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Eclipse Classic (3.6 a.k.a Helios or 3.7) and the Marketplace plugin

28th March 2011 Eclipse

After you've downloaded and installed Eclipse Classic (like the Helios release, or version 3.7), the Marketplace client plugin will not be installed. You can however find and install this plugin via the Help -> Install new software... menu. Check the …

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How to on port redirection in Cherokee

30th December 2010 Cherokee

To redirect http://a.mysite.com to http://mysite.com:8000 follow these steps in your Cherokee admin web environment: First go to the vServers tab and create a virtual server with name a.mysite.com and give it a document root, e.g. /var/www. Then link to the …

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0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3 and 0.1 * 0.2 != 0.02

29th October 2010 Software development, Project management

What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic. A shorter and simpler explanation can be found here.

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How to ask questions the smart way

15th July 2010 Linux, Software development, Project management

In the world of hackers, the kind of answers you get to your technical questions depends as much on the way you ask the questions as on the difficulty of developing the answer. This guide will teach you how to …

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What's wrong with libraries, and what to do about it

16th April 2010 Software development, Project management

Surely "Just learn these 57 classes" is not the re-use we were promised?

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