Oct 22, 2014

Profiling Virgo with JProfiler

The information below has been tested with JProfile 5 on Linux 64bit, and assumes that the JProfiler Agent is installed in folder /opt/jprofiler5. While this post refers to a rather old JProfiler version, I am sure the principles apply also to more recent JProfiler version.    The following...

Aug 30, 2014

Nov 23, 2013

Dependency Injection and Sisu

Dependency injection is certainly one of the most effective design patterns for writing clean, maintainable and testable code. For these reasons it's been very popular over the past few years and a number of libraries/frameworks have been created to provide support for dependency injection. The most...

May 30, 2013

Apr 27, 2013

Edit keyboard shortcuts in Nautilus 3.6

After upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04, I was a bit annoyed by a short-cut change: I have always used a lot BackSpace in Nautilus to go up one folder. Now, in Nautilus 3.6 this has been changed to ALT-UP. Luckily enough, even if there is no GUI for this, you can change Nautilus key bindings pretty easily....

Oct 31, 2012

Oct 2, 2012

Developing for Virgo server with Eclipse PDE

Last week I pushed to github an Eclipse plug-in released under the EPL license that allows using PDE plug-in projects with Virgo Tools. Source code, binaries and documentation are available here:   http://github.com/giamma/pde2virgo  The plug-in is pretty simple: it contributes a new builder...