Radu Cotescu's blog

Because all this week I have been a steady bug fixer (both at home and at work), this comic really rocks given the circumstances:

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I wrote a small script that will help you install VMware Server 2.0.1 (build 156745) on Ubuntu 9.04 and later without any efforts. The install script needs a patch file for this VMWare Server version that is automatically downloaded from my server.

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soapUI is a pretty useful web service testing tool that can help you generate a multitude of tests like load testing, functional testing, data consistency testing and many more. I have started using it for real two days ago when I needed to test some SOAP web services for work. The main issue that kept [...]

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I am currently running Ubuntu 9.04 on two machines (as the single OS on my personal laptop and dual boot with Windows on my work desktop) and I will soon (by Sunday tops) have it installed on a third (my home desktop). This is probably my largest Ubuntu deployment, if I can call it like [...]

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I have recently discovered Python and by recently I mean a few months (3 and a half). The discovery has been made after I was supposed to do a web application for a course at my faculty and it has been based on the fact that I wanted another programming language that would do the [...]

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Chuck Norris serializes objects straight into human skulls.
Chuck Norris doesn’t deploy web applications, he roundhouse kicks them into the server.
Chuck Norris always uses his own design patterns and his favorite is the Roundhouse Kick.
Chuck Norris could use anything in java.util.* to kill you, including the javadocs.
Chuck Norris can hit you so hard your web app [...]

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