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 [...]

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Universal JDBC GUI Client

I’ve found Squirrel Client very useful and mature product.
What I like in Squirrel Client:

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

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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” [...]

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A rough Jboss Debian init script

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

taken this from the JPackage Project
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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Pragmatic Project Management

I’m reading A Project Management Primer written by Nick Jenkins, I have found it: simple and concrete. Not often project management topic is treated by people that have really developed software ….

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OCM: Object/Content Mapping framework

After: XML data binding, ORM (Object To Relational Mapping), DTO, FormBeans, DAO, and so on … Arrives the new “pattern” OCM.
So, I’m asking to myself, how many years and written code lines, before we find a large accepted standard way to persist Objects ?
Is the future way, to develop applications, still with object oriented [...]

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RubyOnRails

These days I’m learing RubyOnRails, I like this apporach based on naming conventions.
As java men I cannot understand why java frameworks (struts, spring, hibernate, ..) do not get the advantage from the presence of the compiler, they are moving more java code into xml configuration files. In this manner compiler aids are lost.
When a JavaOnRails [...]

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