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Ubuntu: Some figures are not printed in PDF files?

2011-11-23T13:44:00.000+01:00

It gets really annoying especially when there is no time for dealing with that. I have had this problem from time to time printing pdflatex or OOffice pdf files. Some images are not printed. The problem occurs when you have multi-layer image in your pdf (actually converting the image to pdf does not help). I must admit I don't have a time to find a core problem. Therefore, the simple solution is

Latex balancing last column.

2011-03-23T09:14:00.000+01:00

I was asked to adjust my paper to the publisher's requirements. That included balancing the last page. Well, life is sometimes easier than you could expect. Just \usepackage{flushend}.

buying E-books: thousands reasons against DRM

2011-02-27T23:18:00.000+01:00

I have a great device that makes my life easy and colorful (well gray is a color, isn't it ?) - BeBook Neo. I decided to read some new books bought in polish e-store. It should be easy ? It was not: The book have a DRM. I am using Linux. If you sum-up these two you can end up in hell. First, to read content which is protected you need to have an Adobe Digital Edition. As, usual there is no

CNF goes RAP.

2011-02-21T13:53:00.001+01:00

I am glad to announce that Common Navigation Framework is ported to RAP. Thanks to the effort of CNF it was not so difficult. There is a lot publish on CNF, so if you want to know how to start with CNF you can go here or there. Framework is really useful and now ready to be used in webapps. Anyway I decided to show a short example. So here it is. There are two content providers that contribute

Xubuntu 9.04 + sound controls + T61

2009-09-01T01:06:00.004+02:00

Well sometimes some things are not so obvious. At least for me.Recently I have overcame most annoying problem with my T61 Xubuntu configuration.This is first IBM/Lenovo hardware I've ever have to configure sounds buttons but maybe I screw up something before.Anyway, it seams that tpb doesn't help in this case. Fortunately, I've found this blog entry. To make it simple you need to configure your

Time...

2009-03-16T22:17:00.003+01:00

It was a while since I had written for the last time. Well sorry to say but I was busy. I newer thought that meeting can consume a great part of the week. But there are positive aspect of those days.I have several topics to come out with: finalization of spring osgi vs. standard one considerations GWT with spring Spring Security with JSON protocol JPA/HibernateI really regret to drift from

Spring Server + Maven + Eclipse notes

2009-01-22T17:13:00.005+01:00

I feel I am a bit more experienced than when I've started. Last time I've mentioned about problems I've faced. Maybe it's high time to elaborate a bit about solutions. Tools:Eclipse 3.4.1 - siteSpring IDE - update siteSpringSource - Tool Suite dm Server Tools update siteMaven Tools - update siteDependencies management:There are two aspect to discus. Firstly that we are usually manage our

Tools integration

2009-01-19T11:27:00.002+01:00

Hopefully I've found support for all ideas used in our project. Eclipse, and it is not surprising for those knowing me, as my IDE. Maven as a project build tools (at the moment working well only as Eclipse embedded).Maven tooling for Eclipse. Spring Server. Spring tooling and spring tooling for eclipse. Have I missed sth ? Off course there there are SVN Track and everything eclipse has to support

Spring Integration Testing for Web

2009-01-18T11:53:00.006+01:00

I am building OSGi web based (partially) application. As usual when you touch new area of technology (especially new technology) it tends to be problematic. Today problem I have faced three weeks ago. How to test web controller. Maybe its not a problem at all (you can configure everything manually), but I really wanted to use spring support for testing. If you're preparing a test for IoC managed

biding jobs ?

2008-11-25T19:13:00.004+01:00

when we look at the Poland there are some very important biding systems. Allegro ... ... ... ... well ok there is only one. We have eBay but as they have not very successful start it is like saing we have świstak.But to my surprise you can bid for work. not literally ;) but look at that. freaky ;)

The minor changes

2008-11-25T18:52:00.002+01:00

There must be such a day once a year (at least once). Something has passed away something comes. I am back to Poznan. I want to follow the path of technical blogging. Eclipse, Springframework, Ruby (from scratch) are topic of higher attention this month. And as I am going to blog about eclipse on our enthusiasts' blog the other topics will be commented here. Hopefully I will find some time and

Does anyone need an Eclipse developer?

2008-08-26T12:18:00.006+02:00

GSOC is about to end.There is a time for change. Maybe not at the moment but in very near future. I have some reasons, personal one to move to Frankfurt for a longer time. The personal one. If you are looking for Eclipse developer, Java (plain, Struts2, Spring, Hibernate ...), requirements engineer, analyst, designer. If you are looking for such a person in nearby Frankfurt/Main, Mainz, or for

End of the GSOC 2008

2008-08-26T11:35:00.004+02:00

It was nice adventure with the GSOC this year. But my journey with the PDE customization support is not finished. We need to make it as useful as we can. But I owe all of you some summary. What we have on board:Remove features from tree (Views, Commands etc.. - in general all IPluginElements / IPluginExtensions if you are familiar with the PDE Product model)Changing name of nodes. Launching

Product configuration will let you set plugin options

2008-07-24T01:40:00.000+02:00

So what was the path to this point. First I implemented some Product Customization features. Then I was struggling with product export function but finally it works. Just recently I've started to work on launching with transformations. And now is time for changes. We should be able to add users possibility to set plug-ins properties. Start level, osgi properties ...What I can say it is not small

Product Customization - reactivation

2008-07-22T23:56:00.000+02:00

It is time to start with the second part. As you can easy see if you tried use the Product Customization tooling, as it is now, there is much to do. As removal parts of description works pretty well there is no other type of action supported at the moment. Another feature missing is launching product with the transformations applied. This problem affects more than just Product Customization

Reckoning

2008-07-14T23:25:00.000+02:00

We can distinguish variety of aspect in our lives. They are semi-dependent, overlapping, fluent. It's great when you can find path through your life and are able to cope with them all. Steering your life through the ocean of decisions. I was wondering how it looks in my case. Well let me focus on so called "professionals life" cause my private I wish keep private. So, scientific carrier: teaching

Product Customization in action

2008-07-14T00:04:00.000+02:00

I just created some movie showing all features implemented in first milestone. Unfortunately quality of video is very low after uploading it to google videos. (this may change in the future but now it is like it is :/) Basically how it works. We have new tab called customization which enables us to add customization. The only available at the moment is removal of the extension or element from

Procuct Customizations (transforms) GSOC milestone

2008-07-12T19:56:00.000+02:00

there is time for semirelax, everything goes as planned.Costumes TransformersHochgeladen von kendy

Living in dorm

2008-06-30T22:04:00.000+02:00

among positive aspects of living in my Frankfurt's dorm one is worth to mention:view from the window ;Dof course there are also negative aspects not worth mentioning ;)

"Fiszki" approach to learning german language

2008-06-30T21:48:00.000+02:00

As my German still is not at the point I want it, I decided to speed up learning process. To achieve it I took the SuperMemo approach in its paper version. As a result there is a dozen of boxes with some vocab lying round my room, pockets backpacks, washing machine (yup they are watter and washing powder proof to some extend ;) )How each box look like: It contain cartons with polish translation

PDE Product Customization at code.google.com

2008-06-30T21:43:00.000+02:00

As I've said before this is I placed the code at code.google.com.The think that should be higlighted here is that google doesn't know about EPL.It sad to see that so at the moment code is shared with BSD license. To get the code please refer to http://code.google.com/p/product-customization/ page.To make code working you also may need

before milestone

2008-06-28T14:08:00.000+02:00

there are several things to do before adding feature produced in first part of program. Product Customization branch will be synchronized with HEAD both plug-ins will be placed in code.google.com before producing Eclipse patch.Question is: will it be long weekend ? ;)

Product Customization mock

2008-06-09T19:49:00.001+02:00

This is a very roughly view of what Product Customization section can look like in the near future. All user transformations planed in PDE will be available through context menu in Extension section. There also view for the product with changes is visible Transformations section will enable us to remove transformation we no longer needed. But this is also a overview of all transformation added

Ausflug in the rain :D

2008-06-07T17:41:00.000+02:00

And don't you think that I spend all weekend on code (but maybe I should). Last weekend we took train to some picturesque little town on the Rhine (or if you prefer German name Rhein) bank.It was nice but weather was not the best for making photos. Anyway here they are.

Relearning SWT

2008-06-07T17:28:00.000+02:00

I've started with Product Customization some time ago, most of the time I've spent on doing "research code" and designing structure. Many times I've been choosing not exactly optimal ways, but thanks to the Kim's voice of wisdom I am on the right track. I started with finishing what already was done in the Product Customization are, as I wanted also to add some funny details I am working right

Aproximation of approximation of ...

2008-05-26T11:07:00.000+02:00

Approximation is sometimes only way to make something reasonable. What is the problem: When you are adding new transformation you need to describe for which plug-ins it should be applied. Now simple approach is taken - choose the first one found. The problem is that it can return strange errors when you will add new pattern which also matches other plug-in.We've been talking how to deal with that

Long May weekend

2008-05-06T09:52:00.000+02:00

Since I disabled weather cast plug-in in Firefox whether is nice. So it was during the long weekend. As previously I tend to travel on these days I did similar thing this year. The difference is that previously it had been hiking and this time it was swan :)Here you will find some photos.

Product Customization

2008-05-06T00:11:00.000+02:00

There is high time to provide you with some useful links in case you are interested in this project. First of all wiki page in PDE incubator projects category. The second one in case you like to follow project on bugzilla.I will try to add some content to the wiki page this week.

Simple(x) Problem

2008-05-05T23:08:00.000+02:00

Imagine you have following a problem. There are some people which needs access to some resources (lets make it students and beer problem). There are some dorms where students are located and shops which stores specific amount of this golden drink. As students are very lazy mammal they can access only this shops that are not very distanced. We must provide each student with a bear. How to organize

GSOC 2008 - Eclipse

2008-04-22T15:37:00.000+02:00

With the start of my adventure in Frankfurt GSOC adventure has started. This year I apply for the project in Eclipse PDE and I've got it (as announced yesterday). I'm very pleased with the fact that this is a way to add the biggest piece of software to Eclipse in one chunk since I've started. Kim has been sentenced to work with me ;) If you want to follow the project in the bugzilla here is the

Spring goodies

2008-04-14T09:20:00.000+02:00

It is not gona be about spring behind window. It's a word about springframework.Spring is huge but very flexible. One has two options use all it gives or modules one needs. Nevertheless it can be quite annoying. Whenever you decide to use subset of its modules DAO support is provided in spring-tx.jar. This package is also needed when you decide to use Spring JDBC support classes.This way my

Google's hegemony

2008-04-10T09:56:00.000+02:00

Yesterday I had a talk with Piotrek about Google extensive and aggressive politic. In Poland there are several companies which monopolize some segments of the marked. Sentenced to Google doesn't sound very realistic neither optimistic :). The big difference between Google monopoly and eg. Polish telecom company is that it is not to the fact that there is no other choice. In case of Google it is

Sometimes

2008-04-09T14:13:00.000+02:00

How many times you needed to back away from assumptions you have made ? This is not really time I want to go with the story further. But as I've browsed the bash I've found something that made me laugh: HI EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!! try pressing the the Caps Lock key O THANKS!!! ITS SO MUCH EASIER TO WRITE NOW!!!!!!! fuck me

Tracing the BEAST

2008-04-02T23:13:00.000+02:00

I have spent some time on analyzing BEAST code. I have started with the describing packages with UML. Then I've moved to the business logic analysis. Let me introduce you BEAST's configurator. It can be found in dr.xml. Configuration of BEAST simulation is given by xml file. Each xml node has its realization in java code. BEAST is using builder pattern (or maybe it's better to say builder's

Articulate - kids don't use it at home ;)

2008-03-28T12:51:00.000+01:00

Well sometimes there is a need to share some knowledge with others. Sometimes you want to get some knowledge from others. And finally sometimes there is a time to do both at the same moment. As we are interested how non-functional requirements influence software architecture we decide to ask some specialist. As it should be done nice and smooth we decide to take M$ Office and Articulate&Quizmaker

BEAST code reverse engineering - in progress

2008-03-19T15:43:00.000+01:00

As I've recently said there is no perfect tool (and this is only my private opinion) which can do all class reverse engineering for me. But as I tried o dozen of them there is one which works not bad. Omondo can reverse from Java 1.5 and as is stated on features site can do much more. Anyway I found it useful. Don't get me wrong, I really like idea of using EMP and MoDisco but I don't have time

PERL for fast and ugly scripts :)

2008-03-12T17:45:00.000+01:00

Yup. Example below. Data generator for dishonest casino example from "Biological sequences analysis". Yes I know that states are hardly changeable :). I am putting this code here also to hear answer for this question. how to produce nice colored html output from Eclipse. Eclipse -> Open office -> blogger is quite disappointing solution. $outputName = $ARGV[0];$dices = $ARGV[1];@fair = (

Reversing BEAST

2008-03-12T11:37:00.000+01:00

I am exhausted :) Have you ever tried reverse java code using open source software (and also community editions of popular commercial tools) ?? Under Linux ? :DWell, sometimes it works. And sometimes not necessarily. BEAST is a cross-platform program for Bayesian MCMC analysis of molecular sequences. This software package contains almost 800 java classes (and I don't mention classes from used jar

Mulitilingua :D

2008-03-10T11:45:00.000+01:00

To live in Germany you must know German :) Well it is not truth although this language is very useful ;) Recently I meet one of my neighbors. Georgi is studding law and came from Georgia. The probable was I speak some English and a bit German whereas he speaks some German and acceptable Russian. I though I understand Russian until that day ;). So we were communicating in this languages' mixture

how to find IBAN for the German bank

2008-02-27T14:15:00.000+01:00

Do you know what anIBAN is ? I thought that this standard is used everywhere. How does it look in Germany ? Well as I need to transfer money for registration fee at the university and for dormitory rental I've got the bank numbers. In the competition national bank numbers vs. IBAN: 2:0. It was quite surprising as Frankfurt is known as German's bank center. How to deal with that ? Well, before I

Random walk

2008-02-25T17:50:00.000+01:00

It looks like my process of learning bioinformatics. Though, it should be rather breadth first ;). On of the first MCMC algorithms in my case was Metropolis-Hastings algorithm. And if you will look for good visualization of it please give a try this applet.

Going to Leipzig (working with *.tex files)

2008-02-20T14:52:00.000+01:00

This year we managed to publish our educational paper on ICSE. As in a few days is deadline for camera ready papers we put the finishing touches on. One of the requirements for this paper is to send document in one source file (bibliography included). As we always work on the multiple *.tex files there is a need to combine it. One of the solution (and the only one was used in previous

On the road

2008-02-17T14:47:00.000+01:00

Last Thursday I did 1900 kilometers. Czarnkow-Frankfurt-Czarnkow. First of all I need to thanks my brother. It didn't happened without his help. We spent in the car about 20 hours. What for ? First of all I wanted to look in most beautiful eyes in the world. But as I don't want to talk about my privacy to much, let me tell you about two issues:German Ordnung and German's roads.I've been always

Health insurance

2008-02-12T17:22:00.000+01:00

As Poland is part of the European Union we can use our insurance round EU. The only thing you need is insurance card called EKUZ. But to my surprise the card is written in Polish ;) I can only assume that all card in whole Europe has the same design and are this way recognizable. Anyway, when you are in my age please be aware that there are some problems with the card ;) When you are passing 26

Crawling through the information's ocean

2008-02-10T21:10:00.000+01:00

What do you think hearing a "bioinformatics" ?? Genetics, statistics, probability theory, computational mathematics, data mining, wtf ? ;) And from my short experience you can find that all. I can say, I am excited cause bioinformatics integrates my knowledge with the ocean of new methods and problems. Continuous improvement ... But there is also a risk, I should have learn more in high-school or

On the road of basis

2008-02-05T13:45:00.000+01:00

What I am doing for living ? Well, I am software engineer. I work on the software architecture analysis methods at the university, I work as developer (in Eclipse) and consultant/support engineer (for the last year in IBM). What I will be doing in Frankfurt ? During next half I year I will work for the bioinformatics team. Work... well we will see how much of work means an exchange program (

4'th February - World Cancer Day

2008-02-05T00:20:00.000+01:00

Everybody has heard about cancer, how dangerous it is... Scientists are working on treatment strategies but that is nothing without our personal engagement. All you need is good prevention plan. I've just got a great presentation made by the most wonderful person I've ever met. It should be really helpful. And remember all you need is good prevention plan. When you have it there is nothing to be

Ready, steady, go

2008-01-30T13:52:00.000+01:00

It is about a month before my trip to Frankfurt. I am a software engineer (at least I'm going to be) so the whole situation is new for me. I'm going to work in the bioinformatics team and I'm brushing up my high-school knowledge about genetics. The second thing is my German. It doesn't exists. I've never been an enthusiast of that language but now I think I am ready for it :D.And if you are Phd