Java Classes Fun Fact

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError can be caused by runtime exception (i.e. NPE) in static initialization blocks or even variable initialization of class you are trying to use.

Reading outlook .msg files under Linux

Got an email in format unreadable for your mail reader?
I always forget that there is great tool for doing just that: http://code.google.com/p/ruby-msg/

Valgrind - "client switching stacks"

If you ever start to receiving following warning from Valgrind:

Warning: client switching stacks?

Followed by many error messages like "Invalid read/write" containing a note: "Address  is on thread 1's stack" then the cause is very simple. You are just allocating too large variables on stack - in my case I had too large array, as local variable, in one of functions. If you can't or don't want to use heap it is possible to tune valgrind with "--max-stackframe" parameter i.e.

valgrind --max-stackframe=10485760 ./a.out

This will prevent false positive detection  of stack switching up to 10MB.

One additional, much more obvious tip, use "-fno-inline" when building C++ binaries for use with valgrind, otherwise there won't be line numbers in stacktraces for any template functions.

Subversion not working under Netbeans on fresh linux system

Simple and annoying bug. Solution: 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1679099/netbeans-subversion-authentication-failed