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Nice UI for Netbeans

Daniel Selinger — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:23:51 +0000

As Netbeans under Linux (Ubuntu) is ugly as hell, I’ve searched for solutions.
This post gives some directions: http://javahowto.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-customize-netbeans-look-and-feel.html & here.
The best option in my opinion is to start Netbeans with this command:
netbeans --laf com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel
Next thing is to get an acceptable docky icon for the IDE…

//edit 160611:
Found a solution on launchpad (see #7 & #10). It works for AWN :)

Customize Firefox Tabs

Daniel Selinger — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:17:48 +0000

Uh yeah! If you want to change the colors and stuff in your Firefox browser search for a file called “userchrome.css”.
The file should be in the “chrome” directory in your Firefox profile directory.

On Ubuntu it’s in “home/[user]/.mozilla/firefox/[...]/chrome”

Facebook Share: Custom title & description

Daniel Selinger — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:42:22 +0000

Thanx to Drew on Stackoverflow I now know how to do this. Take a look: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2950189/facebook-share-doesnt-show-my-description-or-my-thumbnail

Manipulate SWFs via JS

Daniel Selinger — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:35:44 +0000

After some searching I finally found a link to a site with the SWF-JS attributes on the swfobject-page.

HTH -> Flash JS Attributes

Create multipage PDF under Linux in one line

Daniel Selinger — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:21:49 +0000

This will be the start of my “Things I’m to lazy to remember” series.

As a freelance guy on a Linux-Box sooner or later you will have the need to create multipage PDFs (in my case invoices scanned by xsane).
So, how? No prob. On my distri (Ubuntu) it’s fairly simple:

gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf in1.pdf in2.pdf

Using Imagemagick it’s even easier and you don’t need PDFs (but you have to tune the quality):

convert *.jpg myPDF.pdf

For the record, I got those hints from the always helpful Ubuntu-Forums ;)

Ruby & Rails on 1und1 VPS

Daniel Selinger — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:22:42 +0000

As a VPS @ 1und1 is one of the well-configured VPS I’ve ever seen, I post this little HowTo to get things done…

Targets:

Get the OS working, especially the package manager
Install Ruby (1.8.6)
Install Rails (2.0.2)

Environment:

OS: CentOS 5
Plesk 8.4

Hey ho, let’s go:

Get yum working
As yum IS NOT working after the automated OS install, we will start here.
Yum complains about 2 packages missing:

python-iniparse
yum-fastestmirror

You can get them on a mirror listed here. Install them with rpm -ivh. Now yum should work. As the preset package sources suck, I propose that you edit the config in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo. You can look at my config for reference.

As gcc ISN’T installed, you should install it. Also you should install mysql-devel.
Install Ruby
Download Ruby from it’s website. Extract it. Install it:
```
$ make
$ make install
```
In my case I had problems with zlib and openssl. To fix this, check if zlib and zlib-devel are installed. Also you have to go in the extracted Ruby sourcefolder and install it by hand. To do so, make follow this steps:
```
$ cd rubysource
$ cd ext
$ cd zlib
$ ruby extconf.rb
$ make
$ make install
```
Do the same for openssl. If you want to use mysql, get the C library. Here’s the source and the manual.
Now get rubygems. You should take version 1.1.1. Now your Ruby installation should be fine. Now install Rails:
```
$ cd rubysource
$ gem install rails -v 2.0.2
```

Now Ruby & Rails should be up and running. Hope this helps :)

Working IE6 PNG fix

Daniel Selinger — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:47:41 +0000

I didn’t thought it would really exist: A working png fix for the IE 6. But it does!

Check this out: http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/

All you have to do is to add some strange CSS to your stylesheet:

#myIdSelector{
 behavior: url(path/to/this/iepngfix.htc);
 }

Perhaps you also have to add this to your htaccess:

AddType text/x-component .htc

More info available on the author’s site.