Monthly Archives: February 2009

IDEA versus Eclipse

Posted on February 26, 2009 by matthew

IDEA has been giving me grief lately. Fed up with mysterious pauses, bugs in svn moves, and crashes even after performing cache-deletion voodoo in IDE, I’m back to trying Eclipse. Keystroke differences and functionality differences have been the major stumbling … Continue reading →

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Simple Log4J eclipse template

Posted on February 26, 2009 by matthew

Do you use eclipse and log4j? Do you have a template to add a static Logger instance in classes? Do you have to manually add the import? HA! NO MORE! Under Preferences > Java > Editor > Templates, click New… … Continue reading →

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How to set up native subversion (javahl) with Subclipse on Mac OS X

Posted on February 23, 2009 by matthew

Note that this is for Ganymede (Eclipse 3.4.x). Install the javahl binding with MacPorts: sudo port install subversion +bash_completion sudo port install subversion-javahlbindings Run eclipse, and add this upgrade site: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.4.x Select the “JavaHL Adapter” and “Subclipse” modules and click … Continue reading →

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Solution for mysql_upgrade errno: 13

Posted on February 19, 2009 by matthew

Are you upgrading MySQL, and seeing this? [plain highlight="6,7"] $ mysql_upgrade Looking for ‘mysql’ as: mysql Looking for ‘mysqlcheck’ as: mysqlcheck Running ‘mysqlcheck’… …. Could not create the upgrade info file ‘/usr/local/mysql/data/mysql_upgrade_info’ in the MySQL Servers datadir, errno: 13 [/plain] … Continue reading →

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Skype Beta for Mac 2.8 has screen sharing

Posted on February 5, 2009 by matthew

Skype Beta for Mac OS X version 2.8 adds screen sharing, and it’s easy to use — but screen sharing is only available on the Mac version of Skype. Until they port screen sharing to Windows and Linux, teamviewer and … Continue reading →

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java rake db:migrate implementations

Posted on February 3, 2009 by matthew

I was surprised that there were so many libraries that do the same thing — manage change in  your database schema. Here’s what I’ve found so far: Liquibase (migrations are specified in db-generic XML) migrate4j (migrations must be writted in … Continue reading →

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