New Screencast: the Sakai App Builder Plugin for Eclipse
My new eleven-minute screencast is about how to use Aaron Zeckoski’s App Builder plugin for Eclipse to jumpstart your new Sakai tool projects.
It’s also a great learning tool, since you have a working tool in less than two minutes and you can start playing around with modifications.
As before, new videos are posted here: http://aeroplanesoftware.com/sakai-training-videos
Getting Started with Sakai: Setting Up Eclipse
I have just posted part two of my series of screencasts on how to get started developing for Sakai. This one is all about setting up the Eclipse IDE. Tasty!
Here is your link.
Interface21 now SpringSource
I guess this happened late last year, but it escaped my notice: Interface21, the company behind the Spring Framework, has changed its name to SpringSource and has a spiffy new website to go with it.
The Spring Framework has come to be synonymous with enterprise Java. It’s a great example of the cream rising to the [...]
Book Review: Dreaming in Code
This one’s been out for a while, but I just got Scott Rosenberg’s “Dreaming in Code” for Christmas. It’s an inside view of the Chandler project, an open source effort by Lotus founder Mitch Kapor. They’re trying to create the ultimate personal information manager, a place to corral all your email, calendar appointments, notes, tasks, [...]
A Weekend at No Fluff Just Stuff
I just wrapped up a weekend attending No Fluff Just Stuff. To put it in a nutshell, it was the best technical conference I’ve ever attended, from the standpoint of the value it pays back for your time and money. Its salient features are:
it is a traveling show, so you don’t fly to it, it [...]
Who Needs Flash?
I was pretty amazed when I found out the iPhone browser wouldn’t support flash. It’s a little fishy; I can’t think of any technical reasons there can’t be a very solid flash player on there. I think Apple is intentionally locking it down because they don’t want to lose control of their platform overnight (and [...]
Maven 2 is a Go
Just finished my first Sakai build with Maven 2. Thanks Ian! This is going to take some getting used to: I have run Maven 1.0.2 around 10 times a day for the past three years. I may compile some notes about how Maven 2 is different.
Long Live Safari Books Online
My Safari Books Online subscription just came up for renewal, and I thought it was worth a quick mention here. There are only a few products and/or services that are so good they make me happy to part with my money, but Safari is one of those. I am a technical books junkie. I used [...]
Facebook Platform
I just saw Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote address from the Facebook developer conference. They have just announced a radical new platform for deploying social network applications, and I believe they are poised to take over the world.
I have been fascinated by the implications of online social networks since Friendster hit the scene. Friendster suffered [...]
Markdown 2 Confluence
I seriously heart Markdown, but on several of my projects, we use Confluence for documentation etc. Here is a script I wrote to convert from Markdown to Confluence markup:
#!/bin/sh # Takes standard input in Markdown format and converts it to Confluence wiki format # Usage: # markdown2confluence.sh < markdown-file > confluence-file umask 077
TEMP1=/tmp/markdown2html.$$ TEMP2=/tmp/html2confluence.$$
trap “exit [...]