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Partition and Format Drive With NTFS
Say we bought an external hard drive to back up some stuff from a crashed computer. We can use a Live USB to get at the data and put the data on the external hard drive. Because the data needs to be accessible by Windows, we are going to use format the drive with NTFS.
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Create Arch Linux Live USB
Creating a Arch Linux live USB is easy. In this post, I will walk you through downloading and verifying the image, finding your USB drive and copying the image onto it, all from the convenience of the command line.
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Spring Basics Conditional Bean Wiring
In Spring, it’s possible to wire a bean only when some condition is met.
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Spring Basics Dynamically Inject Values With Springs Value
If we do not want to hard-code values into our source code, we can use properties files. With the
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Spring Basics XML Setter Injection With Custom Method Names
Let’s have a look at how to inject beans using setters with a custom method name.
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Spring Basics Wiring Beans With Xml Configuration
If you have to work with legacy Spring applications, chances are you will have to know how XML-based configuration works. Although Java configuration is preferred for new applications, sometimes you just don’t have a choice, so you’d better be comfortable with it.
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Quick Vim Tip: Change Text Between White Space
private List<String> strings;
When the cursor is on the
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ofString
, useciW
to deleteList<String>
and start insert. Obviously, you can use any other command with that movement, for example yank the text (yiW
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Spring Basics Wiring and Injecting Beans With Java Configuration
For new projects, Java configuration is preferred over XML-based configuration. In this post, we’re going to look at how to configure Spring with configuration in Java, instead of the traditional XML.
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Use Vidir to Quickly Edit Filenames in Your Editor
If you have installed
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(see below), you can typevidir
to open up the current working directory in your$EDITOR
. You can use all the power of your editor to edit and/or delete filenames and directories. Editing a line will rename the file or directory, deleting a line will remove the file or directory. -
Use Pandoc With Pygments to Highlight Source Code
I am someone who has JavaScript disabled by default in his browser (I use uMatrix in Firefox for that). Only when I trust a site and I need to use functionality that truly depends on JavaScript will I turn it on. This hopefully protects me from most of the known and unknown bad stuff out there on the internet. It also makes me appreciate people who go through the trouble of making their webpages work without JavaScript.
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