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Eclipse, Mylyn and Trac 0.11
My first post for ages! Sorry about that....
Something quite exciting, that I've had a crack at fixing myself, but the combination of my poor java and python skills has prevented me from completing this adequately. However, the combined skills of the trac developers and the development team for Mylyn and the Mylyn Trac connector have managed to combine to finally provide the highly awaited Mylyn, Eclipse and custom Trac workflow integration!
Web 2.0 - Meeting the challenge
I few weeks back I wrote an aritcle for the bdaily bulletin on Web 2.0. I ended up writing a little too much and it ended up as a two parter. Here now are the two parts back to one article.
Running ie6 in ie7 compatibility mode
This was an April Fools Day post. Please don't try this at home!!! Please do enjoy the link to Hugs for Monsters. ;)
Yesterday I was doing a bunch of testing of a site that went live in the afternoon. Most of that testing involved making sure that there were no faux pas in the CSS that broke the display in Internet Explorer 6.
Web 2.0 Articles in the bdaily
One of the many blogs, newsletters and electronic publications that I read is a Newcastle-based business daily newsletter called the bdaily.
The bdaily publishes selected business news from the north east of england to recipients locally as well as globally.
Manually creating JRun Server instances.
I'm having a spot of bother with the JRun JMC (Java Management Console) at the minute.
For some reason I'm getting error messages like this :
Blog Round up 19 Feb 2009
Ack! I really should keep up with these things. I've been reading through a couple of new blogs, looking at extJS and playing with Sun's GlassFish as a possible alternate java server for ColdFusion.
Well, Gary Fenton joked that I should change my blog slogan to "I read 100 blogs so YOU don't have to!", now I actually do read 100 blogs! Well 102 to be precise! hmmm make that 103... No idea why, but Adam Lehman's blog wasn't on my list!
Blog Round up 3 Feb 2009
Errrmmm... Happy New Year! :D Sorry for not keeping up with my blog round-ups.
I've been looking at my HUGE back log of blog entries and thinking I should do a round-up and then being too daunted by the task. So finally last week I decided to go back to the 26th of January and only read those blog entries and round-up from there and then mark everything as read!
Now that have a sensible number of blog entries in Google Reader I'm finally starting to read them again, so here goes nothing!! ;)
ColdFusion Conference Stuff
There's also been a flurry of blog post on how to install the various ColdFusion engines on a variety of environments.
Site Launch : ITV Signed Stories
Ah! Finally! Launch day....
I'm proud to have been a part of the team at Enigma that put together this site for ITV SignPost BSL.
The goal of ITV Signed Stories, http://www.signedstories.com/, is to help improve the literacy of deaf children.
The site is fun, colourful and interactive for children of all ages (click the cat on the home page flash movie - that was my sole graphical suggestion ;) ), but also provides information and a place to chat (forums coming very soon) for parent, carerers and teachers.
The fun stuff in the site is each of the world under which you can find the initial set of 21 children's books (Word is they ITV will be adding at least one new book a week). Each flash world helps visitors to the site find books that interest them the most. The worlds are "Adventure", "Baby and Toddler", "Fairytales and Folktales", "Funny", "Slimy Scary" and "Families and Friendships". Books within each world are displayed by relevancy to that world. ie. In Slimy Scary, the more slimy and scary the books are rated the bigger and the closer to the middle of the book cloud they will be displayed.
Within each world there is a book tree that allow you to change the order of the books by difficulty. Clicking on the branches rearrange the books to bring the most relevant books for that difficulty level to the front.
Clicking on a book will bring up a short, signed, preview of the selected book. Clicking on the GO button will bring up a signed animated video of the selected book.
Books on the site are from authors such as Michael Rosen, the Children's Laureate, Jez Alborough, and Julia Donaldson. People in the UK will know at least a few of the people reading the books, for example Kevin Whatley and Emila Fox. The animation is created by the likes of King Rollo Films. Last, but not least, the books are signed by Natalie Pollard, Khalid Ashraf and Denise Armstrong. Mary Briggs, co-founder of Seven Stories, is also a consultant on the project.
That's quite a role call to stand up to, but Scott Tyrell, the designer on the project, has had a lot of fun and done a superb of designing and animating the various Book Theme worlds. The Book Tree and the Book Cloud presented us with some interesting technical issues, particularly with book relevancy and the book cloud, but Simon Forster and Peter Gledhill have worked tirelessly to produce a very slick interface. Mariana Stoffin has done some great work putting together a lot of the CSS and functionality in the rest of the content driven site. I've had some fun putting together some Model Glue Unity applications and remote services, with ColdSpring and Transfer-ORM, as well as some JQuery stuff. Of course, we wouldn't have got to where we did without our task master, Nicole Hardy, keeping us on track. ;)
The site's goal, as I said before, is to improve literacy of deaf children, but the books that are on there so far are so good that I've already been showing them to my 2 year old son (2 years just after Xmas! Where has the time gone!!) and he loves them. James' vocab and stringing sentences together is really starting to kick at the minute and shouts "Coming!" excitedly when he sees the swirl while a world or book video is being loaded.
Well.... I think that's enough of me gushing about the site!!! I know I'm biased, but I love it! I hope you all do too!
Please take a look and enjoy! Signed Stories : http://www.signedstories.com
Now maybe I'll get back to some blog reading and my round-ups ;)
Blog Round up 5 Nov 2008 - The Software release edition
The marathon blog round-up! 390 blog entries to have a read through!
A lesson in never leave a job you should be doing today/tonight until tomorrow!
I'm never going to be able to go through all those posts in one sitting so I'm going to start with the batch of software releases that have been going on the last few weeks.
So lets dive in!
Matt Woodward notes that Open Office 3.0, which I mentioned previously in my round posts, has been released.
Nathan Mische has updated ColdFire on RIAForge fixing a few bugs and an extension for a problem with json. I'd love to know how he comes up with his version numbers. :)
Ray Camden released version 1.5 of SpoolMail with a couple of feature enhancements. If you don't know what SpoolMail is - its handy for when you're developing email feature in application and need to see what is going into the mail queue without them actually have to be sent to real people.
Ted Patrick announced the release of Flash Player 10 and gives a quick overview of the new features. Matt Woodward notes that the Linux edition of FP10 was actually released at the same time, which is a rare event!
Transfer 1.1 Final was release by Mark Mandel. If you're stuck with a pre v1 copy of Transfer you really must get updated to the 1.1 version. The performance enhancements are superb, along with the addition of new features such as cache monitoring and object proxies and the stack of bug fixes makes this release a must. If you're on the transfer list you may have noticed me making a bit of a tit of myself, but finally something has clicked and I've spent the last few days having the most fun doing development than I have in a while. Don't get me wrong. I enjoy writing CFML, but its always nice to do something that is different to your usual routine and makes you feel all warm inside. ;oD I should probably note here that Mark Mandel has done a CFConversation with Brian Meloche.
Are you an open source developer? Do you work with databases? Then you might be interested in Aqua Data Studio 7. Todd Sharp notes that they offer free licences to open source developers.
The chaps at Broadchoice have been busy releasing and updating their very cool looking AIR application "Workspace". I really should sign up for a beta account. I wonder if it comes with free "more hours in the day". ;)
Ray Camden must be making use of those "more hours in the day", because in his relentless application development he's released an update to Lighthouse Pro along with everything else he working on.
Adobe have released a hotfix for ColdFusion 7 and 8 that adds multipart support to cfhttp to support changes with the Google and YouTube APIs.
Well I think thats about all the software releases I can find. My blog entry count is down to 318 and my head is swimming. Time to get some sleep. Please let my son sleep the night through so I get more than 4 hours sleep!
Tomorrow night - "Blog Round up 5 Nov 2008 - In other news". ;)
Blog Roundup 12 October 2008
I keep forgetting what the number of my next round up is, so I've decided I need to change the title. Hopefully it'll be generally more useful that #1 to n. It also means I can let my Friday lunchtime deadline slide a bit. I'm on the train coming back from Edinburgh and Andy Allan's stag do! Before you ask - typically, I made it up to Edinburgh, I had a couple of drinks and some food, but then had to cry off because I was suffering from a 24hour stomach bug. But I'm told lots of beer and fun was had.
First of all I added a new blog, Bob Silverberg, to my Google Reader this week. I saw a post by Bob on the CFCDev group regarding Object Oriented Validation that interested me given that I validation is one of those things you always have to do but gets in the way of doing the fun stuff. Bob's created a framework agnostic validation framework that will flexibly generate validation code for your data objects. Take a look - he explains it better than I can in a few words and there are also CS/Transfer examples available.
Ray Camden released an update to Sounding on RIAForge this week. Apparently its just a bug fix release with some user submitted UI improvements. Wish I'd spent the time to install Soundings for a survey recently, rather than use the free survey monkey account.
If you like a good book for learning tech from, then Ted Patrick is plugging Alaric Cole's new Flex Book - Learning Flex 3. Flash Player 10 is in the works, so Ted also has a post reminding us all to update our flash player detection.
Andrew Shorten has announce free one day flex training courses in London and the UK speakers for Max Europe
Kev McCabe has posted that Fusion Debug has released a beta update in their labs section for version 2.0.2.
While we're on the subject of editors, its nice to see that I'm not completely insane when it comes to setting up my development environment and that Scott Stroz from Alagad has an almost identical set up to me.
Legacy code is always a nightmare, and I'm sure most of us have left some classy snippets lying around, but it looks like Todd Sharp's friend has got their work cut out for them with stuff like this. Todd did show me some other gems.... It doesn't get any better! Along similar lines, John Whish asks "Refactoring - good or bad?" It all kinda rings a bell with me at the minute as I'm rewriting some code I wrote ages and ages ago, because I need to add some features and discovering that its just not that easy to do without the rewrite. If only I could wave a magic wand and replace all this dodgy old FB2 code with shiney new ModelGlue code.
A couple things that I've picked up off of BetaNews this last week that might be of interest. First is IBM's Bluehouse web collaboration service has entered a free public beta phase. Imagine Basecamp, but more. The other item that grabbed my attention was the review of Open Office 3RC4. I quite like OO, but I struggle with the transition between MS Office and OO. Perhaps its time to give it another look.
Well thats about all for this week, apart from noting that time flies when you're having fun. I've been writing ColdFusion applications since 1996, search engines have gone and been replaced in that time and A List Apart has been around for 10 years.