Helper Apps

Al Salamu 3alykom Wa Ra7matULLAH Wa Barakato

here are some apps i frequently use which does help daily lowering the number of my clicks and buttons pressing

1. AutoKey

this App. lets u assign shortcuts to some text, as i always write “:SA” and it replaces it automatically with “Al Salamu 3alykom Wa Ra7matULLAH Wa Barakato”

and u can add shortcuts as much as u want, and it replaces text anywhere u r using the shortcut

note. this is a Linux App that already exist in the repository, for windows there was an App called Texter

with ubuntu [it has been a long time]

eight months since i had installed my running Ubuntu, it has been upgraded from Interpid (8.10)  to Jaunty (9.04)

Coders who don’t code

Today was my first day at work, in a company called Andaulsia Healthcare Business Solutions  “AHBS” in my beloved Alex.

kind of i was surprised by the coding approach used there, it’s simply “No Coding”

Hidden Options [2]

after  Hidden Options

here is the second post with the hidden options i’ve been collecting since then…

1-On Windows

• Ctrl+C

some times you need to copy the contents of a message box and the text is unselectable

just press Ctrl+C when this message box is in focus and all it’s contents will be copied

Thanx to Roaa “The Undocumented Feature”

Troubleshooting in ACM-ICPC Contest

i’ve participated in many contests as organizer, specifically in the technical stuff which is mainly two portions

• The IDE which is mainly “eclipse“
• The contest communication tool which can’t be except “pc2″

and in the last contest i’ve participated in it’s technical preparations i faced a number of troubles

lets take them one by one

1.Teams don’t connect to the Server which is a Linux Machine

• Solution : before you open the server edit the “pc2server” file and edit this line
• java -Djava.security.policy=policy.ini $PC2CN $*
• to be
• java -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=”10.106.0.35″ -Djava.security.policy=policy.ini $PC2CN $*
• of course change the ip according to your server ip

and make this edit in all the executables you will run {team, board, judge…..}