New Books
It's been kinda quiet lately. I've been busy reading.
Yup, that's right. Reading.
I got a book shipment from amazon.com last week and I have been reading since then. These are the books I got:
- Head First Design Patterns
- Design Patterns
- Refactoring
- Mythical Man Month
- Programming Pearls
- Coders at Work
So, as you can see, I have a *LOT* to read. The good thing about my job, is that it allows me some spare time to educate myself.
I haven't done any programming in the last week, but I promise I'll write a post on blackberry development in the next few days, just let me finish my book first 
Eclipse DPT JDBC Drivers
I just installed eclipse-dpt for my database access (works great, btw).
But I needed some JDBC "drivers" for my SQL Engines (namely MySQL and MS SQL). So, to save you the burden of looking for the files all over the internet, here it is, in a single zip file
JDBC Drivers for MySQL and MSSQ
The zip contains 3 jar files:
- mysql-connector-java-5.1.12-bin.jar - For MySQL v5.1 or lower
- sqljdbc.jar - MS SQL versions 2005 and 2000
- sqljdbc4.jar - This works only for MS SQL 2008
Just uncompress the file into some folder, and add the appropiate drivers from eclipse dpt and you're done!
Update: This listing includes links to JDBC drivers for all major database engines.
Ubuntu Quirks (ongoing…)
Windows Key not detected
If your "Windows Key" (Super_L) is not detected, you will have to run this command:
xmodmap -e "remove mod4 = Super_L"
It seems to work even after rebooting the machine
Can't install Eclipse plugins
In order to install eclipse plugins, after installing eclipse-platform, you *must* install the eclipse-pde package (which comes with the eclipse-jdt as a dependency, oh well...)
This is an ongoing effort to write the odd things I have to do to get my OS to behave as I want.
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