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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…

  • HTML space =  
  • Firebug
    1. Ctrl + Shift + C open web developer css
    2. Ctrl + Shift + L open command line
    3. Ctrl + Shift + K focus on search box
  • 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.
  • Screengrab is a firefox extension that does screen captures. Cool!!!
  • RAD7 requires that a target server be set for all projects.
  • The easiest way to search for a jar file by package name is…
    1. 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
    2. if the jar is open source, enable javacious & google the package name.

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