http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:26:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en exiftool is a very useful utility that allows you to query or edit EXIF information from pictures. Going through some of my pictures recently, I have found some sets of pictures with incorrect date in the EXIF info, be it a few hours off or even 1 year and a ... http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2008/09/06/batch-update-of-exif-info/ Very useful tip from Novel CoolSolutions on how to increase the disk size of a VMWare image: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/15344.html I currently develop mostly in Windows using Eclipse, so I decided to create an openSuse 11.0 vmware image to test some of my code, as our product supports various platforms, including some flavors ... http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2008/08/26/increasing-disk-size-of-a-vmware-image/ After three years living in San Jose, I was proven wrong on my assumption that it was impossible to commute in San Jose using public transportation. After careful examination of VTA time tables, and several trial and error attempts, I am now commuting to work, having found some good things ... http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2008/07/17/commuting-in-san-jose-and-it-podcasts/ When I migrated my development environment to Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede, one of the things that caught my attention on Eclipse's update website was a plugin called Mylyn. A visit to the website, a look over the webcast and it sounded something promising. It definitely is! Mylyn is a task manager that ... http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2008/07/01/mylyn-task-manager/ If you are into java and database development, you will find this article to be a gold mine: http://www.javaperformancetuning.com/tips/jdbc.shtml It contains links and summary to tens of other performance articles related with java database application development.Share This http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2008/05/02/jdbc-performance-tips/ Eu até aceiteva, mas tenho cá um feeling de que eles estão apenas interessados no meu donativo e não na minha amizade ;-). PS: será que as comissões de festas se estão a render às novas tecnologias e vão passar a aceitar donativos via Paypal? ;-)Share This http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2008/03/20/hi5-em-portuges/ Every other week Google Finance has a glitch in their real-time quote, resulting in some random company heading up the top gainers or losers. Usually, the glitch is just a few hundred or thousand percent in the company's (de)valuation, but today it hit all records: 10,647,115,776.00%!!! One stock went up ... http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2008/01/25/how-to-get-billionaire-in-one-day/ As a follow up on my last post comparing Static SQL with Dynamic SQL, I will now post an example of how to run the same code using static and dynamic SQL. One of my visitors left a comment saying that the scope of static and dynamic SQL in Oracle is ... http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2008/01/15/sqlj-and-jdbc/ I have been wanting to write a few technical articles here on the blog, so I'll start with something that is related with what I have been looking into at work: Static and Dynamic SQL. From the conversations I have had with both DBAs and developers, it is clear that DBAs ... http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2008/01/14/static-sql-vs-dynamic-sql/ Written from iPod touch. Touch screen keyboard sucks! I love my PDA with keyboard ;-) 5 minutes to write this post . Second part, written from laptop: I only had about 10 minutes to play with the Ipod Touch before the employee kicked be out. He wanted to go home ... http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2007/11/24/ipod-touch/