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For those who’ve upgraded to Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka) in Linux and could not seem to find Java support, you can do the following to fix it up:

1. Verify that sun-java6-plugin is installed: sudo apt-get install sun-java6-plugin
2. Once verified/installed, look for libnpjp2.so: locate libnpjp2.so
   • You may have to do an updatedb first: sudo updatedb
   • Mine returns /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.15/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so
   • Take note of this path.
3. Then, navigate to your mozilla plugins path:cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
4. Move somewhere else or completely delete libjavaplugin.so
5. Make a symbolic link of the libnpjp2.so you find earlier to the current folder: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.15/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so . Take note of the dot at the end.
6. Restart Firefox
7. Test it over at the Java website

My references were the following site: Mozilla Forums and Java Webnotes
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From now on, I’ll try posting Firefox related posts every Friday. This was an idea brought up at the Mozilla Philippines Community 2010 Kick-off meeting.

Pressing Print Screen in GNOME captures a screenshot of, well, the whole screen. (I’m assuming the same works for KDE too.)

What if you just want to capture a certain window or a certain area?
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September 26, 2009 — Despite my still recovering stomach and the windy (and rainy) weather, we set out to go to Adamson University for the 3-hour (gasp!) long seminar. We were able to arrive, just in time for the 8:30 start in the morning. We did not begin right away though. We waited for one of our companion speakers before we began. Turned out that he realized that he left his USB (read: his slides) when he was half-way to his way to Adamson. He then had to go back and get his slides, and then travel again back to Adamson. By the time he got in, it was already 9:30 (and I already got to eat my breakfast, yey!). We then started with our talks in our respective classrooms. We’re covering Zembly, JavaFX and Linux. Another speaker that we did not know will be discussing SAP.

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Last September 8, we attended the DevCon at Y4IT. It is a mini-event, hosted by PSIA and G2IX.

What is DevCon?
From the site:

DEVCON is designed to be a premier gathering of all Filipino software engineers. [...] to encourage collaboration, interaction, and mentoring among the leading practitioners of the Philippine Software Industry. DEVCON adapts the global best practices for skills improvement and professional advancement among Filipino software engineers.

The template that they wanted people to adapt consisted of Birds of a feather, Lightning talks and a Hackathon.

Lightning talks
Lightning talks are, as the name implies, talks that are spontaneous (or at least are supposed to be) and could be about any topic that is related to technology. Ideally, they’re supposed to last no more than 5 minutes (or was it 10?) to discuss a topic.

Birds of a Feather
Birds of a feather is a discussion, or a debate if you will, about opposing views regarding technology. It serves as a way for common, and uncommon, points and counter-points to come up. This way, it gives the audience a more rounded view on the issue being discussed.

Hackathon
A portmanteau of “hacking” and “marathon”, Hackathon is basically a coding-session. This part was not implemented at this particular DevCon due to time constraints.

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