Archive for July 2008

Visio figures in LaTeX

This is one way to use figures made in Microsoft Visio in your latex (pdfLatex) document. The first step is to get the figure as a PDF file. If you are using Visio 2007 you may use the PDF add-in from Microsoft. Another option is using Adobe Acrobat or the free PDFCreator. When printing, select [...]

Installing GlassFish on Debian Etch or Ubuntu

I had to install GlassFish on an Debian Etch machine and here is how I did it (the purpose of these instructions is as a reminder to myself so I know what I did in case I have to do it again). Install Java 5 First thing needed is Java 5. To be able to [...]

Enable symbolic links in GlassFish

To enable symbolic links in GlassFish, which is disabled by default, go to the admin interface, click Configuration > Http Service > Virtual Servers and then the name of of the virtual server you are using (e.g. server). Under Additional Properties, click Add Property and enter allowLinking as name and true as value. It is [...]

Hibernate Annotations examples and reference

Found a really great reference with examples of Hibernate association mappings using annotations. http://tadtech.blogspot.com/2007/09/hibernate-association-mappings-in.html

Simple Backup on Linux and Ubuntu

Incremental encrypted remote backup using Amazon S3: Duplicity Incremental backup to another (remote) directory: rdiff-backup Easily available on Ubuntu using: sudo apt-get rdiff-backup Nice instructions for automating and scheduling backups. Simple backup by simply tar’ing everything, instructions on Ubuntu Forums.