Java

I'm not satisfied with existing praytimes applications in Android. Nothing matches with Indonesian standard. Actually there is one which matches with Indonesian standard. But sadly, it highly depends on internet connection since it's based on remote HTML javascript. Why doesn't the creator use the java version then?

Tired waiting Eclipse plugins to install their artifacts from internet (remote update site) every time you install fresh Eclipse? I was too. I wish all plugins had zipped version so that I don't have to connect to internet. I wish, there were a cache proxy server to cache plugins' artifacts. Sadly, they're just wishes :(

Finally, after googling around about hours I found that, it's better to use Eclipse feature named "dropins" to install any plugins offline. On this tutorial, I'll use Ubuntu. For Windows users, please adapt :D

I've been searching a way to write testing code for OSGi environment. There are Spring DM and Pax Exam that I found recently. Since Pax Exam supports JUnit 4, I prefer this one. Pax Exam works by create unique OSGi environment for each @Test method and make the test class as one of the OSGi bundle.

As a Java coder (and also some other languages) who envies Ruby concise features, I think Scala language is worth to try. I even eager to try this new language after Twitter popularize its use.

Scala bytecodes + Scala libraries = Java bytecodes

To be precise, the title should be: How to install Alfresco 3 Community Edition in Kubuntu 9.10 64-bit with Java 6 and Tomcat 6

Because that the environment which prove the Alfresco to run smoothly. So this are the steps:

If you think that you are a master in socket programming, I believe you know that:

Maven is my new development tool in Java world. I used to use Ant. But the build.xml and the jar management often make me crazy. Why bothers to bring along your jars in the project as you move into another PC. Or, why bothers to have duplicated jar in you PC as you get more projects? Why don't share them among the projects? So, I try maven 2.