Terminator is a tool to arrange multiple terminals in a single window, structured on a customizable grid. When I started using Terminator on Ubuntu, I missed two key features that I had with Guake: an hide/show shortcut, and the possibility to hide its icon from the alt-tab list of running applications.

Last update: Monday, October 19, 2015. This is a list of some available lexicons and corpora for Sentiment Analysis (also called Opinion Mining). Il will try to keep this list updated as much as possible. Have fun!

Model-driven architecture (MDA) essentially represents a different approach to programming and software development, intended to provide an abstract structure in the realization of those tasks that are usually accomplished by (more or less hardcore) manual coding. Ideally, a model driven approach is supposed to provide an easy-to-follow guideline which can improve code reusability while shortening development times. But can it really be thought as a real substitute for old-style coding? I don’t think so, yet I think that MDA approach can anyway represent a precious ally for programmers.

The almost new Eclipse Kepler IDE has been released with a new exciting bug for those who use Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander). If you're among those lucky developers, when you'll open your IDE you'll find that Eclipse upper menu is pretty useless, since clicking on menu entries nothing will happen: no submenus will show up as you expected. So, what to do if Eclipse menu doesn't show up in Ubuntu 13.10? The best solution at the moment (until someone decides to fix this bug) is the following.

Date formatting could be an annoying problem when dealing with your views. I wrote an article about it when I was facing Json problems (see How To format dates in Json within Spring 3) but, as you may know, even if you don't need to use Json in your views, you'll probably have to face some troubles with date formats. Sometimes you can avoid all your problems simply using the specific JSTL fmt in your jsp (see references). But what to do if you can't use JSTL in your jsp, or if a simple JSTL won't solve your problems?

This post could be simply read as a revisitation of the one in which I explained How To format dates in Json within Spring 3. But since the problem to solve is different, I think it could be useful to write a new guide about it, even if the mechanics are quite the same.