Subversion Help – Books, Plugins, and Hosting

Eclipse, Java, Mac OS X, Subversion 3 Comments »

subversion-book.gifSubversion is the defacto open source source version control system these days and a great improvement over cvs. It’s also a steal at the ripe price of free.

Great (and also free) documentation is available here: Version Control with Subversion.

You can also buy the hardcopy from Amazon.

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Red5: open source Flash server

Java, Web Development 4 Comments »

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Red5 is an Open Source Flash Server written in Java. Here’s a collection of links into the Red5 site:

Main:

http://osflash.org/red5

Download:

http://www.osflash.org/red5/red5downloads

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Is Spring the new Java EE?

Java, Spring Comments Off

spring.gifThere’s a great article over at the server side about Spring as the new Java EE.

I favored Spring and Hibernate over the more widely sanctioned Struts and EJB combo a long time ago. It’s always nice to see I’m not the only one embracing change and the article covers nicely similar transitions in the Java conference space.

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JAVA_HOME on Mac OS X

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java-logo.pngI let OS X handle downloading and installing the latest JDK via System Preferences -> Software Update. Some Java software require that JAVA_HOME be explicitly set, so where should it point?

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Upgrading Eclipse to MyEclipse

Eclipse, Java 2 Comments »

myeclipselogo.jpgI was a hard core emacs user for a long time, then a pretty devout Eclipse user. Recently, taking the MyEclipse plunge has been worth every cent of the subscription fee. The handiest tool so far has been the Database Explorer (think: MySQL query browser, Toad, pgAdmin) and the Hibernate Reverse Engineering tool. See this video of both in action.

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