Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

From Rebecca Dovi President at CSTA - Central VA Richmond, Virginia Area Id like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Rebecca Confirm that you know Rebecca You are receiving Invitation to Connect emails. Unsubscribe © 2012, LinkedIn Corporation. 2029 Stierlin Ct. Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

OK - this is really cracking me up. I accidentally hit THAT button in LinkedIn a few weeks back. Many of you know this since you have suffered the spam it has generated. Apparently it also asked my blog to join my network.

To be honest I am not sure what LinkedIn does besides spam a lot of very nice people. A lot. Sorry if you were one of them. Please feel free to explain it to me, school is about to start and my brain is on overload and I could be missing something amazing.

Reason number 15 why neglecting your blog for three weeks is a bad idea...it starts joining social networks due to loneliness.

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Eclipse Not Able To Connect Internet Market Place Configure Connection Proxy Settings

If you are using Eclipse in your company, you might have faced issues, where Eclipse is not able to connect to internet. Since most of companies uses proxy for connecting to Internet, its important to configure proxy settings in Eclipse to allow Eclipse to access Internet behind organization's firewall. If your company regularly changes there internet proxy settings then this also needs to be updated whenever your Proxy server changes. Since Eclipse needs internet connection for connecting to Eclipse Market place, installing and updating plugins, downloading Maven dependencies from remote maven repository, it's really frustrating when Eclipse just hung up, shows connecting and time out after a long time. If you see Eclipse is not able to connect to Market Place or not able to download any Maven dependency, first thing to check is your connection proxy settings. If you don't know where to find connection proxy settings for Eclipse IDE or doesn't know how to configure proxy setting for internet in Eclipse IDE, then you can follow steps given in next section of this article. By the way, this is one of the several tips, which I have shared on Eclipse IDE e.g. Eclipse  keyboard shortcuts, Eclipse debugging tips and productivity settings. Since Eclipse is one of my favourite and most widely used FREE IDE for Java development, it's important for every Java developer to some useful configuration and settings details.

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