Gigu’s blog

It’s 11:30pm and someone would think that night will bring some sort of relief.

Nothing like that happened. Still bloody hot. Clothes stick to me and I think I look like wet-shirt miss.

I wanted to update blog with some new dev stuff but I can’t focus my mind on anything else than just stay cool. I pour water on my bold skull every half an hour. Thoughts about tomorrow job journey are awful. London underground and silverlink train is just crap.

But …

There will be rain after all, sooner or later, I hope sooner then later ?

Stay COOL and Chilled down, gimme-some-rain Greg

I just got new Tamron Lens to my Canon. It’s really cool. I was running around and taking some pictures.

The lens I bought it’s special line of Tamrons lens. I know it’s not Canon but still results are not so bad.

It’s 55-200 mm LD DI II telephoto Macro lens. It’s special design for Digital SLR only makes this lens work like traditional 85-300 mm one. Because SLR CMOS sensor is much smaller then traditional film frame Tamron made this trick possible, and it’s coming at you straight when you start shootking pictures.

Anyway, checkout my test drive …

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This weekend in Bedford took place 2006 Bedford Summer Festival. I was there with my lovely Wife and my camera. I have taken some pictures but I’m not very happy with them.

Anyway here you can see two of them that I like a little bit more.

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Hm … i just rememmbered that I haven’t told you folks why I have Reviewmirron text on my picture.

I have made myself picture in mirror and was thinking about cool name for it. Turned out that one thing always was with me through my whole life, Pearl Jam music. One of their song is called “Reviewmirror“. Song comes from second album VS and it’s one of the best ever ROCK SONGS. IT KICKS ASS, just like Pearl Jam are !!!!

Stay focus, Greg-or

Just got my hends on “My Chemical Romance” band. First song i heard was “The Gost of You” that sounds like nice rock ballad. I was thinking, hm … what the hell, I’ll give it a try. So … as any nerd will do, I have downloaded 2 albums (because it looks like they have recorder that much so far).

• in 2002 they kicked off with “‘I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love.”
• and 2006 release “Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge“

The bend really rocks. You can get the impression on first album that they were undecided what kind of rockthey won’t to play. Sometimes it sounds punk-rock sometimes hevy. Vocal is a big SCREEMER so at other hend I got feeling I’m lesening to Linkin Park. Final effect is not bad. But … if you like lot of screeming no melody and fast punk-rock beat … you get a lot of it.

Second album already starts much better. More melody. “Helena” opening song is really cool. Even fast songs are kind melody, comepletelly different then first album. Probably they learned how to play instruments, and VOCAL DUDE learned how to sing

Anyway, might be worth checking out second album “Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge”, especially if you like nice melody rock songs that are kicking

Official web site: http://www.mychemicalromance.com/

Cheerios, Greg-ster

I was struggeling today at work with something.

We have quite hight security level at work and internal network is completelly seald from outside world. We have webservice that we’r using for dev test. I was trying to run a test, just to call simple method on remote WebService but … it turned out that I can’t couse test machine is behind firewall that will not allow anything in or out. Hm…

Good thing we got proxy. But hot to set up this damn thing. Turned out simple after a long time of google digging.

I am running my JUnit test either from maven (when building deployment) or from Eclipse (that I’m using for development). To set it up within Eclipse when I run my test I need to open Run menu and go to Argument tab.

There are two big fields for arguments. I was using JVM argumens.

It looked like this:

-Dhttp.proxyHost=blabla.proxy.host -Dhttp.proxyPort=80

That solved problem.

I do have other proxy that needs user and password and … I got no idea how to set these properties up. Maybe someone can share. http.proxyUser and http.proxyPass don’t work.

Hope this little tip will help someone with same problem.

Ass my Father always say: “Learn from someone else mistakes”

All best, Gigu

Hello World.

Quite simple and stupid This is the first working program, application or whatever, that is presented to someone who learns new programming lenguage or programming technics. I think this is kind of good start.

This blog idea is to write things about software development, photography, music, stuff and all that metters or not. I hope that it’ll make people think, increase brain usage and even provoke to post comment or just type their thoughts.

I’m Polish but blog will be in English. I have lot’s of polish friends that speak english and none english that speak polish. That is one of reason. Second is that I will improve my written english.

That’s it for today. First blog entry. Stay tooned for more.

Cheers, Gigu