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(Re)Start me up!
This post was originally published as part of the Java Advent series. There are cases where you would like to start a Java process identical to the current one (or at least using the the same JVM with tweaked parameters). Some concrete cases where this would be useful: Auto-tuning the maximum memory parameters (ie. you…
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Upgrading from MySQL to MariaDB on Ubuntu
So you decided that Oracle doesn’t know its left foot from the back of his neck when it comes to open source (how’s that for a mixed metaphor), but you are not ready just yet to migrate over to PostgreSQL? Consider MariaDB. Coming from Monty Widenius, the original author of MySQL, it aims to be…
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Cluj-Napoca (Romania) wins the title of European Youth Capital 2015
We interrupt our regular (lack of) posting to bring you this news: Cluj-Napoca is European Youth Capital 2015. Congratulation to everyone involved!
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Writing beautiful code – not just for the aesthetic value
This article was originally published in the 6th edition of TodaySoftMag in Romanian and on the Transylvania JUG blog in English. Reprinted here with the permission of the author / magazine. Most mainstream programming languages contain a large set of features and diverse standard libraries. Because of this it becomes important to know not only…
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A (mostly) cross-platform clickable map of Romanian counties
TL;DR – I’ve created a map of Romania’s counties (judete) using Javascript which can be used as an alternative for drop-down boxes during form input. It works great with FF and Chrome :-). See it in action and browse the source code. The map is based on the SVG drawings from Wikimedia Commons postprocessed in…
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Every end is a new beginning
TL;DR: I’m shutting down the twitfeeder project (it was on lifesupport for a long time) so I mirrored a technical article from the blog in the hope that it might be useful for somebody someday. Proxying URL fetch requests from the Google App Engine Hosting on the Google App Engine means giving up a lot…
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Helper for testing multi-threaded programs in Java
This post was originally published on the Transylvania JUG blog. Testing multi-threaded code is hard. The main problem is that you invoke your assertions either too soon (and they fail for no good reason) or too late (in which case the test runs for a long time, frustrating you). A possible solution is to declare…
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GeekMeet talk about Google App Engine
The GAE presentation I’ve given for the 12th edition of Cluj Geek Meet can be found here (created using reveal.js). You can find the source code here.
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Lightning talk at Cluj.PM
The slides from my Cluj.PM lightning talk: It was a stressful (but fun!) experience. Thanks to the organizers!
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Running pep8 and pylint programatically
Having tools like pep8 and pylint are great, especially given the huge amount of dynamism involved in Python – which results in many opportunities to shooting yourself in the foot. Sometimes however you want to invoke these tools in more specialized ways, for example only on the files which changed since the last commit. Here…