Author Archives: ron

MyFaces and JBoss built-in implementation

I’m working on a WebSphere-based application, and need to get it running on my Mac. RAD isn’t available for the Mac, and even if it was, it’s so far behind in Eclipse revisions that I can’t use most of the … Continue reading

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Semantic documentation markup languages: XDocs, DocBook, Dita

I’ve been using the Maven XDoc markup language for documenting design on a client project. Looking into editors for XDoc led me to taking a closer look at DocBook, and Dita, a relative newcomer. All of these formats allow you … Continue reading

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Change Management and Bug Tracking

A project I’m involved with is in need of a change management tool, so I’m in the process of re-evaluating the landscape of open source change management tools, and testing a couple out. Change management is one of those software … Continue reading

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Using IntelliJ IDEA

I’ve started using Intellij IDEA as an IDE. I’ve always heard good things about it but stuck with Eclipse because it’s pretty good, and the standard used by most clients I’ve worked with. What got me to try it out … Continue reading

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OpenID, Yahoo, and other news

Recent OpenID developments… At the end of this month, Yahoo will be supporting OpenID. Any Yahoo user that chooses to enable the feature will be able to use their Yahoo ID on sites that support OpenID. The announcement doesn’t mention … Continue reading

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Handy Java utility: jarexplorer

Wanted to give kudos to a handy little Java utility I started using: jarexplorer. It’s a Swing-based app that indexes the contents of jar files found in an entire directory structure, and lets you search for classes and files within … Continue reading

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Using Mercurial

As I posted earlier, I’ve been looking at some of the decentralized version control systems and started using Mercurial. There are several decentralized VCSs, including Bazaar, GIT, Mercurial, and others. Out of the decentralized VCSs, Mercurial and GIT seemed to … Continue reading

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pyAntTasks moved to Mercurial

I’ve started using the Mercurial version control system lately and switched over some projects over to it from Subversion. Since Google Code doesn’t yet support hosting Mercurial repositories, pyAntTasks has stayed on Subversion. Until now that is – I set … Continue reading

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This blog is now an OpenID

[update: when I switched to WordPress, I made http://rpstechnologies.net/ron my OpenID page – see that URL instead of this blog for the OpenID headers] This blog is now my OpenID. OpenID is a decentralized single sign-on system for the web. … Continue reading

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Version control systems: Going decentralized

I’ve used a number of version control systems over time, starting out with SCCS and RCS. I used CVS for many years for my own work and for client projects where CVS could be used. For the last 4 years … Continue reading

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