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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
I will show you how to enable logging in the MongoDB Java driver and also how to set and change the log level. The official mongoDB Java driver uses java.util.logging as its default logging framework or sl4j if the latter is present. It can be very useful to enable logging in the MongoDB drivers to […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
A quick follow-up to my last post where I was experimenting with running emacsclient from an ansi-term running in the main Emacs. Interestingly, you can run Emacs in text mode within an ansi-term, just not emacsclient: Yes, the whole thing got a little recursive. Yes, it’s a little silly, and yes, I’m one of those […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
I’m experimenting with screen recordings at the moment and just out of curiosity decided to see if I can load and edit a text file inside the main Emacs process from inside an ansi-term using emacsclient. Spoiler alert – yes, you can. At least the way it is set up on my system, emacsclient doesn’t […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
I’ve had the Linux Subsystem for Windows enabled for quite a while during the time it was in Beta. With the release of the Fall Creators Update, I ended up redoing my setup from scratch. As usual I grabbed Emacs and a bunch of other packages and was initially disappointed that I was looking at […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
The Software Engineering Radio podcast has just published an episode with an interview with Ron Lichty. It is well worth a listen if you’re thinking about moving from development into management or already are amongst the development managers. Unfortunately there is only so much that can be packed into an hour’s worth of a podcast, […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
In an earlier post, I described how to install the latest version of the Oracle Java JDK using homebrew. What hadn’t been completely obvious to me when I wrote the original blog post is that the ‘java’ cask will install the latest major version of the JDK. As a result, when I upgraded my JDK […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
Emacs 25.3 was released on Monday. Given that it’s a security fix I’m downloading the source as I write this. If you’re using the latest Emacs I’d recommend you update your Emacs. The vulnerability as been around since Emacs 19.29, you probably want to upgrade anyway. Build instructions for Ubuntu and friends are the same […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
Trying to export you Wordpress blog to Jekyll? Here's how to get rid of the pesky UTF-8 special character codes.
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
I haven’t done much with Ubuntu recently, but had to set up a laptop with XUbuntu 17.04. That came with Emacs 24.5 as the default emacs package, and as skeeto pointed out in the comments, with a separate emacs25 package for Emacs 25.1. I tend to run the latest release Emacs everywhere out of habit, […]
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Timo Geusch from The Lone C++ Coder's Blog
This is a post I wrote several years ago and it’s been languishing in my drafts folder ever since. I’m not working on this particular codebase any more. That said, the problems caused by using Java-like getter and setter functions as the sole interface to an object in the context described in the post have […]
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