Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Mac users have long had a plethora of apps and devices for remotely controlling their computers. A frequent use for this is controlling presentations when presenting to a group, with a laptop connected to a projector.
I wanted this functionality for my Linux (Ubuntu) laptop, while using OpenOffice.org's Impress application, but ...
Posted in Chariot, Linux, Ubuntu, iPhone | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
I'm about to start working on an existing web application that has business rules concerning the timelines of processes.
Things like "when X happens, if it's been more than 14 days since Y happened, do Z".
Believe it or not, in the past, this has been integration-tested by doing Y, waiting 14 ...
Posted in Chariot, Java, Linux, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Friday, February 26th, 2010
I'm woking on a "legacy" Java app that's written in Struts and uses EJBs. No Jetty or Tomcat for me - gotta use a "real" J2EE container - in this case, JBoss.
Unfortunately, I haven't figured out a good way to run JBoss against my sources, as I would if using ...
Posted in Chariot, Java, Linux | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
I updated my server to the 9.10 "Karmic Koala" release of Ubuntu.
Unlike my recent laptop upgrade, I upgraded instead of doing a fresh install - I have too much software installed there to go through re-installation if I don't have to.
As I have mentioned here before, one of the things ...
Posted in Chariot, Linux, Ubuntu, Virtualization | 6 Comments »
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Ubuntu's 9.10 Karmic Koala release dropped yesterday, and I dove right in, downloaded it (via BitTorrent), and installed it on my aging Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop.
I didn't do an upgrade, I reformatted my primary partition, and installed it clean. I keep my /home directory on a separate partition precisely so ...
Posted in Linux, Ubuntu | 10 Comments »
Sunday, October 4th, 2009
My employer, Chariot Solutions, held an in-house, week-long iPhone development course, taught by the folks at Big Nerd Ranch.
The course was great, we all learned a lot, and several of our folks are working on some apps, including one that they announced recently at JBoss World.
80% or more of our ...
Posted in Chariot, Linux, Ubuntu, iPhone | 13 Comments »
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
I recently succumbed to the call of the iPhone.
I've had it for about a week, and I like it a lot.
All except for the fact that it's tied to Apple's App Store.
There's a whole world of third-party apps out there, but they're not available in the App Store.
So, I decided ...
Posted in Linux, iPhone | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
It was widely reported today that Google is working on "Chrome OS", a Linux based operating system targeted at netbooks.
The apparent purpose is to have an OS that boots very quickly on low-end hardware, and which mainly supports running Google's Chrome Web Browser.
To sum it up, instant-on access to Google ...
Posted in Chariot, Linux | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
As with the situation in an earlier post, the version of Subversion that is in the official Ubuntu repository is not the latest that is available elsewhere. The version that you currently get by installing Subversion on Ubuntu via apt-get is version 1.5, and 1.6 is out.
Fortunately, Anders Kaseorg has ...
Posted in Chariot, Linux, Ubuntu | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
I've been using Ubuntu Jaunty for a few weeks now.
So far, I've been very happy with it, and there have been some great improvements - most notably for me, the boot time - I run it on two different laptops (work and home), so I go through the boot sequence ...
Posted in Chariot, Linux, Ubuntu | 2 Comments »
Integration Testing Applications With System Time Dependencies
