Tune-up (speed up) Eclipse

Tagged: Something Else Date: 12th, May 2009

Another note to self…
If your PC (mac or whatever crap u have there :P) has 1gb of ram use following flags when running eclipse:
-vmargs -Xms512m -Xmx512m -XX:PermSize=128m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m
If you have any more ram on your setup replace 512 with [amount of ram]/2 and 128 with [amount of ram]/4 and you will get decent results.
PS.
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Aptana (eclipse) YUI compressor

Tagged: JavaScript Date: 24th, February 2009

This post is mostly note to self… but some may find it useful.
For javascript compression, merging etc on Aptana (…eclipse…) use:
http://www.rockstarapps.com/joomla-1.5.8/products/downloads.html

Bash job queuing: Task Spooler

Tagged: Programming, Ubuntu Date: 9th, February 2009

Today I found nifty little tool for queuing bash jobs, Task Spooler.
Imagine you hava list of jobs that are dependant on each other.
First job converts video from one format to another, second job should trigger if first job was successful and do some status updating. This is exactly a thing Task Spooler will help you [...]

toGDImage() broken: Patching ffmpeg-php 0.6.0

Tagged: PHP, Programming, Ubuntu Date: 8th, February 2009

As fallow-up to previous post (link).

After toying with fresh ffmpeg-php 0.6.0 I kept getting error:
Fatal error: failed to convert frame to gd image

Problem lies in broken function _php_avframe_to_gd_image in ffmpeg_frame.c, in the base ffmpeg-php package.
To fix this problem download this patch file and apply it to ffmpeg_frame.c like so:

cd /path/to/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0/
wget http://hazaah.com/download/ffmpeg_frame.c.patch
patch -p0 ffmpeg_frame.c < ffmpeg_frame.c.patch

Reinstall [...]

How-to: FFmpeg, FFmpeg-PHP, Lame, Libogg, Libvorbis, FLVtool2, Mplayer, Mencoder, AMR

Tagged: Ubuntu Date: 8th, February 2009

This howto is written for Ubuntu 8.10 and is verified to work on 8.2.2009.
I found numerous tutorials on this subject out there but they all failed me, but combination of them all was successful. So fallowing is made from 10 different tutorials.
And for all those who will ask why not just apt-get php5-ffmpeg, answer is [...]