I've been using Oracle SQL Developer for a few months, and something very annoying happened to me, the application was buggy... Add the following lines to the sqldeveloper.conf file (found in the sqldeveloper\bin sub-directory) AddVMOption -Duser.language=en AddVMOption -Duser. Read more...

When I started development, desktop applications were my only target and source of pain. I spent several hours, days, months making things work. When I moved to web-enterprise development, a lot of frameworks save me a lot of time, things like Hibernate, Seam, JMS, Guice. But when I tried to go back to desktop applications, things hadn't changed very much, I still needed to do a lot of work. Then I started emulating some of the best features of Enterprise frameworks for desktop application development. Read more...

Last weekend I decided to give ArchLinux a chance, I only read good articles about it and I thought it would be nice to get out of Slackware world. I will divide my experiences in a few sections: Installation This part was really strange for me, it supposed to be easier than Slackware ncurses wizards. It's not, it's even worse. I don't know if is just me, but I the default installation doesn't have anything, no media support, not extra-fs support, nothing. Read more...

Sadly I have to talk about this again, since Slackware 12.2 I've been having problems with my Nvidia GeForce 6400 card (I know it's old, shut up). And most of the times a little of investigation and configuration would be enough, but not this time. Problem description: User switch action freezes all the system and the only way to restore it is by restarting it.Affected OS: Ubuntu Linux 10.4, Slackware Linux 13. Read more...

Great talk about distributed concurrent version control systems and GIT.

I've been installing the latest Slackware stable release on my main machine these days and I have to say, it's great!!!. Most of the problems of Slackware 13 are now solved, it's pretty stable and so far without exceptions!!. But I found a problem not related to Slackware, there is a problem with the kernel series 2.6.33.x and Nvidia legacy drivers. In short, once the driver is installed, the 'logout' action freezes the system and the only way to restore it is restarting manually, tough. Read more...

Finally, after several modifications and security updates, we have a stable release of our beloved Slackware Linux. Slackware 13.1 has several improvements and changes, you can check it in the ANNOUNCEMENT or the RELEASE NOTES and also in CHANGES_AND_HINT.

I've been testing the new Ubuntu 10.4 distribution for a couple of weeks, just to see how much changed since last year. I have to say that is really good, nice, lightweight, and really easy to use. Is taking the MacOS approach to attract users and I think it will work. They are taking the right way for PC users, including very useful applications in a single-CD set. But I'm not a normal PC user, I'm a developer, a curious, stupid, bastard that wants to control everything in the system. Read more...