Month: 18 years ago

Linux

Configuring a kernel for a laptop

I’m testing Fedora Core 4 on my laptop. Basically installing it, playing around with GNOME and KDE, and the different applications that it has. I have already burnt a DVD+R (another copy of FC4 for a friend) without a problem with K3b (K3b rules! ). Eclipse comes on the installation DVD, and I installed it, […]

Guillermo Castro 
Tips

Accessing a Spring bean from a servlet

I’m using Ajaxtags to implement an ajax-enabled form with dynamic dropdown fields. In order to access my DAO object (which is a Spring managed bean)  to get the dropdown options, I had to have access to the Application context from a regular Servlet. The solution is very simple, but since I had some troubles finding […]

Guillermo Castro 
Java Linux

Best Linux distribution for java

I’ve been using Gentoo on my laptop for a while, and while I find the features of Gentoo to be very powerful (compile from source to target your specific machine, central source repository, repository synchronization, etc), the fact that updating any major application takes a couple of days has really hit me. I’ve been looking […]

Guillermo Castro 
Java Web

Zimbra is very cool

While reading the morning news, I found an entry on JavaLobby talking about a new Open Source Collaboration system written in Java. The Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a Java-based, AJAX-enabled web application that can do email, contacts, calendar, etc. I used the demo and I’m very impressed. I see that they have borrowed many concepts […]

Guillermo Castro 
General

Another reason to use Gmail

I was checking my email today on Gmail, and I saw that I had 1 spam mail. This isn’t uncommon, since gmail has so far recognized every unsolicited mail. Sometimes, depending on the mood I am, I open these spam emails, just to see what they’re supposed to be selling, etc. and have a good […]

Guillermo Castro