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Being a Unix user (Linux/OSX) I need sometime to run some Windows utility in a Virtual Machine. But I don’t want to break the virtual machine, installing and uninstalling things, or accidentally, or by the wast hordes of viruses and malwares that infestate Windows. So, here I found how to do it: How to discard [...]

Today I was having a look on how the git-completition is implemented. If you have not enabled the completition for git, I think you should really read my article on how to do it. So I found this two links, that explain the basics on how to implement bash completion for simple commands: An introduction [...]

Those two skyscrapers are located in Medienhafen area in Düsseldorf. This picture is hdr processed from three shots, -2, 0, +2 exposure. The metal bulb at the bottom is the Pebble’s Bar, which by my understanding is managed by the hotel. What I like in this picture is the Blade Runner-like atmosphere and the sun [...]

Sunday afternoon I made an excursion in the Unterbacher See and I made some nature photos. I found a restaurant where this typewriting machine, an Adler Model 7 of 1900, was lying on a table. So I took a picture and I tried to apply the texture photo retouching technique that I learned recently. The [...]

Killepitsch liqueur can be tasted in the small bar “Et Kabüffke” near the brewery Uerige. I use to go in this place for a Killepitsch to complete the dinners with friends in the Düsseldorf altstadt (the old city). I’ve heard that Killepitsch is only available in Düsseldorf; I don’t know if this is true, but [...]

Are you habit to have some configuration files packaged inside the jar of your application? If so, you can still have a look at those configuration files in the running environment using the unzip Unix utility. $ unzip -p /opt/myapp/lib/my-app.jar log4j.properties log4j.rootLogger=INFO,stdout log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender log4j.appender.stdout.Threshold=INFO log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{dd-MMM hh:mm} [%-5p] %m%n The -p option uncompress and prints [...]

The Subalpine Gallery is one of the commercial malls of the city of Turin. Designed by Pietro Carrera in 1873 opened 30th September 1874. It owes its name to the Industrial Bank Subalpina who assumed the burden of the building. The gallery, located between Piazza Castello and Piazza Carlo Alberto, is fifty meters long, fourteen [...]

There is a nice area in Duesseldorf called Medienhafen. Here, you can find some originally shaped building designed by the architect Frank Gehry (but not the ones in the picture, I think) and the night view is beautifully illuminated by lights and reflexes on the Rhein river.

I wrote in a previous article how easy it is to translate Java object to/from XML, without adding exotic library dependencies to your project; recently I’ve going through the code of one of my colleague and I discovered that the 3 line necessary to marshal and un-marshal the XML can be shortened to a single [...]

Uerige is the Düsseldorf typical Alt beer and the name of the restaurant “Zum Uerige” in the Old Town.