July 19, 2008

Wikipedia frustration

Christian Decker wrote this terribly early in the morning:
Apparently I’m not the only one frustrated with the rules and relevance checks of Wikipedia “officials”:

The reason for my frustration is that I tried twice to add an article about a popular band in switzerland to the german Wikipedia version, but twice it was considered irrelevant. No problem so far, except that I was told that once they’d publish a CD and have 5′000 records sold they would be relevant… but hey, that’s bureaucratic germany… they can change their mind whenever they want.

So the article still isn’t online, though Des Koenigs Halunken have met all of the criteria to be in there… call it fair…

[Thanks for http://www.socialsignal.com/ for the Picture]

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July 15, 2008

WordPress 2.6

Christian Decker wrote this in the early evening:
WordPress 2.6 has been released:
I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5. WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.6
After the amazing 2.5 release with its hundreds of new features this release seems to be a bit minimalistic, but I installed it anyway. Actually this post is being written from the new Press This button which is a feature I’ve seen some years ago, but then disappeared again. Using WP-Cache I had no downtime at all, since all my posts were cached and served from that cache :-)

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July 8, 2008

Debugging remote Tomcat from Eclipse

Christian Decker wrote this in the wee hours:
I recently set up a new Project using Maven 2. Sadly, while facilitating the Project setup, this means that I couldn’t get all the free configuration I could have had by simply clicking through the Eclipse Wizard for Dynamic Web Projects, namely the ability to run the Tomcat container right inside Eclipse, with automagic reloading, etc… Luckily I found this post by Narendra Naidu which explains the details on how to start Tomcat in the JPDA debugging mode, and how to attach Eclipse to it:
  1. Start Tomcat in JPDA debug mode. For this, set up two variables in the environment as follows:
  2. The first variable is: set JPDA_TRANSPORT=dt_socket (This tells the VM that the debugger would talk to the VM on Tcp sockets)
  3. The second variable is: set JPDA_ADDRESS=8000 (This tells the VM the port on which it should listen for debugger connections)
  4. Go to the command prompt and run the ‘Catalina.bat’ batch file present in {TomcatHome}\bin. On the command prompt pass the following argument: catalina jdpa start
  5. Go to Eclipse and open the Debug window. Create a new configuration under ‘Remote Java Application’ . Make sure ‘Connection Type’ is Socket and port is 8000
  6. Navigate the webapplication thru web browser and see your Eclipse stop at breakpoints.
Very helpful :-)

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July 2, 2008

Toggl Timer for iGoogle

Christian Decker wrote this in the late evening:
Toggl is a very valuable tool to track where you spent all your time during the day. iGoogle (former Google Homepage) is great to have open all the time, with its thousands of Gadgets from Alphabet Display to Weather Forecasts. Sadly though I was unable to find a Google Gadget that allowed me to show the Toggl Timer in my startpage. So I decided I’d have a go and try to make it myself. After only some minutes I already had a running version, which needed a little bit of tweaking. So here it is: the Toggle Timer Gadget.Google Toggl Timer Gadget And if you’re really brave, add it to your homepage Add to Google

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June 25, 2008

All my favorite Firefox Addons are Firefox 3 compatible

Christian Decker wrote this in the late afternoon:
Finally, after quite some time, all my favorite Firefox Addons are Firefox 3 compatible. The last remaining Addon that hadn’t made the jump was All-In-One Sidebar, which finally updatet today. Right now I use (and love) the following Addons:
  • AdBlock Plus: the best Ad Blocker out there
  • All-in-One Sidebar: it’s so nice to have everything open in the sidebar
  • Firebug: have you ever seen a web developer without it?
  • Foxmarks Bookmark System: yes, I’m using multiple machines and it’s nice to have them sync automatically (this btw replaced Google Browsersync, which was a bit annoying in its behaviour)
  • Gmail Manager: allows me to check and log in to multiple Gmail accounts at once
  • Greasemonkey: I like to enhance sites myself
  • RememberTheMilk for Gmail: best todo list ever integrated into the best Mail client ever
  • Tab Mix Plus: still not in my fix list, but it looks nice for now
I’m always on the lookout for good addons, so let me know if you have some good ones :)

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