Entries from May 2007

29 May, 2007

first thoughts about eclipse 3.3

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.
The spell checker finds spelling mistakes, but right clicking the error does not give an “add to [...]

25 May, 2007

abandoning jbuilder, going to eclipse

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 basic problem I had is that the base functionality I need did not work out of the [...]

25 May, 2007

what is going on here

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 the proxy connection, username and passsword there.
Let me know if this resolves the issue.
Thank you.
hmmm… interesting.
why is [...]

10 May, 2007

xplanner issues connecting

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:
java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
The only field I do not know what to enter is: “Label:”
The error occurrs [...]

5 May, 2007

project assist stacks

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

All of the separate components are working beautifully under Windows 2000.
When I try and run the projectAssist wizard, it detects bugzilla, continuum & xplanner, but [...]