Free alternative to XML Spy

Professionally I'm sometimes faced with the challenge of being assigned a task, without having the adequate tools to perform it. An example of that is working with XML files.

Not having acquired a commercial software like XML Spy, I had to find a free alternative. To open XML files, pretty-print them and check for issues, I adopted XML Copy Editor:



XML Copy Editor is a free editor that enables you to:

• open XML files
• edit your own XML
• check if the XML is well formed
• check the XML for compliance with a given schema

Additionally it also performs advanced user operations like syntax highlighting and XPath evaluations. Overall, XML Copy Editor performs all the tasks necessary for XML analysis.

Delete Blogger pictures from Picasa

Before this one, I had a couple of blogs hosted on Blogger. The pictures I used on the blogs posts were uploaded into Picasa Web Albums.

Having deleted thos blogs I no longer need the pictures, but the delete option was disabled.

The solution to delete an album associated with a blog is to first delete all the pictures on it, and then delete the album.

You don't need to delete a picture at once. If you select the option "Edit > Reorganize & Reorder", you can select all pictures and delete them.

HTH y'all!

Netbeans and Glassfish Error: CLI130 Could not create domain

Having Netbeans 6.8 installed, with Glassfish V3 on a laptop running Windows 7, I had the following error upon starting the IDE:

CLI130 Could not create domain

Apparently, the J2EE development server domain could not be created. I opened a command prompt, navigated   to the Glassfish installation folder and executed the "asaadmin create-domain" to create a new domain. Still no luck! A lack of privileges prevented the new domain folder creation.

Next, I repeated the same step, but opened the prompt with the "Run as administrator" option. The domain creation went smoothly and after starting the IDE, the same error appeared because it would always try to start the default domain.

I carried on, manually starting my domain with the "asadmin start-domain" command and connecting to the server as if it was a remote server. But I was not pleased with the solution.

So, I tried to start the IDE with "Run as Administrator" option. And it worked. After all, it had a really simple work around.

Migrating from Wordpress to Blogger

As you might know, if you were following my blog on the previous address, I've migrated it from Wordpress to Blogger. The reason for doing so is just that Blogger let's you control the page's content with a finer grain, even write raw HTML it you want to.

I managed to get all my posts from Wordpress and import them to blogger. The problem at hand with that is Blogger only supports file exported from another Blogger hosted blog.

The solution I found was as follows:

1. Export all the posts from the previous site, hosted on Wordpress, to a file in the WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR) format. You can do this going to "Tools > Export" on your Wordpress dashboard.
2. Next I found this tool, called Wordpress2Blogger, uploaded my WXR file and downloaded a new file, this one on the Blogger RSS format.
3. Finally, I imported the given file into Blogger, using the available import option,

With three simple steps, not counting the new blog account registration, the migration is successful.