How to fix Nexus One sd card corruption using linux

Every now and then a forced shutdown of my Nexus One phone leaves me with a corrupted sd card. To fix this using Linux (I use Ubuntu 12.04): Connect the card using a card reader to your linux machine. Type

df

to see the device name of your sdcard. For me it is /dev/sdc1. Then

sudo umount /dev/sdc1
dosfsck -a /dev/sdc1

Job done, remove the card and try it in your phone. Note that

fsck -a /dev/sdc1

has never fixed my problem. I had to use dosfsck.

Sonar and Maven with an overriden derby port

The Sonar server uses a derby database by default that listens on port 1527. This conflicted with another process on our server so we edited the conf/sonar.properties file and set the properties sonar.jdbc.url and sonar.derby.drda.portNumber to use say 1528 instead. Uncomment the sonar.derby.drda.host parameter to allow remote connections. Restart sonar.

To run the maven sonar plugin on a project is simple, you don't even need a reference to it in the pom.xml.

mvn sonar:sonar

However, the sonar maven plugin needs to know where the server is and also the jdbc url for the server (I guess it interacts directly with the sonar database). So add two properties to your pom.xml (we added it to our parent pom.xml so all child projects would inherit it):

<properties>
  <sonar.host.url>http://YOUR_SERVER:9000</sonar.host.url>
  <sonar.jdbc.url>jdbc:derby://localhost:1528/sonar</sonar.jdbc.url> 
</properties>

Using scala on android with maven

If you want to deploy an application written in Scala to the android platform then use this sample project to do the whole thing using maven plugins (although you still need a separate download of the Android SDK):

svn checkout http://moten-util.googlecode.com/svn/android-scala-sample android-scala-sample

You need the ANDROID_HOME environment variable to use the maven-android-plugin. On my machine this is

ANDROID_HOME='/opt/android/android-sdk-linux_x86'

cd to the android-scala-sample directory and type

mvn clean package

This will compile and test the scala source and build an android binary using ProGuard to strip out unused classes (needed to remove the bulk of the scala dependency).

If you have the emulator running then deploy to the emulator with

mvn android:deploy

This sample app is just a hello world app for you to modify as you like.

Pipe to clipboard in bash on ubuntu

Say you wanted the output of a command like ls to be copied directly into the clipboard for pasting into your gui windows. Use xclip:

sudo apt-get install xclip

Then

ls | xclip -selection clipboard

will copy the output of ls into the clipboard.

I use an alias in my .bashrc for it:

alias c='xclip -selection clipboard'

So the command becomes:

ls | c

Quickly changing your .bashrc file

I use aliases all the time and am always adding more shortcuts for my terminal experience to the .bashrc file. So it's only natural that I made a convenient alias for doing exactly that.

Add this line to your .bashrc file:

alias vib='vi ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc'

Then type source ~/.bashrc and the change will have been made.

So whenever you want to change your .bashrc file and have it come into effect for the current terminal:

vib

which will edit .bashrc and will run source on it automatically when you finish editing.

Maven site and multi-module broken links on site:stage

Maven 2.2.1 default site plugin does a strange job of making parent to child links for a multimodule site report. When I have the parent reporting url set to a file:// url the links are broken after doing a site:stage. There is an easy workaround though. Make the reporting url a property in the parent pom.xml, say ${site.url} and from parent directory call

mvn clean site site:deploy -Dsite.url=file://`pwd`/target/deployed-site

This will deploy the site into target/deployed-site. Note that the url must be absolute, that's why I use `pwd` to insert the current directory (not for windoze of course). Put whatever url you like in site.url if the above does not suit.

IMDB Lookup from Nautilus in Ubuntu

This is how you implement a Lookup IMDB right click menu action for a movie file visible in Nautilus. It's really easy using Nautilus Actions!

First install nautilus-actions

sudo apt-get install nautilus-actions

Now create the script to launch the browser given a filename.

sudo wget -N -P /usr/bin http://moten-util.googlecode.com/svn/ubuntu/trunk/lookup-imdb/lookup-imdb
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/lookup-imdb

Choose System - Preferences - Nautilus Actions Configuration - Add.
Set values in Action tab as below

Label: Lookup IMDB
Path: lookup-imdb
Parameters: %b

Logout and back in again and you should be ready to go.

Note: if you find that your default browser is not being opened by the x-www-browser command then select your default browser by

sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

As of 5 May 2013 this works fine in Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity.