Ubuntu 11.10 does already a good job at starting faster, but if you've read one of my previous posts on Ubuntu startup time [1] then you know that there is always something to be tweaked for better or for worse. Part of the process is to defer services that are not needed immediately (i.e. printing) … Continue reading The "exe" process on slow Ubuntu bootchart
Author: George Georgovassilis
Adding foreign language dictionaries to Eclipse text editors and mylyn
This article [1] says it all, but here again for greek and linux: sudo apt-get install aspell aspell-el gawk aspell dump master el | awk -F/ '{print $1}' > dictionary_el.txt And then in Eclipse : Window -> Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text Editors ->Spelling Add dictionary_el.txt as a User Defined Dictionary Update 28.12.2011 … Continue reading Adding foreign language dictionaries to Eclipse text editors and mylyn
NPE when starting Google Dev Mode
After setting up a new Eclipse instance, checking out my current GWT project it's time for a first test, so I fire up the DevMode and: NullPointerException at SwingUI(42) That particular class is part of the GWT DevMode and tries to load an image from the class path by requesting it from SwingUI's class loader … Continue reading NPE when starting Google Dev Mode
Cache collision and ehcache spring annotations module
If you are looking for a way to implement declarative caching with Spring, there is no way around Ehcache Spring Annotations [1]. This superimposes a transparent aspect on methods of any proxied bean, taking the method arguments as a key. Little known but easy to stumble upon [2] is an implementation (design?) quirk which expects … Continue reading Cache collision and ehcache spring annotations module
New open source project: Product Catalogue Engine
Together with some colleagues from Technopolis we recently started PCE, an open source project for managing products and business rules. Why PCE? The need for a framework like PCE stems from the recurring task of having to manage, persist, retrieve and display products (or for that matter entities that can be viewed as products) of … Continue reading New open source project: Product Catalogue Engine

