driven". Outside (e.g. on a bus (yes!!!), in a customer's office, in a friend's living or sleeping room – wherever I feel tempted to do something over the Internet), I don't want to deal with a UMTS USB stick attached to the notebook on my lap, instead I want to have the device anywhere in my bag or a pocket of my clothes, helping me without attracting other people's attraction to a fancy or huge device.

It's so tiny, you can easily put it "somewhere" and forget, where you left it. For the time being I will keep it in my tiny iPod cloth pocket, so that it doesn't catch a lot of scratches. Of course, I won't necessarily use them together.

Update 2011-07-01
  • Wearing it in operating in a pocket is not a good idea, it needs fresh air.
  • Restarting through pressing a button does not always work, removing the battery always works.
Update 2011-08-04
I tried to connect to it via WIFI again, and the SSID did not appear.
I dug into it, and I found, that WIFI was disabled. After enabling it again, all was fine.
I have no idea, how WIFI got disabled. That makes no sense to me.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

HTML "accesskey" vs. web browsers vs. platforms

  • Firefox on Mac OS X: the ctrl key
  • Chrome and Chromium on Mac OS X: the ctrl key and the alt key together (and set the mouse-pointer into the right pane!)
  • Chrome and Chromium on Windows: the alt key

emacs: "output coding" - line endings

Output Coding - GNU Emacs Manual

I had an accounting file with DOS line endings, and I needed it with just 0xa (ASCII line feed).

I found this function for converting the line endings in GNU Emacs:

set-buffer-file-coding-system, used like this:

C-x RET f unix RET