Category Archives: Technology

Technology

Posted by J. Lawson-Bradfield on April 23, 2009 None comments

I just finished a night of general geekiness and as I lay here thinking about the accomplishments, and realizing that I’m writing this from my phone, I wonder if maybe there is a downside to it all.

JSR-168 Portlet Specification

Posted by J. Lawson-Bradfield on April 16, 2009 None comments

What is it about the JSR-168 spec that is so hard for vendors to implement. Too vague? Too free? What?
I just wasted the last week trying to figure out why portlets were not rendering with a particular structure. Turns out with the folder in web containing the view, edit and help.jsp files can not start with a capital letter. What the hell?

LDAP Browser for Mac

Posted by J. Lawson-Bradfield on April 14, 2009 None comments

I got a little tired of launching LDAP Browser (LBE from Novell) on the Mac from command line. So I created a .app file for Mac (zipped) that can be placed in your Applications folder. This was created using Platypus and has not been tested on any other machine than mine. Please report any bugs found.

Xmind

Posted by J. Lawson-Bradfield on March 14, 2009 None comments

First off, XMind is a mind mapping program that I started using on a Mac, transferred to an Eclipse 3.4 plugin and have since downloaded and installed on any computer I have including my Linux machines at home. That said, there is a bit of an oddity when running it under linux. I couldn’t find any information on how to run the executable from outside of the unzipped folder. I have found that fix and wanted to share for anyone else who has had this issue. Below is what I have in place on a Fedora 9 install with Sun JDK 1.5.0…

  1. Download the XMind Portable from their site
  2. Unzip to /usr/local/xmind-portable/
  3. Rename XMind for Linux to XMind-Linux
  4. Open the config.ini file from XMind-Linux folder
  5. Edit any paths to reflect your location of /usr/local/xmind-portable/XMind-Linux/
  6. Copy all the values in this file and edit the lines to be a single line
  7. Create your shortcut to /usr/local/xmind-portable/XMind-Linux/xmind and append the single line from step 6
  8. Done!

Cloud Programming?

Posted by J. Lawson-Bradfield on February 19, 2009 None comments

I’m not sure I have a very strong opinion on this but I did find it interesting. LinuxMag has an article about Mozilla Labs releasing Bespin into the ether as a cloud based code editor. More investigation is my next step but not until I stop working 10 hour days…