Nifty tidbits

Nifty tidbits and random thoughts on technology and anything else that catches my fancy

Archive for March, 2007

Ninotech Path Copy 4

Posted by Raghu on March 16, 2007

Ninotech Path Copy 4
Novell Cool Solutions: Cool Tool

Was looking for a shell extension to copy filenames from explorer. Thought there’d be a dime a dozen - and it turns out that
a) they have 20 other things that I dont want.
b) Its trial ware.

Finally after searching high and low, came across this and it’s GREAT!

powered by performancing firefox

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Production Eclipse Configuration

Posted by Raghu on March 14, 2007

Part of the game of getting code out that conforms to coding standards without having to go through the “One Big spring cleaning” exercise is configuring and centralizing the tools.

At a minimum, it helps to have a central Eclipse installation that has all the tools configured and setup - so each person doesn’t have to do it. Alternatively, there should be a reference set of plugins and their configuration files available in the source control repository.  Here’s my eclipse configuration Read the rest of this entry »

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Tips for using Eclipse

Posted by Raghu on March 13, 2007

http://www.aspectprogrammer.org/blogs/adrian/2006/02/tips_for_using.html

Great Article - full of very very useful tips!

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Firefox - not so obvious search

Posted by Raghu on March 13, 2007

I discovered this - totally by accident.

In Firefox, you can use / (forward slash) to search for text OR links - and if its a link, then you can follow the link just by clicking Enter!  That is way cool - especially when you’re on a laptop and cant/dont have your mouse around. I’ve always find it a pain to do a “link find”  - ‘ (single quote) and a text find - ctrl-f separately…Never knew that there was a shortcut that did both and what more - its way natural if you’re used to ‘less’!!

To complete the keys for Firefox mouseless browsing,

  • space -  page down
  • shift - space - page up

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