Convert images to pdf and back

Today I found out a simple and flexible tool which converts images to pdf and vice versa - convert. It was already built in my Fedora 21.

Example:

Let's say I have 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg files. To convert them into a single result.pdf run the following command:

$ convert 1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg result.pdf

or

$ convert {1..3}.jpg result.pdf

Now I want to get my images back from the result.pdf:

$ convert -density 300 result.pdf image.jpg

where "-density 300" is a precision in points per inch. Each pdf page will be converted into a separate image.

convert supports a lot of different flags and options. To learn more about it:

$ man convert

or

Click here.

log4j2: line separator in header's parameter of PatternLayout

Log4j2 provides a new parameter for PatternLayout:

Parameter name: header
Type: String
Description: the optional header string to include at the top of each log file

With the following log4j2.xml configuration:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Configuration status="WARN" monitorInterval="20"> <Appenders> <RollingRandomAccessFile name="file" fileName="logs/app.log" filePattern="logs/app-%d_%i.log.gz"> <PatternLayout> <header> Version: ${env:APP_RELEASE_VERSION} </header> <pattern>%message%n</pattern> </PatternLayout> <Policies> <OnStartupTriggeringPolicy/> </Policies> </RollingRandomAccessFile> </Appenders> <Loggers> <Root level="debug"> <AppenderRef ref="file"/> </Root> </Loggers> </Configuration>

Git: undo the last rebase

$ git reflog

f0d821f HEAD@{0}: commit_a
2ea24f8 HEAD@{1}: commit_b
0c3cd49 HEAD@{2}: commit_c
de5b02a HEAD@{3}: commit_d

Suppose that "commit_c" was the head commit of the branch just before the rebase. Let's reset the current branch to this commit:

$ git reset --hard HEAD@{2}

Playing with vim configuration for C++

What I got as a result:

The main features:

• embedded file system explorer
• syntax highlighting
• hotkeys for compiling/running C++ code

Netty server is incompatible with ObjectOutputStream on the client side

Recently I faced with the following problem while playing with Netty:

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io.netty.handler.codec.TooLongFrameException: Adjusted frame length exceeds 1048576: 2901213193 - discarded at io.netty.handler.codec.LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoder.fail(LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoder.java:493) at io.netty.handler.codec.LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoder.failIfNecessary(LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoder.java:469) at io.netty.handler.codec.LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoder.decode(LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoder.java:404) at io.netty.handler.codec.serialization.ObjectDecoder.decode(ObjectDecoder.java:68) at io.netty.handler.codec.LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoder.decode(LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoder.java:351) at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.callDecode(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:231) at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:131) at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(DefaultChannelHandlerContext.java:372) at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(DefaultChannelHandlerContext.java:357) at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireChannelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:780) at io.netty.channel.nio.AbstractNioByteChannel$NioByteUnsafe.read(AbstractNioByteChannel.java:99) at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKey(NioEventLoop.java:497) at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeysOptimized(NioEventLoop.java:465) at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:359) at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$2.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:101) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

How to insert code blocks in Blogger posts

I didn’t find any setting which would allow me to insert code blocks in Blogger posts but I managed to overcome this problem.

Here’re two simple and handy online converters of code to html:

markup
pros: language auto-detection, small html in the output
cons: no line numbers support, no horizontal scrolling
styles I liked: Slush & Poppies, iPlastic

hilite.me
pros: line numbers support, horizontal scrolling in case of long lines
cons: big html in the output
styles I liked: friendly, default, colorful
CSS I used: border:none;

Let’s say we have the following piece of code which is desirable to insert as a code block:

public class RowSocketClient {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        String host = "localhost";
        int port = 4446;

        try (Socket socket = new Socket(host, port);
                ObjectOutputStream out
                    = new ObjectOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream())) {
            out.writeObject("ping");
        }
    }
}

Useful installations for Fedora to keep in mind

Creating a bootable USB

$ sudo dd if=/path/to/Fedora-Live-xxx.iso of=/dev/sdc

where sdc can be found by inserting the usb drive and executing:

$ dmesg | tail

yum plugin which helps to choose the fastest mirrors

$ sudo yum install yum-plugin-fastestmirror

RPM fusion reposetories

# su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'

Codecs

$ sudo yum install gstreamer1-libav gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-extras gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld gstreamer1-plugins-good-extras gstreamer1-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg xine-lib-extras xine-lib-extras-freeworld k3b-extras-freeworld gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg

E-book management tool

$ sudo yum install calibre

UI package manager

$ sudo yum install yumex

Nvidia Optimus (Bumblebee installation)

Visit: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bumblebee

Move applications in tray to the top bar

Install TopIcons Gnome Extension

Hash mark in git commit message

 From the git commit message:

# Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
# with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit.

So, if you want to use a hash mark '#' in the commit message (E.g.: "#77 - fixed by changing user's permissions") use the following form of commit:

git commit --cleanup=whitespace

NOTE: don't forget to remove other unnecessary lines which start with '#' otherwise they will be added to the commit message as well