Nicolas Bize

Eclipse’s options can be tough to parse. I recently found a way to change the background color of the current debug line, which makes it easier on the eyes when it comes to step-by-step debugging:

• General\\Editors\\Text Editors\\Annotations
• Debug Current Instruction Pointer
• mark both "General\Editors\Text Editors\Annotations\Debug Call Stack" and "General\Editors\Text Editors\Annotations\Debug Current Instruction Pointer" to the same color

If you can read parts of a book online, you can most likely find it for free.

Lets say you wanted to read one of my favorites, “Code Complete” 2nd edition by Steven C. McConnell:

• Find the book on Amazon
• Click to look inside and read the first pages
• Navigate to a random page that has text contents, like p24 for example
• Take a random phrase and write it down with quotes on each side. For ex “although this chapter lays the groundwork for successful software construction”
• Googleit using quotes alongside the filetype:pdf suffix
• Click “repeat the search with the omitted results included”
• You should see a few links to fully scanned paperback versions

I’m more of a paper book person, but this always comes in handy.

Useful prompt when needing to find (and kill) which process is using a specific port on Windows:

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netstat -aonb  findstr [port-nb]
taskkill /PID [pid]

Well here it is: another attempt to keep an updated blog… I’ve gone the minimalist route, this first post won’t be much different. Now let’s try and write regularly…