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I found a lot of good answers on this site (New View Networks).

The difference was I tried to install both the plug-in for Eclipse 3.4 as well as the stand alone installer. I tried uninstalling, restarting, updating the OS, restarting, uninstalling, you get the point.

I finally found a suggestion to rearrange the java version and use the 32-bit Java 5.0 version instead of the 64-bit Java 6 that I also had installed, and the default.

Goto /Applications/Utilities/Java/Java Preferences

Every year our family has a reunion in beautiful Durango, CO. Chris Park is where we typically camp because it can house a large number of campers (and we have a huge family).

USDA Forest Service - Christ Park

It's been a while since I've used Ant. My last company was heavy into Maven 1.x and 2.x so I was detached from the Ant world for a few years.

Now I'm consulting at a new gig and was tasked with integrating Cobertura as my first project. I tried to simply run the junit tests from my shell and got the (no so) familiar


Build Failed
Could not create task or type of type: junit


Today I was trying to adapt some legacy code into a new web application using Spring 2.5. It took me a while to figure out the issue and I finally found the answer. As the name implies, a static factory has 1 goal, to return an object (hence the term factory). Our legacy code was using a static initializer to create a connection to a JavaSpace. The code looked like this:


public static final void init ( String spaceUrl )
{
... do init stuff here...
}


It's been quite a few years since I've had to actually go to formal interviews. Over the past few weeks I had to finally suit up and start that fun experience again. During my journey I came across a few interesting, and some odd interview questions. \

I was installing Capistrano (http://www.capify.org/) on my Ubuntu 8.10 system today using the recommended gem installation.

$ sudo gem install -y capistrano

This worked fine, and output the following

Successfully installed net-ssh-2.0.11
Successfully installed net-sftp-2.0.2
Successfully installed net-scp-1.0.2
Successfully installed net-ssh-gateway-1.0.1
Successfully installed highline-1.5.0
Successfully installed capistrano-2.5.5
6 gems installed

So what's the trick trying to login into a Windows VM (in my case Windows 2003 Server) using my Ubuntu 8.10 desktop. For those of you using Ubuntu desktop with Firefox and trying to log into VMWare via the web you've already discovered that with the Firefox plugin uses Ctrl+Alt+Delete to get you back out to the host from with in the VMWare Remote Console.

From what I've found around the web it appears to be a key binding issue. The trick is to use the Del (the .) on the number pad. This allows you to send the Ctrl+Alt+Del command to the console so Windows let's you authenticate.

Finally!

http://technofriends.in/2008/12/23/how-to-sync-your-ipod-with-multiple-c...

I’m jotting this down for my own notes. I’ve hunted numerous web sites out there and found a lot of great references. This one is clear, concise, and is all I need to refresh when I forget:

Page Life Cycle Events

• Page_Init
  The server controls are loaded and initialized from the Web form’s view state. This is the first step in a Web form’s life cycle.
• Page_Load
  The server controls are loaded in the page object. View state information is available at this point, so this is where you put code to change control settings or display text on the page.

I ran into a problem setting up a new dev environment today with ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS on Windows XP Pro. First I had to set permissions for the IUSR_ and IWAN_ on the C:\Inetpub directory. This didn’t work when I tried to render the web page. I kept getting the following error:

Server Application Unavailable

The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is currently unavailable. Please hit the “Refresh” button in your web browser to retry your request.