Archive for the 'Development' Category

It has been so long since I’ve written anything to this blog. I didn’t actually think anyone read it, but then Phil Windley twittered me about using the twitter/SVN commit hook post so I figured it’s showing up somewhere.
The latest change I’ve made to my Ubuntu work is to start using IntelliJ Idea 8 for [...]


Partly out of curiosity, and partly because I wanted to play with the twitter API, I’ve hacked together a little script to push subversion commit details to twitter. It’s actually so simple it isn’t funny.
You will need:

A twitter account. Username and password. Duh.
A subversion repository. Duh.
The ‘curl’ utility.

I’m running subversion on a Linux machine that [...]


It’s been another few weeks since the last post here, and like before, there’s really nothing to report. Development of my Linux project is slowly chugging along, although it did slow down a fair bit over christmas. I’m primarily running Ubuntu on the Dell D820 that I’ve been issued by my day job employer now, [...]


It’s not an Ubuntu issue per se, but I’ve been really frustrated trying to get Eclipse setup and working correctly. It’s the first time I’ve seriously looked at Eclipse. The idea of a universal platform that your development tools plug into is good in principle, but I’m not convinced it’s there just yet. I’ve been [...]