Lately I needed to export an Azure DevOps wiki as one PDF. There is a plugin that claims, that it can do this and of course you can export each page in the browser and concat them with tools like pdftk. Unfortunately, the plugin is in a very early stage and I did not have any control over the Azure DevOps instance. The latter felt like loosing…
Hence, I searched for a “computer scientist”-solution. So I downloaded the repo and installed pandoc.
Long time no write… I had many ideas for blog posts, but no time to write them. Hopefully, this will change soon. Here just a small update… As you know (if you read my blog), I have a “special” way of storing and “backupping” my files. All my documents are stored in a folder named YYYY/ (e.g. 2021) and have the format YYYYMMDD-<some-name>.<some-ending>. I further categorize my files by using macOS tags.
Every year I prepare a folder tax-YYYY/, where I copy all the files with relevance to my tax declaration. But sometimes I am not completely sure whether all the files in there are in my main YYYY/ folders, too. This is, because I copy files from my e-mail (like invoices) and some files, which relate to year YYYY are from YYYY+1, e.g. the proof of social security. So, after finishing the tax declaration I double check, whether every file that belongs to a year made its way into the corresponding folder with a dedicated unix command (here exemplarily for 2019). For sure this can be used to check the completeness of backup folders, too. A recursive variant may even be used to search complete backups for missing duplicates/files. So here is the command.
ls 2019* | while read file; do; \ found=$(find ../2019 -name $file | wc -l); \ if [ $found -eq 0 ]; then; echo $file; fi; \ done
Be aware, that this does only search for a file with the same name. It does not check whether it is not the same file (e.g. due to file changes). This can be done by using a hashing algorithm
Exciting 🤓.
In March I wrote about a new project called DIME (Dynamic web application Integrated Modeling Environment), which enables to create full-fledged web applications via a family of GDSLs (Graphical Domain-Specific Languages), with an additional textual representation. It is the beginning of a development style, where technical experts and application experts (e.g., business experts) can work together on one artifact. The underlying idea of the approach is, that the different types of modeling languages (for data, control, and user interface) are interdependently connected and describe the application completely, so that they can be full code generated to a ready-to-use web application. Everything that cannot be captured adequately on the model level, can be integrated in a service-oriented fashion via so called native components.
At the end of that post I announced a DIME landing page, created with this very tool. Now a first version is online, which is responsive and shows already a few dynamic features, like internationalization (you can choose between english and german in the menu) and a comment form, where you can leave your first impressions. But please be kind, the Add Comment-process informs us about new comments and we can delete rude commments in the private area (all generated). The site is work in progress, we will update it with new features, more information, news on public events, and projects where DIME has been used. Further on, we will add a download section as soon as time has come for going public with DIME.
We already have some nice demo applications like a TODO-App as well as a “Reddit”-Clone, which will ship with the DIME installer. Just last week we held a DIME workshop on STRESS’16 co-located to ISoLA 2016 conference.
So please, take a look at the DIME landing page, leave a comment, and stay tuned for more to come.
Exciting, 😉.
In this post I’ll show how to use the ExecutorService of the java.concurrent package, in order to start as many inkscape shells as processors available on the current machine and to distribute a whole bunch of conversion tasks wisely on the cores. On my quad core I got a speedup of about 3.5, which is really near to 4.
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If you have installed ‘xmodmap’ you may add the following command in order to have reversed scrolling experience like in OS X Lion:
echo "pointer = 1 2 3 5 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12" >> ~/.Xmodmap
The next time you start ubuntu gnome desktop it will ask you, whether it should load the xmodmap (you should add the .Xmodmap file). There you go.
This post is an addition to the post Unit Test Your DB Schema and Named Queries. It shows how to use the TestNG Annotations in order to simulate a lightweight EJB container enabling you to test your persistence layer (DAO, entity classes and similar). If you are using JBoss 6 you may use the embedded EB container. EJB3Unit supports testing Enterprise Beans, too. But I couldn’t get the latter to run smoothly and I do not use the former, yet. So if you are still tied to the old Java EE 5 world you might benefit form this solution.
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svn diff compares repository URLs only. So, if you reintegrated a branch to the working copy of your trunk or synchronized the trunk to the working copy of your branch, you will have a problem. This little script helps you to compare two working copies.
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