Java 8 in Eclipse (Kepler and Luna)

Java 8 is officially available since a couple of days. It was released on March 18th this year. Yeah! But - Eclipse, the biggest and most popular Java IDE is a little bit behind the schedule (at least IMHO). There is no official Eclipse version for Java 8 right now!

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3 ways of installing Oracle XE 11g on Ubuntu

During the last few days I struggled with installing Oracle XE 11g on an Ubuntu VM. And with “the last few days” I mean “the last few weeks”. Sad, but true. Here is what I learned about installing Oracle XE 11g on Ubuntu. But please note that I am not a Linux specialist nor an Oracle specialist - it was my first try. And as you will see, I try to make my life as easy as possible. But let’s start with the very basics.

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Show next image by clicking images in NextGEN Gallery V2.0.40

Last year I posted two modifications for the Wordpress plugin NextGen Gallery and its Thickbox and Shutter effect (here is the old one for Thickbox and the old one for Shutter). The modification makes it possible to click on the current image to go forward to the next image. To close the slideshow you can just click somewhere beneath the image. This is the same behavior as on many popular website such as Facebook.

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