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Learnings

Posted by Jessica Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:11:00 GMT

I have a corporate job now—Java Development. It is all good. (^_^)

Having this corporate job means developing on Windows machine(s), which means for me brushing up on DOS commands.

attrib: change file permissions
path: print your path variable
services.msc: open the services console
netstat: lists ports in use

I don’t think there is a need for this command in NT, XP or Vista, but I used to use it all of the time.

doskey: allows you use commands previously entered

Additionally, I now need to start using dos2unix & unix2dos.

Other things that I have learned recently:

Shift + Alt + B in InkScape—> traces bitmap (i.e. gets path/shape of some existing bitmap object)
I’m turning my dev box into a web server and am working on putting a stack together. Although I would love to try something cool and new like Nginx, I think I would be better off sticking with what I know (i.e. Apache). More about my first webserver later.
I’ve started a document about the Freelance Web Development Process with questions for the client that I found on the web, as well as links to design resources.
To find firefox shortcuts… enter the following line in the browser address bar: chrome://browser/locale/help/shortcuts.xhtml
Convert m4a to mp3 with these two lines…

faad foobar.m4a 
#converts m4a to wav

lame foobar.wav foobar.mp3  
#converts wav to mp3

More, more, more…

Cygwin & the Find command: In order to use the find command in cygwin, you must make sure that c:cygwin\bin; is before SystemRoot\system32

To deal with the firefox can’t center tables issue… add extra empty columns & have colspan across those columns

Jsp files are converted into servlets that are then compiled into .class files; I am guessing that other frameworks work in a similar fashion.

To my future selves, please remember that if you are getting a 500 error on a typo blog, make sure to check the file permissions for the log files at least thrice; they must be set to 755.

if the jar is a websphere or homegrown jar, navigate in cygwin to a sufficiently small directory where you think the jar might be and execute the following command: find . -name \. | xargs grep this.is.your.package
if the jar is open source, enable javacious & google the package name.

Posted by Jessica Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:51:00 GMT

You can’t really crop in Inkscape. :-( But you can change the size of a svg drawing to get some perspective on how large or small the drawing will be after it is exported.
Ctrl + Alt + A opens align window in Inkscape.
To create Stylish Text with GIMP create a new layer, select a portion of the text to make shiny from original layer, copy and paste selection into new layer and change the color of the pasted portion.
This is how good iterative web design goes.
Y Combinator is now accepting applications for summer 2007 funding. Aahhh, if only I were confident and had a partner.
There are a number of sites that support OpenID. What prevents someone from claiming your site as their own (other than it being against OpenID’s policy)?
On the Rails deployment learning front, I discovered that ‘require_dependency…’ lines go in environment.rb and not in the controllers themselves (at least for how my hosting company has things set up).