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Why I don't like playing nowdays games ? The main problem I find in nowdays games is the flood of games all around me, there are so many which make them not special and forgetful. The other day I installed a Raspberry pie with several emulators then downloaded several gigas of games, then scanned all of them to find the graphics for each game as well as the other meta data, after the whole process, I played the machine several times then I forgot about it. There were just too many games on several platforms that nothing stuck. There is nothing like having my favorite cartridges with me, those nice plastic blocks which I pop into my machine and play the game till the batteries die. When you have a flood of games you play the first one, then after a short time you go to a second one, then rush to the next, never fully enjoying or even remembering its name. And so I find myself coming back to my old stock of gameboy games. Which brings me to my next question, which ninten...

In the last years Spring MVC has quickly lost ground to it's younger brother - SpringBoot. The major changes are incode annotations instead of XML configurations , as well as embedding an internal application server instead of creating a war which you can throw into an existing external application server (like tomcat). - So it still will use tomcat, it will just be an embedded-internal one. As I see it those are the main advantages. So after migrating my own Spring mvc application to be a Springboot one, here are my notes. All I needed was the embedded server - the migration did the job and I am highly satisfied as I don't need to install/maintain another part of the system (the tomcat server), which is very good as now my application has one less complexity . Now instead of creating a war file, I create (Maven) a Jar file and run in using java -jar The migration was easier than I thought ! Everything runs faster now - the tomcat is somehow more optimized which i...

You got an old computer to revive ? Use the following steps to get the maximum from it: Hardware Cleaning (dust) Open the computer cover and use a vacuum cleaner, leaf blower or just blow hard with your own mouth all over the internals to make sure that as much dust gets off the computer (suggesting doing this procedure outside) Fans oiling After all dust is gone, it is time to oil the fans, get your favorite oiling spray (wd40 is my suggestion) and oil the joints of the fans you will find in the computer. Make several spins of the fans while the oil is trickling into them to make sure they get oiled right. [If after starting the computer and letting it run for several hours it seems there is a fan that doesn't start - replace it] Formatting & Installing windows (Optional) If you get to the conclusion that you want to format this computer (make sure you have a windows license handy), then the following steps will be unneeded. In this case, I suggest using ...

fMan is the best file manager out there. But as one of its best features is minimalism, some configurations are in order to make it more suitable to my needs. So lets begin tweaking fMan to be the best file manager for my needs. Install fMan Install Search Functionality Ctrl+Shift+P will bring up the command palette, "install a plugin" Install plugin: Search Now you can search for any specific file from inside fMan by clicking CTRL+f7 (or command palette and search for "search"). Install Preview Functionality Install plugin: Preview (This enables previewing any file using f3) For the preview to work, you need to install a 3rd party previewer, so install QuickLook Now click on any file with the f3 key When asked for a preview utility, point it to: %localappdata%\Programs\QuickLook\QuickLook.exe Enjoy this quick and amazing preview functionality (better than any other around), you can preview ANY file, be it a compressed file, exe, text...

As a general thumb of rule, I suggest installing the minimal number of applications on your windows system, if you are not sure you need it just don't install it. The logic behind my above rule of thumb is that the more applications you have the more your windows system becomes/might become unstable and the more your registry becomes cluttered etc, windows has a very generous set of tools by default, so you might need to add just a minimal set of your own tools if that. That being said, a good application can save you a lot of time and work, so those which are needed I encourage you to install, thus I am writing this blog post to introduce you to my minimal set of tools which make my life so much easier. Each one of the tools I will write about deserves its own post comparing it to the competition, but this post will only focus on a list (with some descriptions) of the tools. Must Have As a file manager I suggest using fman , that is only if you work strongly on files al...

A good profiler can really help you in your work while coding Java (I assume while coding any coding language but I am referring to Java here) It can find memory leaks (Which object and how many of it takes the most of your limited memory?), CPU bottlenecks and other surprising data like the time consumed by each network call / DB query etc. Thus it is not so surprising to find many different java profilers around. I will try to map here the Java profiling tools lying around My short list of requirements will include the following: Profiler Requirements Constantly updated profiler (how a profiler built to profile Java6 will behave with Java11?) Clear GUI - As I will want to dive into the profiling data - it will be much simpler using UI Free (With a big advantage to the open sourced ones) (Optional) Remote profiling List of Profilers Dead Profilers (At least 5 years without an update) JIP - Java Interactive Profiler  - Last update 2010 Profiler4J - Last U...

What is a file manager ? A file manager is an application which manages files mainly by doing simple file functionality like copy/move/delete/rename etc. The functionality of a file manager can broaden to many other file-related aspects like a graphic tree of your local hard drive, comparison of directories, edit/view of files, pack/unpack and many more functions. The main look of a file manager will be a two-pane frame in which you can see two different directories at a glance, while performing functions related to the right pane, left pane or both (like copying a file from the left pane to the right). There are many modern file managers (a lot of file managers exist today) most have the basic functionality I mentioned earlier, and each one has its own flavor, adding functionality by using a plugin system or having the special functionality at the core level of the file manager. Why people used them in the past ? In the past (I am talking about the DOS era 1980-1997), a...