Reflections

Arch Linux: faster pacman

By Yannick Loth, on January 8th, 2010

Instead of using pacman,I use pacman-color.
Instead of using pacman-color, I use powerpill.
Instead of using powerpill, I use yaourt.
Well, that’s the chain of wrappers around pacman I use:
yaourt->powerpill->pacman-color->pacman

This provides colorized output and parallel (thus faster) package downloads.

Simply change in /etc/yaourtrc:
PacmanBin = /usr/bin/powerpill
and in /etc/powerpill.conf:
PacmanBin = . . . → Read More: Arch Linux: faster pacman

Show icons in Fedora 12 / Gnome 2.28 menus

By Yannick Loth, on December 2nd, 2009

gconftool-2 –type boolean –set /desktop/gnome/interface/buttons_have_icons true
gconftool-2 –type boolean –set /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons . . . → Read More: Show icons in Fedora 12 / Gnome 2.28 menus

My Maven documentation sources

By yannick555, on November 4th, 2009

In this post I share the list of my usual Maven documentation resources. I know there are much more resource available on the web, but these are the ones I use most of time. They contain any important information for Maven first-time users as well as a lot of useful stuff for everyday users.

If I had . . . → Read More: My Maven documentation sources

Endian Firewall Community 2.3

By Yannick Loth, on November 2nd, 2009

This week-end, I managed to reconfigure my complete home network to use a virtualized instance of Endian Firewall 2.3 Community. And it rocks.

You simply download the ISO file, install it in a new VM, connect to its web interface, and that’s all. Or almost. I think even people without much knowledge of TCP/IP would be able . . . → Read More: Endian Firewall Community 2.3

Response to the post “Dependency Injection Makes Your Code Worse”

By Yannick Loth, on October 27th, 2009

This post is an answer to the post Dependency Injection Makes Your Code Worse

To me, Spring and other DI frameworks are only integration frameworks.

What I like about Spring? It’s simple AOP features, especially for transaction design. It’s integration with unit testing framework and the simplicity to write unit tests. And much more, but these are the . . . → Read More: Response to the post “Dependency Injection Makes Your Code Worse”

Eclipse 3.5.1 strange button behaviour on Linux

By Yannick Loth, on October 27th, 2009

To solve Eclipse 3.5.1′s strange button behaviour in wizard on Linux, execute:

export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true

before launching eclipse or add it to . . . → Read More: Eclipse 3.5.1 strange button behaviour on Linux

About classes and separation of concerns

By Yannick Loth, on July 29th, 2009

The object oriented programming paradigm involves developers to design code as classes. Classes associate data and behavior into one single abstraction.

That’s OK, but… how should one design code that only has behaviour or that only has data?

Is the class abstraction still the good one for cases where there is only behaviour? In this case, provided I . . . → Read More: About classes and separation of concerns

First part of LPIC 1 passed!

By Yannick Loth, on July 24th, 2009

Yesterday (July 23rd, 2009) I took and passed the LPI Level 1 Exam 101, with a global score of 580 (from min 200 to max 800, required passing score 500).

Here are my results for the different topics

System Architecture: 75%
Linux Installation and Package Management: 72%
GNU and Unix Commands: 57%
Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard: 80%

There’s a second . . . → Read More: First part of LPIC 1 passed!

Jazoon 2009 – Day 2

By Yannick Loth, on June 23rd, 2009

Jazoon 2009 Day 2 from my perspective. . . . → Read More: Jazoon 2009 – Day 2

More flexibility with JEE servers and web containers

By Yannick Loth, on May 13th, 2009

This article explains my point of view on what the JEE’s integration with web containers’ future should look like. . . . → Read More: More flexibility with JEE servers and web containers