Access denied Linux MySQL error solution

I have not worked much with Linux and today i installed MySQL on Ubuntu 8.10. I logged in using the command "mysql -u root -p password". I was happily logged into MySQL and was able to execute commands like "show databases".
Then tried to create a database called kilo using the command

create database kilo;

and was greeted with the error below.

ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'kilo'

The problem was in the space between -u and root. So the correct command to use is mysql -uroot -ppassword

Skipping Test execution phase in Maven

In few scenarios we may want to skip the execution of tests in Maven. [For example when the execution of tests need special setup which may not be available to the build machine.]

we can use the following command which mentions the argument maven.test.skip to skip test execution phase.

mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true clean install

How to refer environment variables in ANT

We may have to access environment variables in our ANT build script. To do this, let us provide a handler to access the environment as below

<property environment="env"/>

Then you can refer any of the environment value like computer name on which the build script is run as below

<property name="destinationmachinename" value="dest.${env.COMPUTERNAME}"/>