process managers

YAPM is a nice Process manager. you can see its screenshots from

http://yaprocmon.sourceforge.net/features.html


another PM is below. it shows processes in a tree.
http://processhacker.sourceforge.net/

Configuring proxy settings for Java

You can tell java to use your proxy internet explorer proxy setting by following the steps below.

"Start the Java Plug-in Control Panel by following these instructions:

1. Click the Start menu
2. Select Settings
3. Select Control Panel
4. Double click the Java icon.
5. Click on the Network Settings button.
6. Select the Use Browser Settings checkbox.
7. Click the OK button to save your changes.
8. Close all browser windows. Restart the browser and try to load the applet.
9. If the applet still does not load and you see the same connection error, try to configure your web browser's proxy settings."

source:http://www.java.com/en/download/help/5000020600.xml

java libraries

http://proguard.sourceforge.net/
ProGuard is a free Java class file shrinker, optimizer, obfuscator, and preverifier. It detects and removes unused classes, fields, methods, and attributes. It optimizes bytecode and removes unused instructions. It renames the remaining classes, fields, and methods using short meaningless names. Finally, it preverifies the processed code for Java 6 or for Java Micro Edition.

http://code.google.com/p/pulpcore/
http://www.interactivepulp.com/pulpcore/
PulpCore is an easy-to-use API designed to create modern-looking 2D web games with a positive user experience.

http://processing.org/
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain.

https://scenegraph.dev.java.net/
Welcome to the Scene Graph project, which provides "scene graph" functionality at the Java level, as well as providing one of the important runtime elements that the JavaFX Script language depends upon from the underlying platform.

http://www.13thmonkey.org/~boris/jgame/

http://slick.cokeandcode.com/


http://www.jmonkeyengine.com

Selenium web user interface tester

"Many, perhaps most, software applications today are written as web-based applications to be run in an Internet browser. The effectiveness of testing these applications varies widely among companies and organizations. In an era of continuously improving software processes, such as eXtreme programming (XP) and Agile, it can be argued that disciplined testing and quality assurance practices are still underdeveloped in many organizations. Software testing is often conducted manually.... "

http://seleniumhq.org/

Seeing the world from different perspectives

"When the only tool, you own is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail".

Abraham Harold Maslow
American psychologist
1908 - 1970

Java Decompiler

You sometimes do not have to sourcecode of an application which you want to analyse in that worst case story you can use java decompiler to analyse a code which is already compiled.

http://java.decompiler.free.fr/

Analysing a legacy source code

you can use following commands in cygwin:

find . -type f -name *.java
cat javafilelist.txt |xargs grep hibernate |cut -d":" -f1 | uniq | grep -v router | wc

Your development environment on windows with ubuntu

You can download ubuntu server image from http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/
and download VM Plyer (you donot need VM server) http://www.vmware.com/download/player/download.html

start console setup to change the keyboard layout by using
sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup command

add a new user
sudo adduser

add the user to the sudoers file.
ALL=(ALL) ALL

remove system beeps
sudo rmmod pcspkr

Extracting text with sed

Download stock ticker from stockcharts.com

wget http://stockcharts.com/charts/catalog/Aa.html

Extract the ticker with the following command.

sed -n 's/.*A HREF=".*c=\([^"]*\),p".*/\1/p' Aa.html > Aa.txt