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Entries from February 27th, 2008

Content Assist / Code Completion problem with Eclipse and Netbeans

February 27th, 2008 · 13 Comments · Programming

I’ve had the weirdest problem the other day. It was the first time I went back to using our DELL E1405 after being very comfortable with my company issued D620 (which I now had to surrender to my former employer). Everything was working well until I noticed a simple but very annoying problem:
CTRL+SPACE for Eclipse [...]

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Post Valentine's Quote

February 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Sunday School

Love is the Greatest
1 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had [...]

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SVN+SSH

February 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Tools

For the past few hours, I’ve been trying to figure out how to get rid of the “multiple password prompts” from TortoiseSVN when trying to view a remote repository using svn+ssh.
I’ve tried to follow a couple of well documented resources, but I can’t seem to make it work. I’m currently getting a “Server refused our [...]

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IBM developerWorks Firefox Plugin

February 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Programming, Tools

If you’re a Firefox user and a constant visitor of IBM developerWorks, then you might be interested in a Firefox search plugin for devWorks discussed here.
Taken directly from the link above:
Want to have easy access to developerWorks? You can now add our new search plugin to your Firefox browser (thanks to our own Peter Yim). [...]

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Fibonacci

February 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Books, Programming

If you were given a task to compute the nth Fibonacci number, how would you do it?
You would go straight away and write a recursive function right?

public static int getNumberRecurse(int n) {
if (n == 0 | n == 1) {
return 1;
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Checking out the Competition

February 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Library

Straight from the Apple Design Awards 2007 page, the Delicious Library is one tough act to follow. I think it should be a very good benchmark for the Library application that we are planning to develop.
Now all I need is a MacBook or MacBook Pro so I can start experimenting with the application…

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