Add SonarQube Analysis to Eclipse

If you have already embraced Continuous Inspection with Sonar/SonarQube, you may find it advantageous to do analysis of new or modified code within the IDE without having to wait for a new build/compile/analyze cycle. Additionally, it’s often faster to keep all of your required information within the IDE without having to also open a web browser.

You can easily add this capability:

  1. Help > Install New Software… > Add… > then enter:
  2. http://dist.sonar-ide.codehaus.org/eclipse/
  3. Restart Eclipse
  4. RightClick on project – Configure > Associate with SonarQube > chose project

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TV MAXE installation for Ubuntu

TV-MAXE is an application which provides the ability to watch TV stations and listen radio via different streams, like SopCast. Your ability to view certain streams may be limited by your current country, then again, you can always proxy through a country that will permit it.


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:venerix/pkg
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tv-maxe

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Eclipse compiler error when using sun.misc.Base64Encoder reference

I’ve recently been doing some work with code that is still running in a Java5 environment, to make matters worse, no new libraries can be added to the application. With these restrictions, I’ve had to resort to using only functions available in the standard installed JVM. The code relies on HTTP Basic authentication, and thus needs to use Base64 encoding.

The following classes were to be used…

import sun.misc.BASE64Encoder;
import sun.misc.BASE64Decoder;

Unfortunately, Eclipse did not like this and gave an error…

Access restriction: The type BASE64Decoder is not accessible due to restriction on required library C:\jdk1.5.0_22\jre\lib\rt.jar

Thankfully, this class (while not recommended, is in every build of the JVM that I have seen), you can tell Eclipse to only ‘Warning’ on it’s usage…

Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Compiler -> Error/Warnings.
Select Deprecated and Restricted API. Change it to warning.
Change Forbidden and Discouraged Reference and change it to Warning, or as needed.

BTW, I would normally rely on the commons-codec.jar for this functionality, and use org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64 for this purpose.

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Install Netflix on Ubuntu via Wine

UPDATE: (Sept. 2014) – Netflix will soon natively support Ubuntu, there are only a few small hurdles remaining, likely to be resolved by the NSS update expected in Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic). A workaround is available for the impatient… http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/08/netflix-linux-html5-support-plugins.

For various reasons primarily related to DRM, there is not a native Ubuntu/Linux viewer for Netflix… this is one of the cases where WINE can help you out by providing (not emulating) a Windows environment.

These commands are for the Ubuntu setup, similar steps for other Linux distributions are available in the references.

I’ve found that it is better to pre-install the Wine Gecko and Wine Mono packages on Ubuntu.


sudo apt-get install wine-gecko
sudo apt-get install wine-mono

Then…

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install netflix-desktop

If you’ve never used WINE before within your Ubuntu/Linux environment, you’ll likely need to let it download the extensions for Windows, I believe that it will request to download and install the Gecko and Mono packages described above, click "Yes" if asked and all should go well!

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