Monday Apr 06, 2009

... message to all NetBeans users : Thank You !

I've got last results from our usage statistics and final number is over 650,000 active NetBeans users (Mar 2009) ...

... it's 50% more than a year ago (Mar 2008).


Below are statistics for the top fifteen countries over the past twelve months regardless of product version:
... countries : Comoros, Mayotte, Guinea-Bissau are on the bottom of the list with 1 active user each ;).

Posted at 10:00AM Apr 06, 2009 by marian in NetBeans  |  Comments[9]

Tuesday Feb 17, 2009

How-to get English results from Firefox Google search

Ubuntu 8.10 / Firefox 3.0.X

I used to use Google for searching on the Internet. Once I started to use Firefox I found Google Search plugin very handful, but because I am working in big company our connection to Internet goes through proxies and so on, so in despite I do not understand German either live there, any attempt to use Google Search engine in Firefox ends with the list of German links. So I looked around for solution and because you may face the same problem, I would share with you possible solution :

Open /usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/google.xml 

<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.com/search">
  <Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>
  <Param name="ie" value="utf-8"/>
  <Param name="oe" value="utf-8"/>
  <Param name="aq" value="t"/>
  <Param name="rls" value="{moz:distributionID}:{moz:locale}:{moz:official}"/>
  <MozParam name="client" condition="defaultEngine" trueValue="firefox-a" falseValue="firefox"/>
</Url>

Add these parameters:

  • <Param name="hl" value="en"/>... this displays interface in English (hl = language of the interface)
  • <Param name="lr" value="lang_en"/>...this returns English results (lr= language of results)

Don't forget to backup your google.xml, I found this file modified after some updates of Firefox.

Posted at 03:32PM Feb 17, 2009 by marian in how-to  |  Comments[0]

Tuesday Feb 28, 2006

Who Am I?

I am not a woman ;)

First of all I should say my name is Marian. This name is known almost only as a woman's one in a lot of English-speaking countries, but I am sure I am a man ;) .

Sun & Me, or Me & Sun

We both meet few years ago. My first contact with Sun Microsystems was 8 years ago, when I started my diploma work I used Java version 1.2. I moved to Prague in 2000 and started at Sun Microsystems as NetBeans Quality Assurance Engineer. It was wonderful time: free breakfast/dinner/drinks in office,parties more often than work, everybody were smiling, Sun was shining and the stock price was very high, what a pity it was long time ago.

Career at Sun

I started at Sun as regular QA team member, after a hard time when people were leaving Sun(willingly or not) I moved to my current position: team-leader of Core/Platform Quality Assurance. I am also a member of NetBeans Performance team.

Slovakia

This is difficult to explain to people, those know just their “great country”, but I'll try ...
I was born in Czechoslovakia. This country peacefully split into two countries in 1993: The Czech Republic and Slovakia. I am Slovak, but I am temporary living in Prague (The Czech Republic). Just a note: both countries are located in Central Europe.

Posted at 12:00PM Feb 28, 2006 by marian in Personal  |  Comments[3]