Mithil Shah

I went on a trip to Singapore recently and took around 500 photographs. I am not very good behind a camera, so i just got trigger happy and clicked whatever i could. After coming back i transferred the photographs to my laptop and started organizing them. I had some photos in my cell phone, some … Read more

If you have a site developed in J2EE and deployed on apache tomcat or glassfish, then implementing a wordpress blog on your site would be challenging since wordpress is all PHP. In this article we show how to install wordpress on a J2EE server. In the previous article we saw how to install Quercus on … Read more

In this article we look at how to run a php file in apache tomcat using Quercus. For those of you who have no clue why this article should exist, here is the complete story; Apache Tomcat is a J2EE application server, which means, it can run web applications that have been written in java … Read more

This article looks at how to merge shapefile polygons using Quantum GIS. you can download Quantum GIS from Here. We demonstrate the merging using an example. We have a France shapefile that shows all the regions in France. We want to merge all the regions and create a single shapefile for France. Here are the … Read more

Debugging PHP pages for a web application may be challenging. However, firePHP, a firefox extension can make debugging PHP pages very simple. Here are the steps to start debugging using firePHP. 1. Install firebug from https://getfirebug.com/downloads. 2. Install the firePHP extension from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firephp/. The browser is now ready to receive the PHP logs that are sent from … Read more

Opening up multiple cygwin windows or windows command prompt has annoyed almost every developer who had to do it. This post presents a way to open tabbed cygwin and windows command prompt using Console (http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/) . Here are the steps: Download console2 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/. Unzip it and launch console.exe. This should open up a window that … Read more

Many a times we use static methods or constants in our class. For example if you are writing a math library, there are chances that you would need to use lot of math functions from java.lang.Math. for example to calculate the nth power of x you would do y = Math.pow(x,3); pow is a static … Read more

It is useful to redirect standard java output to a file. However, if you are wondering why your stacktrace from e.printStackTrace() is not being redirected to a file then read on… Say you have a program called RedirectExample.java. To redirect the output to a text file do java RedirectExample > output.txt However, if your code in … Read more

WordPress permalink URLs may contain index.php. The standard way to remove them on an apache server is to use a .htaccess file. However, if you are one of those few people who have wordpress on apache tomcat (application server) and see no advantage in installing a separate web server, there is a way in which … Read more

Building CDO with Netcdf, HDF5 and GRIB2  support. Download CDO from https://code.zmaw.de/projects/cdo/files. On a unix box download using wget-  “wget https://code.zmaw.de/attachments/download/11392/cdo-1.7.0.tar.gz.”  Use the latest verion of cdo. Download NetCDF from http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/netcdf/index.jsp. Use the C version. On Unix – “wget ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-4.3.3.1.tar.gz”. Download Grib API from https://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/display/GRIB/Releases. On unix – “wget https://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/download/attachments/3473437/grib_api-1.14.4-Source.tar.gz?api=v2” Download Jasper from http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~frodo/jasper/#download. On … Read more