Getting Confluence 5.9.3 on my Mac this time was a little too easy. It took all of 5 minutes and left me wondering if I had missed something. Caveat: I had gone through the pain of installing Java when I installed JIRA so this helped a lot. If you haven’t installed JIRA, look at my… Read More »
In Ubuntu, this comes out of the box but in terminal on OSX a few extra steps are required to get this to work. It is a bit of a hassle figuring out what needs to be done, but once you know, it literally takes 10 seconds. Step 1: Download auto completion script: >> cd… Read More »
Neat book for an overview to whet your appetite. 100 pages. Readable in a few hours.
Getting JIRA 7.0.5 on to my mac wasn’t as straight forward as I’d expected but I finally got there in the end. The first thing to note from the Atlassian website is: which was taken from https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/installing-jira-on-mac-os-x-191501161.html. These steps are what we will be following as well. If you are interested in what I had to… Read More »
Step 1: Add Mongodb to your sources.list.d (for Ubuntu 14.04) This allows you to get the latest files from mongodb.org when you run sudo apt-get install echo “deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu trusty/mongodb-org/3.0 multiverse” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.0.list Step 2: Reload the local package database sudo apt-get update Step 3: Install MongoDB sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org -y automatically… Read More »
Step 1: Stop the service sudo service mongod stop Step 2: Remove packages sudo apt-get purge mongodb-org* Step 3: Remove data directories sudo rm -r /var/log/mongodb sudo rm -r /var/lib/mongodb -r means recursive Reference: https://docs.mongodb.org/v3.0/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/
A simple concept in the C language is the evaluation of a boolean expression with an if statement. But what if the condition is not a typical relational or boolean expression? In C, it is possible to write: if (x){ // if x is true or great than zero printf(“x is true/has a value/great than… Read More »
Fantastic book. Highly recommend. 400 pages with solid references. Takes you on a whirlwind tour back in time. Gripping few days of reading.
Came across this detailed paper “What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory” by Ulrich Drepper dated 21 November 2007. (http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf) It is a long read but provides a wealth of background which explains some good fundamental concepts that are still valid today. Another article, http://marek.vavrusa.com/c/memory/2015/02/20/memory/ puts another “practical” spin on the original paper and is also… Read More »
If you encounter this error in Eclipse check if you are declaring a function within a function. Nested functions are available as a language extension in GCC but not part of the standard language. So the next time you see ‘invalid storage class for function ‘blah’, do a quick check on where you have defined… Read More »