Installing Subversion 1.5 on Ubuntu 8.04

Using the new Eclipse version 3.4.0 and its subeclipse plugin, I found that my linux svn client has been too old:
svn: This client is too old to work with working copy '.'; please get a newer Subversion client

So, I have followed cylindric.net instructions installing via apt-get the 1.5 version of svn client: it works fine for me.

Thanks to cylindric.net

L’Ingegnere Informatico e gli Aspetti Giuridico Penali

Indicazioni: sui Contratti, sui riferimenti normativi, sulle responsabilità della professione dell’Ingegnere Informatico; sono ben esposti nella sezione download del sito Web dell’Avv. Cesare Triberti .
Consigliato e utile chi si occupa di contratti e/o consulenza in ambito ICT.

Grazie ad Alessandro per il link.

Universal JDBC GUI Client

I’ve found Squirrel Client very useful and mature product.

What I like in Squirrel Client:

1. Autocomplete during sql writing for table names and fields, see below a screenshot.
2. Automatically Keep your queries history also with the results
3. …

Video Registratore Canali Italiani (TV e Radio)

Personal Podcast for Tv & Radio Recording

Faucet has been created in order to allow Radio and TV to be usable:
“when, what, where, how you want” by way of the new portable media players.

Faucet allows you to record your favourite broadcast and receive them
as podcasts, to be watched whenever and wherever on your personal player.

Faucet

Thanks to Roberto.

Tomcat 5.5 JNDI DataSource definition for Mysql

I share with you a DataSource definition for Tomcat 5.5 and Mysql that works fine for me. Before this version I found some problems because Mysql, under Debian, closes the connections after 8 hours of inactivity… so after a night the connection pools has not been available.

<Context
  path="/webappname"
  docBase="webappname"
  debug="5"
  reloadable="true" crossContext="true">
   <Resource
       name="jdbc/webappname"
       auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource"
       maxActive="100"
       maxIdle="20"
       maxWait="10000"
       validationQuery="SELECT 1"
       testOnBorrow="true"
       testWhileIdle="true"
       timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis="900"
       minEvictableIdleTimeMillis="65000"
       username="yourUsername"
       password="yourPassword"
       driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
     url="jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/dbName?autoReconnectForPools=true"/>
</Context>
  

Hope it can help you.

A rough Jboss Debian init script

I share with you my rough script for init jboss on Debian.
I have:

1. taken this from the JPackage Project
2. simplified and adapted to work on DebianSarge with lsb functions.

I have tested compliance with HA LSB semplified rules and seems working.

I’m not very famliar with shell scripts , if you can get better I’m happy to learn.
Yuo can see it here.

Sun Java -> GPL

Today in a historic move, Sun is opening the door to greater innovation by open sourcing key of Java implementations:

• Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE),
• Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME),
• and Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE)

Sources has been available under GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2)

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MotorBike Accident: Developing PlatypusWiki

A motorbike accident has broken my fibula, more or less one month ago.

During these days I’m working hard to refactoring PlatypusWiki. I hope to achive an acceptable release.
PlatypusWiki is a free time project, we are searching, from long time: founds, investors or partners to trasform it in a not free time project and achieve a real product.
Do you beleve in it ? Are you interested ? Contact me Stefano

Open source companies to watch

An interesting article appared today on NetWorkWorld:

“Open source software is a given in most enterprise data centers, so it’s not surprising to see the ranks of open source companies and projects swell. It’s not just Linux anymore – community-developed software is offering alternatives for everything from databases to application servers to network management to disaster preparedness.”

From NetWorkWorld: Read It

Semantic Wiki for E-Government

This paper explains current challenges to the development of a Semantic Web, identifies Wiki advantages, illustrates a potential solution and summarises major directions for further research.

Building Semantic Webs for e-government with Wiki technology