If you use Linux on a Laptop, chances are high that you can dramatically improve the responsiveness of all your GUI applications. This tip will work for you if you:

Use a frequency scaling application like powernowd (Ubuntu does this by default), cpudynd, or cpufreqd.
Have Kernel 2.6.9 or better.

In short, the trick is to disable powernowd [...]

Eclipse has lots and lots of hotkeys, but for daily work you need only a small subset. This are the hotkeys I consider to be the most important time savers:

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How to configure Subversion with Subversion: check out the configuration files, and have subversion automatically use the latest commited version. You do not need to have access to the repository server any more, just a subversion client and a text editor is enough. If you need to change access rights and users regularly, this can [...]

7-zip has one of the best compression ratio / decompression speed ratios of the planet. Give it a try, compression ratio is a bit better than RAR, and decompression is faster. The linux port is p7zip.
Unfortunately you cannot use 7zip for streams like gzip or bzip2. 7zip uses LZMA as the compression routine, and it [...]

Exceptions versus Logging
The big question is, when to use logging and when exceptions? Let me tell you a story:
Not so long ago I have been working in a Java project where I introduced log4j, and was very happy to see that all the System.out.println’s got removed and replaced with the much more sophisticated logging. For [...]