MOOC: ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers

This short course provides a few basic techniques for using LLM. Here are my notes:

“The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism” by Olivia Fox Cabane. Back in 2012, I listened to this presentation by the author and wanted to dive in a little deeper by reading her book. Two and half years later, I finally made the time to read this book and here […]

HowTo: Setup GWT remote logging

I find the official documentation on remote logging wasn’t complete. Here are my notes based on various web sites I visited (here, here, and here). Hope this helps! App.gwt.xml You should add the inherits statement below. You should be able to adjust the log level to any of the following: ALL, FINEST, FINER, FINE, CONFIG, INFO, […]

Listing files excluding certain names

I need to list all files in a directory tree excluding files with certain text in its names. This thread helped me to create something similar: find . -type f |grep -v ‘/[.svn-base]’ –

Start a server software at system boot time

I needed to start svnserve at boot time as a particular user on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. After looking at this and this posts, I came up with the following: /etc/rc.d/rc.local su svn -c “svnserve -d” This effectively runs svnserve in daemon mode as svn user after all other init scripts ran at boot time.

Create a new domain with WebLogic

While attempting to crate a domain on the command line, I encountered an error complaining about missing terminalio. A looked around the web led me to this tip on how to work around the issue by adding the following parameter: -Dweblogic.management.allowPasswordEcho=true

Maven and WebLogic 12c

Today, I tried to use Maven with WebLogic 12c. The documentation for installation is straight forward. I was able to execute mvn wls:help without any difficulty. However, using the WebLogic plugin wasn’t as easy. In order to run commands such as mvn wls:start-server, I needed to configure various parameters, such as middlewareHome, domainHOme, user, password, […]

How to mount box.net on Ubuntu

Here is an instruction that worked for me. 🙂

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