Anemic Domain Models

February 13th, 2010 by Leandro Del Teso

A post by Martin Fowler that talks about a very common and used way of defining the domain layer and service layer in an application.

http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/AnemicDomainModel.html

Mic not working with C-Media soundcard and Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

February 4th, 2010 by Leandro Del Teso

The problem was that this on-board sound card is surround and, when in surround mode, the mic mini-plug input becomes Center /LFE output.

I fixed it this way:

1) Open “alsamixer”
2) Go to “Mic-In Mode” bar
3) Check that in “Item” (top-left corner), it reads “Mic-In Mode [Mic-In]”
4) If not (probably “Mic-In Mode [Center/LFE Output]“) hit up/down arrow keys until “Mic-In Mode [Mic-In]” is selected.
5) Check that mic is not muted. Go to “Mic” bar and check that it is not muted “Mic [Off]“. If it is, hit M key, you’ll get “Mic” only.

That should be it.

Some quality reading…

January 26th, 2010 by Leandro Del Teso

http://techdistrict.kirkk.com/2009/11/03/turtles-and-architecture/

http://techdistrict.kirkk.com/2009/12/15/architecture-all-the-way-down/

Thanks, Jorge!

Bubble Translate: An excellent extension for Google Chrome

December 10th, 2009 by Leandro Del Teso

This extension provides of a really simple an elegant way of translating web pages to your language. It uses translate.google.com services to translate, and the way it does it is simply excellent!. Just keep Ctrl key pressed while selecting the text you want to translate and it will display the translation in a bubble in-line.

Also it provides a menu to select the translation of the entire web-page or to open a form (like the one in translate.google.com) for real-time translation.

Highly reccomendable.

You can found the extension here: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jlhlebbhengjlhmcjebbkambaekglhkf

And Google Chrome, here: http://www.google.com/chrome/

Installing ImageMagick from source in Ubuntu

December 7th, 2009 by Leandro Del Teso
Start by removing any old versions previously installed via apt-get:
sudo apt-get remove imagemagick

Then update apt-get and install some supporting packages:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libperl-dev gcc libjpeg62-dev libbz2-dev libtiff4-dev libwmf-dev libz-dev
libpng12-dev libx11-dev libxt-dev libxext-dev libxml2-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms1-dev
libexif-dev perl libjasper-dev libltdl3-dev graphviz gs-gpl pkg-config

Use wget to grab the source from ImageMagick.org.

Once the source is downloaded, uncompress it:

cdtar xvfz ImageMagick.tar.gz

Now configure and make:

cd ImageMagick-6.5.0-0
./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

To avoid an error such as:

convert: error while loading shared libraries: libMagickCore.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Add the following line to ~/.bashrc:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
sudo ldconfig

You can confirm the install and available formats with:

identify -list format

Source: http://www.digitalsanctum.com/2009/03/18/installing-imagemagick-from-source-on-ubuntu-804/

Listening to Last.fm from Ubuntu

November 18th, 2009 by Leandro Del Teso

A friend reccommended me Last.fm player for Ubuntu.

Simply run:

sudo apt-get install lastfm

That’s it, it works flawlessly and it consumes about 10-12KiB/s of your bandwitdh. Pretty cool, right? Now configure it with your last.fm account details and enjoy Last.fm Radios on your Linux box.

App installers for Java

November 11th, 2009 by Leandro Del Teso

IzPack is a one-stop solution for packaging, distributing and deploying applications.

It is fully cross-platform and generates a single installer. As such, it is an alternative to native solutions such as platform-specific installers and package managers.

IzPack-generated installers only require a Java virtual machine to run.

Further on: http://izpack.org

5 days of Apache Wicket

October 28th, 2009 by Leandro Del Teso

5 days of Wicket!

Source: http://www.mysticcoders.com/blog/2009/03/09/5-days-of-wicket/

2 amazing books I am reading rigth now

October 3rd, 2009 by Leandro Del Teso

These are 2 amazing books I am reading right now.

  • Head First Design Patterns
  • Wicket In Action

I post here the Amazon links, feel free to use them.

Cheers… 

Turn off Eclipse's tooltips

September 21st, 2009 by Leandro Del Teso

Go to:

Window > Preferences > Java > Editors > Hovers

and disable Combined Hover.

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/871732/turn-off-tooltips-in-eclipse-aptana