How to add a single file to an existed GitHub repository

So today, after finishing the required editing about my forthcoming published tutorial on JCG, I wanted to push the final compressed project in the corresponding GitHub repository.

Here is a full guide of how he do something like this:

• Firstly, locate Git Shell to the directory of the local repository
• Ensure that you have the right "version" of the remote repository by pulling it: git pull
• Add the file that you wish to push: git add [filename]
• Commit changes (it is recommended to also submit a commit message, something that can be done with the -m parameter): git commit -m "your commit message"
• Push changes to the remote repository: git push

And here's a full screenshot of my effort - yes, you did make it clear; I made a mistake (tried to push without having my repo pulled first) just to demonstrate how helpful is the error handling provided from the shell.

And a personal statement: Finally, I have to admit that learning Git wasn't a pain at all.

How to fix Java heap space error in Maven

So you want to build a maven project but you 're getting an error like this : java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space.

What the output says is that you have to define a MAVEN_OPTS environment variable, where you can place your -Xmx and -XX:MaxPermSize memory parameters.

What are you staring at? Go for it!

Right click on My Computer and select Properties

Click Advanced System Settings on the left

Go to the Advanced tab, click the Environment Variables

Create a New user variable, under the name of to MAVEN_OPTS and set the Variable value to what the error specified or whatever you need to get it build successfully.

Here's a sample configuration :

JSF projects available on GitHub

I found myself today having a lot of desire to contribute to community, although I needed a lot of rest, so here is my latest commit to my github account : JSF 2.2 projects .

I know, all of us would prefer the full sources of it, but keeping in mind my full schedule this period, it's the best I could do.

How to export Eclipse project as a .zip file

Hi there!

After a pretty exhausting day at work, I thought why not updating a little bit my blog with a post that someone could find useful?

I got inspiration while writing my last tutorial for Java Code Geeks, which I scheduled for tomorrow (and yes, you guessed it right, I'm gonna talk again about a tutorial of mine hah).

So, most of you that ended up to this post, possibly found yourself in the same position as I did, a long time ago: while working on an eclipse project, you simply thought about zipping the whole project and yes, it would be cool if there was a way to implement it not by hand.

Here are the steps:

• Right-click on the project and navigate to Export :

• Select Archive File and click Next : 

• Select which folders/files you wish to exclude from the final .zip (I excluded the target folder, as you see), give a name to the compressed file and hit Finish : 

And a final note : target  folder is what comes out from maven execution, so we obviously don't need it in a .zip file or in a project that we plan to upload to github, for example.

Hope you found it interesting,

Cheers!