Friday - January 02, 2009

Open your WebObjects app in a browser other than your system default browser


After 10.5.6 Update, I found I had to update my WOOpenURL script to use the full path to Firefox.app...


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Wednesday - July 11, 2007

Eclipse Regex (Regular Expression) Plugin


Came across this little gem, "QuickREx ", the other day. Up to now I have used the free open source "RegexPlor.app" for OS X, but I really like this open source Eclipse plugin ...

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Thursday - July 05, 2007

Importing a WOLips Project into Subversion Repository


Simple tutorial on how to do an initial import of an existing WebObjects project into a Subversion repository using the Subclipse plugin. At time of writing I had latest subversion (1.4.4) and subclipse (1.2.3) installed.

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Thursday - July 05, 2007

Setting up Subclipse for access to a Subversion Repository


This is pretty simple task, but for completeness of the Subversion articles I am doing, here it is .........

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Thursday - July 05, 2007

Setting Up Subversion Repository on OS X


Subversion is becoming more popular than CVS over time as a source code version control system. Subversion is impressive in it's design goals and from the outset, it's goals and objectives appear to be very well thought out. Subversion is flexible and repositories can be made available in many flexible ways from as simple as a repository on your local hard drive to internet based repositories served over http or https protocols.

For this exercise we show how to set up a simple repository on a network server with secure shell access. The requirements of the repository are accessibility by a small stable development team of 3 trusted inhouse developers with a need to update and commit remotely outside of the local area network. The requirement for tunneling repository traffic over ssh is simply to protect the small amounts of sensitive data such as API pins or private SSL keys that are shared by the repository. Also keep in mind that there are many, many ways to set up a Subversion infrastructure. This is just one way that suits my needs and is based on the concept explained in the Subversion book in the section SSH configuration tricks . There are other ways and variations that may suit your needs better.

This article assumes that you have a basic knowledge of unix command line usage...

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Saturday - April 21, 2007

Goodbye XCode!


At last, I am free of XCode ......

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Friday - January 05, 2007

Setting up Java Packages in XCode


I has a few source classes belonging to a package and I had trouble figuring out how to set up the physical folder structure on the hard drive and the group structure in XCode so that XCode would not change its mind about where it expected the java files every time I tried to build the app. Ray Kiddy had the know how .......... here is a transcript ........

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Tuesday - November 21, 2006

EOGenerator - Referencing Prototypes in a different EOModel


Today when I ran my eogenerator script, I got an error ... it has been over 10 days since I needed to run eogenerator on my project, so I had obviously done something. After getting over the few seconds of that uneasy feeling in your stomach at the thought of losing productivity (I was in the developer coding rapidly zone .... and now I had a derailment to deal with) fixing a problem on something that has always worked reliably up to now.......

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Monday - June 12, 2006

Java Debugger for debugging deadlocked apps


Article can be found here
http://wocode.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOCode.woa/2/wa/ShareCodeItem?itemId=439

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Tuesday - July 12, 2005

Monitoring HTTP Activity using 'tcpflow'


I just found this and I love it. Really easy to use development tool to monitor HTTP (or any other TCP port) activity.

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Monday - December 27, 2004

Crash Course in 'vi' Text Editor


I prefer to use BBEdit for text editing, but sometimes you are remotely logged into a server using ssh and you don't have a GUI while other times you have a big file with extremely long lines (big SQL statements from a sql dump for example). I love pico for editing small simple files (watch out .... it does not work with long lines) and recently I like using vi for simple edits to unix files. In any case, I use these only when I have to so I don't want to read a book on vi when mostly I just need to navigate and search/replace and save for example.....

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Tuesday - November 16, 2004

Quickstart Guide to using Log4j


Log4j has become a standard for logging. It is simple enough to use at the basic level and yet, the granularity of logging can be increased or decreased easily with adjustments to the logger configuration. Enough said, see here quickstart meaty details for using log4j in your WebObjects app....

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Sunday - November 14, 2004

EOGenerator (an awesome tool!)


EOGenerator is a powerful tool and worthwhile incorporating. I just did for the first time on a new project. While it is fresh in my mind I put together a quick start guide....

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