Windows CMD Redirect Error And Standard Stream To File

To redirect error and standard stream of a program to a file, use the following in Windows cmd shell: prog args > file.log 2>&1.

Java IDEs Jgrasp Eclipse

I had a play with two Java IDEs recently: Jgrasp and Eclipse. For a developer, Jgrasp was small and worked reasonably well. Since I was trying to fix someone else's code, I wished Jgrasp had more features and shortcut keys for debugging. Eclipse is huge but I like the way it automatically parsed my source code to find errors and warnings.

New Blogger Interface

I migrated my blog to the new Blogger interface. Since I had a Google account, now I have one less username-password combination to remember. One nice new feature: labels. Now I don't have to put keywords in the title of each blog entry just for categorising blog entries. It's a Google-ish feature and works like labels in Google Mail.

Misc: Saving A Minute A Day

We used to have a slow login start script that would take a minute or more to map remote drives and printers to our workstations. The script was over-complicated and no longer maintained, so I asked our IT person to write us a much a shorter and simpler one. The resulting script now takes one or two seconds to run. For 10 staff, saving that one minute a day is worth up to one man-week a year (1 minute * 10 * 240 working days)!