Category Archives: Technology

Installing eclipse 3.3 on Gentoo

Posted on July 14, 2007 by andy dingfelder

Today was the day to get eclipse going on Gentoo. I downloaded the latest version (3.3) and dropped it into /opt/eclipse. I fired it up and got: # ./eclipse * run-java-tool is not available for sun-jdk-1.6 on i686 * IMPORTANT: … Continue reading →

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Getting ready for eclipse on Gentoo

Posted on July 12, 2007 by andy dingfelder

Getting ready for eclipse 3.3 on Gentoo, I first need to get my system configured to use a more recent version of Java instead of the default 1.4. Here is a site dedicated to gentoo java: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/ the first thing … Continue reading →

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moving to linux

Posted on July 9, 2007 by andy dingfelder

Well, I finally made the decision to move to Linux from Windows XP. I have decided upon using Gentoo as my platform of choice. Gentoo seems to be the most cutting edge, as it supports installations via compiling everything from … Continue reading →

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Eclipse mylyn mantis integration

Posted on June 10, 2007 by andy dingfelder

I set up mantis connect today on our server… it was very easy: just drop the “mc” directory from the archive (and it’s subdirectory) to the Mantis root directory. do not use the distribution from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mantisconnect as it does not … Continue reading →

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first thoughts about eclipse 3.3

Posted on May 29, 2007 by andy dingfelder

After my first full week of using Eclipse (having moved away from JBuilder) I thought I would list some of my thoughts: The visual editor sucks. Jbuilder 2005/6 and Netbeans have eclipse beat here. I hope this area improves soon. … Continue reading →

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abandoning jbuilder, going to eclipse

Posted on May 25, 2007 by andy dingfelder

With a heavy heart, I am now offficially abandoning JBuilder, and moving to Eclipse. I will spend the next month playing with Eclipse 3.3 while it is in the final stages prior to release. I am currently using 3.3m3 The … Continue reading →

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what is going on here

Posted on May 25, 2007 by andy dingfelder

after reporting my issues connecting to xplanner from jbuilder (adding a task repository) I got an email from codegear support. The support tech (Chee Wee Chua) told me: From the main menu, access Window, Preferences, Team, CVS, Proxy Settings. Set … Continue reading →

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xplanner issues connecting

Posted on May 10, 2007 by andy dingfelder

When I try and create a task repository using xplanner from the IDE, and enter what I think is a valid url, name and pwd, I get the followin g error msg: The supplied credentials are invalid nested exception is: … Continue reading →

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project assist stacks

Posted on May 5, 2007 by andy dingfelder

Because of install issues with projectAssist (it would not successfully install bugzilla or xplanner) I manually installed all the components, including: Tomcat 5.5.23 Apache 2.2.4 Mysql 5.0.37 Perl 5.8.8.817 (ActiveState) Liferay 4.2.1 Continuum 1.0.3 Xplanner 0.7b Bugzilla 3.0 Subversion 1.4.3 … Continue reading →

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ProjectAssist Installation Errors (part 4)

Posted on April 12, 2007 by andy dingfelder

Because of install issues with ProjectAssist (it would not successfully install Bugzilla or Xplanner) I manually installed all the components, including: Tomcat 5.5.23 Apache 2.2.4 Mysql 5.0.37 Perl 5.8.8.817 (ActiveState) Liferay 4.2.1 Continuum 1.0.3 Xplanner 0.7b Bugzilla 3.0 Subversion 1.4.3 … Continue reading →

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