Category: Techie
Invoking 'Spring Project Builder' on '/project' hangs
March 1st, 2010I've been using SpringSource Spring Tool Suite (STS) for a while now. It's pretty good. One of the problems with Eclipse is maintaining all the dependencies for web development and thankfully the chaps at SpringSource take care of all that for you.
I… more »
7-Zip's context menu doesn't work under Vista
February 22nd, 2010Under Vista 7-Zip's context menu extensions don't work, everything else about 7-Zip works as normal.
There seems to be something funny about the i368 version of 7-Zip when running under Windows Vista.
To make the context menus work:
Uninstall… more »
Buringing ISOs with ULeadBurn.Now
February 15th, 2010I am writing this article because it seems to take me ages to find out where the magic switches are in the wizard to let you select "burn iso". ULeadBurn.Now's documentation is appalling, so I'm writing this to keep it in my mind so I don't have to make… more »
Simple way of sharing files on a home network
February 8th, 2010There are several ways of sharing files between 2 (or more) PCs. The simplest is some sort of removable media such as a memory stick or DVD. You might run into problems if your file is bigger than the size of the memory stick. The trouble with copying fi… more »
Java's File.renameTo fails on Windows
February 2nd, 2010I had a problem with renaming a properties file. Java's File.renameTo() always failed and returned false. There was no explanation as to why it failed, so it left me stuck with no idea what to do.
Windows has a different file locking policy to Unix (a… more »
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