Selecting the Best Compiler Options

June 22nd, 2007 Fedora Core team, in its infinite wisdom, decided to ship a so-called "free" (but essentially useless and crappy; pardon my French) JVM (read gcj) with its installation. Not only that this "free" JVM is integrated with java softwares from Fedora repositories making them pretty hard to use too.

April 5th, 2008 A common error while configuring (running ./configure) software in Linux systems is - error: C++ compiler cannot create executables. The solution, not surprisingly is simple: Install the package which adds C++ support to the GNU Compiler Collection - gcc-c++.

February 3rd, 2005 Target Audience Java/JSP developers on Tomcat and Application Server administrators. Problem Tomcat 5.5 (unlike Tomcat 5.0 and versions below) comes with Eclipse JDT compiler enabled by default for JSP compilation.

September 27th, 2006 Allen Holub (Author of Compiler Design in C and famous OO Guru) said: "XML is perhaps the worst programming language ever conceived. I’m not talking about XML as a data-description language, which was its original design.

March 22nd, 2008 PHP files are scripts which are interpreted by php interpreter (php.exe in windows). Converting them to exe files makes it easy to distribute PHP applications to Windows users.

August 5th, 2009 Just to give all ya techies some food for real geeky thoughts, here is a kind of an eye opener of how much JDK 1.6 compiler has optimized itself over the years. Our developers were working on a project that needed IP addresses to get simplified and be represented by numbers.

March 26th, 2009 This small trick will tell you how you can compile a java source file from another java file on the go. You do not need to run it on a different page and compile it there and then get back to this program.

October 16th, 2005 James Gosling blogs about Java software performance myths and posts an interesting story (below). The comments contains few more stories from the trenches as they say.

March 4th, 2004 Update: Many of you are coming to this link as it is top ranked in google for jdk1.5. Welcome! Few links of interest judging from your comments: Download Java Development Kit (contains compiler, interpreter (with just-in-time compiler) and other tools for development and deployment) - This is a must download if you want to learn Java Java Tutorial - A good introductory tutorial on most Java topics Thinking in Java - For many it is a favorite book for learning Java.

October 18th, 2005 I had to sort and uniq (create a unique set of strings) a large list with lots of duplicate. My options were to write it in Java or download cygwin and run: cat file | sort | uniq > result Cygwin download never works for me.

March 25th, 2008 Browse to http://your.blog.domain/wp-admin/options.php Replace your.blog.domain with your own blog domain like for example blog.taragana.com for this blog.

November 14th, 2006 Sun is slowly releasing its implementations of the Java platform. The components of the Java SE implementation that Sun is releasing initially are the Java programming-language compiler (javac) and the Java HotSpot virtual machine.

June 30th, 2006 Most Java programmers attempt to use Ruby like they use Java, similar to the mistakes C/C++ programmers commit when transitioning to Java. However Ruby provides a cleaner programming paradigm which if embibed can be effectively used to solve your problems.

November 20th, 2005 BlueJ is an integrated Java environment specifically designed for introductory teaching in object oriented development with Java. I think it has lots of potential.

April 20th, 2008 1. Login to the Admin account (not the normal account) 2. Open up a command shell in the Terminal application by selecting - Macintosh HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal At the command prompt type this command: sudo passwd root You will then get the following prompts.