The driver selected by default by Fedora 11 is not appropriate for Xerox Phaser 3117 - it will not print with it. However there is a very easy solution to the problem. Go to System -> Administr...

Most people have been in a situation requiring them to change one or more of the parameters passed to the JVM on top of which JBoss AS is running. For instance - you may need a bigger heap, bigger ...

When you have applications, whose configuration is as complex as that of Emacs it’s always a good idea to store that configuration under version control so you can easily share it between multiple ...

One of the most dreaded things that you can see while trying to run some application or trying to install an rpm package is a message saying that some required library is missing. Generally this i...

One of the things that I don’t like about the default Eclipse settings for Java development is that in the package explorer all Java files appear in the same manner(with the same icon). There is no...

I’m very fond of the ability to insert a new line below the line I’m currently at, and to position the cursor at the beginning of that new line, offered by most IDEs, such as IntelliJ IDEA and Ecli...

I’ve always been frustrated with the inability to write a switch on String in Java. However the enum type introduced in Java 5.0 somewhat diminishes the issue. Read this excellent article on the s...

I haven’t posted anything lately, but I just received my brand new Das Keyboard and now I simply can’t stop typing. Recently I’ve been going through some effective techniques to implement popular d...

Recently I switched to zsh, after being a bash user for almost 5 years. I was in love with everything in zsh from day one, except one thing – the default prompt. Although zsh ships with several pro...

Lately, I’ve started digging more and more into Rails, preparing for the start of a Rails powered project. Although there are some IDEs offering decent Rails support (namely RubyMine, NetBeans, Kom...