In the past I have mostly used Windows as my main operating system. Some times I have used Ubuntu, especially as file server with ZFS port of ubuntu. I had tried it on my work laptop but it was very unstable mainly due to 3D Nvidia drivers used for composite desktop effects. Later I have used
Clone a Postgresql Database
May be there are more efficient ways of doing this, but I could only found following procedure: 1) Create a new DB createdb -U db_user new_db_name 2) Dump data from original DB pg_dump -U db_user -Fc original_db_name > dump_file_name 3) Restore to new db pg_restore -U db_user -d new_db_name dump_file_name
Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_INCONSISTENT_CERTIFICATES]
This error occurs when you try to reinstall an android application that is signed with a different key than already installed application. This may occur if you are a developer and installed the signed version of the application to your device (from Google Play Store) and you want to install a debug version of the
My First Published Android Application:Kids Photo Album
Kids Album is a photo album application. Main focus of the application is taking periodic photos of your kids and displaying them in a timeline view. Main Features: Create your kids profiles Customizable reminder to remind you at which period you would like to take photos Daily,weekly,yearly photos Display photos in timeline Add old photos
How to Speed Up Android Emulator for Debugging and Testing
I usually prefer to use my real phone for debugging and testing my application. But I want to see it in other device configurations, especially the user interface. Even you build the user interface with a visual editor you need to see it runtime to fully visualize everything. Android emulator is very slow because it
Using ActionBarSherlock with IntelliJ IDEA
“Usage” section of ActionBarSherlock only give you how to configure it with Eclipse. It is a little bit different for IntelliJ IDEA. Download ActionBarSherlock zip file and extract it next to your application module which will make use of ActionBarSherlock. Select File->Import Module from IntelliJ IDEASelect library folder under ActionBarSherlock folder and import it as
Enterprise Software Licensing Considerations
If you will purchase an enterprise software like database, application server you have to consider several factors other than functionality of the software. With the virtualization and multicore servers you have to carefully consider combination of Vendor-Software-CPU Architecture-CPU Core Number-Virtualization Solution. Virtualization:Not all vendors welcome virtualized environments. Virtualization has two consequences. The first one is
3 Months Since My Complete Switch to Ubuntu
It has been 3 months since I have completely switched to ubuntu on my work laptop. Although I have managed to solve most of the problems that I have encountered there are still several critical bugs. Unfortunately Nvidia driver in Ubuntu is not stable enough. Compiz is crashing several times in a week leaving desktop
Rest vs SOAP
Are there any analogy between SOAP vs Rest based web services and Entity Beans vs hibernate? I big telecom company is investing heavily on SOAP based web services as they guided by Oracle. I still could not identify any case where they are using WS-security, WS-transaction or similar features that are not exist in rest based
Ubuntu 11.10 and Brightness Problem
On some labtops (for example some of sony F series labtops) brightness levels may not work after installation. Keyboard shortcut works and indicator shows brightness is increased or decreased but brightness of the monitor does not change. In my case solution was adding highlighted line below to /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (depending on your system you may add