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Configuring A Remote Pine Client for a Dreamhost Account

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

I wanted to make sure I write this down somewhere, because I always forget how to configure Pine. I found a nice artical here, but had to go to google’s cache of the page to view it because it’s password protected now. Here are the configuration entries I made to get pine working with my [...]

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The Quest for the Ultimate (Remote) Dev Environment

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

I haven’t been comfortable with my work environment for the last couple of months that I’ve been working remotely. My remote office work involves connecting via VPN and making use of Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection. The problem is with speed. I just cannot get used to the delay between hitting the key and seeing the [...]

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Apple Safari 3 review, overview (now for windows!)

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Grab the best browser on the planet! Apple launches Safari 3 beta for download and it is available now on Windows. If you hated IE and are the convert to Firefox ever since their inception, then look no back. Safari 3 goes and fixes all the shortcomings of their 2.x version and comes out with [...]

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The Best Free UML Tool, Eclipse plugin UML Tool

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Probably, the best free, “simple” lightweight UML Tool with an eclipse plugin, I’ve ever used and would recommend. How many times were you working at a client place who did not have an official UML Tool in their enterprise and you need one to draw a simple use case analysis diagram or class diagram to [...]

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Setting Up Trac on Windows

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

This is an adaption of this howto, without all the options. I’m setting up a test Trac project without SVN, and this is how I did it:

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Metrics in Eclipse

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

I found an interesting plugin today: Metrics for Eclipse. It says the plugin is for Eclipse 3.1, but I’m using it with 3.2 and MyEclipse. The plugin gives you, among other things; Number of lines of code by package/project/class Number of methods Weighted methods per Class Lack of Cohesion Methods Number of children McCabe Cyclomatic [...]

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Trac vs. XPlanner Death Match

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Trac kills XPlanner. Trac has more functionality. Trac has plugins and is easy to customize. Trac provides extensive reporting capabilities out of the box. Trac is more intuitive. The only thing XPlanner has going for it is that it makes use of buzz words… actually just a single buzz word: Story. And the UI is [...]

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Ajaxterm: a web-enabled server terminal

Friday, March 2, 2007

Ever want to access your server, but that pesky firewall at work only allows web access? AjaxTerm is the answer. It is a python application that creates a virtual CONSOLE for the server it is installed on. It is simple to install and launch, you just need to configure a proxy in httpd.conf so you [...]

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Wiki Formatting Issues

Monday, February 12, 2007

I’ve had some wiki formatting issues lately, particularly when I try to add unix commands like scp and wget. The *NIX Command Line Tips section has suffered as a result. But no more. I’ve finally discovered a work around. If you’re adding something to the wiki page and you see a red underline under a [...]

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Assembla Me Something Interesting

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

I found this site while trolling the blogosphere today: Assembla looks like a sourceforge kind of site, only with newer web tools. Looks like it provides Subversion, Trac, and other collaborative features…

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