Upgrade From WordPress 2.8.6 to 3.0.1

Finally I got a chance to upgrade my blog from version 2.8.6 to 3.0.1 using SimpelScripts. Unexpectedly this was the smoothest upgrade I had.

I used SimpleScript to do the upgrade but few common tips to follow before you actually upgrade any WordPress version: Read the rest of this entry »

Linux Copying Bulk of Files Using Shell

Continuing on the related post

http://knowledgeexplosion.info/2008/07/solved-binrm-argument-list-too-long/

if you want to copy the files, you have to use different syntax. In my case I wanted to copy bulk of mp3 files:

find /share/media/mp3/ -type f -name "*.mp3" -print0 | xargs -0 -r
-I file cp -v -p file --target-directory=/bakup/iscsi/mp3

Solved: Working Eclipse Short Cuts (Function Keys) in Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)

Man I had crazy time with getting eclipse function keys working in Snow Leopard. That was a kind of nightmare. Specially I’m used to eclipse short cuts like F5, F6, F8. Here is the trick -

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Basic Shell Scripting Syntax Unix…Essentials

Just wanted to post very basic shell scripting essentials:

Basic Shell Scripting Concepts:

Arithmetic Evaluation (op refers to Operation):

let answer=var1 OP var2; echo $answer;

echo `expr var1 OP var2`

For … loop:

for file in x

do

    {body}

done

[x can be numbers, letters, paths etc]

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Finally Trying To Get Back On Track… :)

Just feels that it’s been longgg….. Trying to get back to writing some geeky stuff again

Displaying Tag information for the Subversive Client in Elipse

I normally like to see Author, Last modified date information for the projects synchronized with the subversion. Here is the trick to enable this tags for Subversive SVN client in eclipse.

Eclipse –> Properties –> Team –> SVN –> Label Decorations –> Text Decorations –> File –> [Select the necessary options]

Adding NTFS Write support on Mac OS X

I’ve western digital external usb hard drive. Unfortunately Mac OS X doesn’t support writing to NTFS formatted partition due to some legal issues; Although I was surprised by that. But luckily there are opernsource tools available which can be used (at your own risk ) to enable NTFS read-write support. By default it supports writing to FAT/FAT32 partition.

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Google Adds Real Time Results to Search

Just found out that Google has enabled real time search results.

See the attached image:

Google Real Time Search Results Example

Turning off irritating system beep

Turning off that irritating system beep:

Somehow I hate that default system beep on different operating systems, here are quick commands to turn that off

Windows:

net stop beep (in command line)

Linux, Mac OS X:

xset b off (terminal)

Resolved: javac: invalid target release: 1.6

javac: invalid target release: 1.6 :
Recently I ran into this while compiling some stuff through Maven. My development environment is Mac OS X(10.5), Eclipse (3.5), Maven (2.0.9), Java (1.6)
I tried some suggestions through Google but they didn’t help me. Finally resolved the isse. Follow this steps:

• Check if JAVA_HOME is set
• Check if PATH is set & it’s pointing to same Java version
• Now another important thing – Run mvn –version, check if the Java version matches.

(Mac Users)If do this:
Check your CurrentJDK path defined under "/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK".
That is most likely the culprit. Maven script uses this symlink value.

You are hopefully done