Jan 18, 2009

Upgrading from Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn (7.04) to Hardy Heron (8.04)

Since I have procured my laptop I have been using Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn (7.04) on it and I was more than satisfied until its support period expired on Jan 2009; I was compelled to upgrade and I did not want to take the hassle of upgrading again in the lifetime of this laptop so I decided to upgrade to Hardy Heron (8.04 LTS) (via Gutsy Gibbon). This writeup is my experience on this upgrade procedure.

Tags:  ubuntu ,  flash ,  pidgin ,  sound ,  vga ,  openoffice3 ,  hardy

Sep 10, 2008

Why Python?

For long I have been wondering “Why Python?” - why is python gaining popularity? Why do many prefer python for all sorts of work? Myself being a Java fan (some of my friends say fan-atic) it makes it more interesting to me to understand the reason behind its uprising. I am a software engineer mainly working on enterprise systems with Java. One of my hobby is to write scripts for anything that I (might) have to repeat in near future.

Tags:  python

May 3, 2008

Setting up firewall in Ubuntu

Though I am not a server or network administrator I have always been interested in learning how to secure a network. From some initial reading I learned that firewall is the starting point and trust me when I say that with Ubuntu 8.04 Server (code-named ‘Hardy Heron’) its seriously easy to setup a firewall. This article of mine will attempt to show beginners like myself how easy it is. I am assuming that readers will have Hardy Heron installed before embarking on testing out the firewall.

Tags:  firewall ,  ubuntu ,  linux ,  ufw

Apr 18, 2008

Code generation made easy using patterns

Since starting developing some code generation plugins (toString() generator and Java Util Logger Generator) using/for the NetBeans 6.1Beta I have learnt a lot and the more I worked on it I kept asking myself how could I make it easier. Once both the plugins took rudimentary form I learnt and discovered that patterns could make this task whole lot easier for me. So I started re-implementing the Logger generator (if you are interested in getting the resources please check the logger blog) plugin.

Tags:  code generation ,  netbeans ,  java

Apr 15, 2008

NetBeans: Generating Java Util Logger

Java Util Logger has enabled us to ship application without having dependency on any external JARs or APIs for logging purpose. After starting to use it I felt the necessity of a Logger creation tool which will create and initialize a logger for me instead of me either writing it or Copy-Pasting it for every file or worse every class. Also using a tool will enable me to maintain a coherence of naming and initialization of loggers across a project.

Tags:  code generation ,  netbeans ,  java