http://www.mozammelhaque.net tech notes Fri, 30 May 2008 04:42:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After upgrading my laptop from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04, I was having trouble running my vmware server. This page has a solution to properly install vmware server on Ubuntu 8.04. http://www.mozammelhaque.net/2008/05/17/vmware-server-on-ubuntu-804/ As Microsoft is planning to shut down support for Windows XP, a new open source OS is on the horizon. It is called ReactOS and they claim to achieve binary compatibility with Windows XP while being fully open source. Certainly a project to keep our eyes on. http://www.mozammelhaque.net/2008/05/10/reactos-alternative-to-windows-xp/ Check out this site: http://omi.net.bd/?cat=103 to enable bangla keyboard layout (unijoy) on your Ubuntu installation. It has very detailed step to have you start typing bangla in any linux application. http://www.mozammelhaque.net/2008/05/09/write-bangla-%e0%a6%ac%e0%a6%be%e0%a6%82%e0%a6%b2%e0%a6%be-on-your-ubuntu/ Well, we have been doing it for a long time, now the future looks more interesting as we are getting an application server from SpringSource itself, which will natively support Spring and OSGi. For more information, visit the following links: SpringSource Launches New Application Server without Java EE SpringSource Application Platform http://www.mozammelhaque.net/2008/05/02/java-enterprise-without-java-ee/ This entry is note to me so that I can come back to it later on when needed. 1. Download git from: http://git.or.cz/ 2. Uncompress it and go to the uncompressed git directory. 3. run: sudo apt-get build-dep git-core 4. run: sudo apt-get install libssl-dev 5. run: make configure 6. run: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local 7. run: make all ... http://www.mozammelhaque.net/2008/04/19/quick-install-git-155-on-a-fresh-ubuntu-710/ I am fond of O'Reilly books since my college days. I've found their books to be practical and to the point. Do you know that they host a site called O'Reilly Open Books? I was looking forward to buying this book: "Free as in Freedom" and I found that they ... http://www.mozammelhaque.net/2008/04/13/do-you-know-about-oreilly-open-books/ I'm excited to see this recent thread at TheServerSide.com. It says that Jetty is showing strong growth. Looking back one year down the road, I'm glad that we made the decision of using Jetty for both running the openfire chat server and also running our middle tire server which is ... http://www.mozammelhaque.net/2008/04/12/happily-ever-after-with-jetty/ At Therap our scrum meetings used to grow longer than our expected time frame of 15 minutes. It was working as a deterrent for the module owners and other participants to actively participate in the daily scrums efficiently. So, to tame ourselves from swiveling away from core scrum topics, we ... http://www.mozammelhaque.net/2008/04/10/nifty-little-tool-to-time-your-scrum-meetings/ I was looking for a solution to inserting tab in text area while typing in FireFox. Normally, in FireFox, pressing tab takes the cursor to next element in focus sequence. Instead of doing this, I wanted to have a 'TAB' character entered in the text area that I'm typing in. ... http://www.mozammelhaque.net/2008/03/07/tab-in-text-area-while-typing-in-browser/ Source: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080304/nytu061.html?.v=101 Therap Services, a service bureau providing an integrated suite of online applications to organizations working with people with developmental disabilities, announces the promotion of Md. Mozammel Haque to Project Manager. Mozammel will have the primary responsibility of leading and facilitating different teams at Therap. "Mozammel has made remarkable contributions to ... http://www.mozammelhaque.net/2008/03/06/prnewswire-therap-services-promotes-mozammel-haque-to-project-manager/