Tags: ubuntu | unity

This is a quick tip for people who haven't yet figured out how to change the size of the Unity Launcher bar. Yes, you know, the big vertical bar that is on the left-hand side of the screen in Ubuntu 12.04. When you first log in it's quite big and over-bearing.

Tags: eclipse | java | ubuntu

Now that Ubuntu Precise Pangolin 12.04 has been released, it looks like Unity is finally good enough for Development use. So, how can you get Global Menus to work with that fairly standard IDE, Eclipse...? Guess where the solution is...?

Tags: ubuntu

As you can't fail to notice, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin is now released. Well, you could fail to notice if you aren't using Ubuntu, but then I would be wondering why you are reading this...

Anyhow, when upgrading a computer at work, I ran into the following problem on reboot. Rebooting brought up the familiar Grub screen. However, selecting the newly installed Ubuntu came back with:

error: no such partition.

This indicates that grub thinks that the partition does not exist. It is not a very useful or welcome error message. The first step is:

DON'T PANIC....!!!!

Yes, you can recover your data from this. Just follow these steps...

Tags: java | maven

At the Mega-corp I work at, there is still some legacy code that uses JSPs. Of course, we all wish we could be using new technology like Wicket and other more interesting frameworks. However, sometimes we must work with that we have.

While working on Jsps a loop may be useful to debug. If you use:

<%
String[] tst=new String[]{"blah","de blah"};
        for(String s:tst){
        }
%>

When you try and compile it with Maven sometimes you may get:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:jspc-maven-plugin:1.4.6:compile (jspc) on project ui: JSPC Error: Unable to compile class for JSP
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] An error occurred at line: 424 in the jsp file: /pages/advancedBidding/google/campaignLst.jsp
[ERROR] Generated servlet error:
[ERROR] Syntax error, 'for each' statements are only available if source level is 5.0
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]

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