Over Christmas, when I couldn’t tolerate the withdrawal of internet and computer abstinence any longer, I decided to investigate how to write a packet dissector for Wireshark. Wireshark (nee Ethereal) is an open source network protocol analyser with an extensive set of protocol dissectors and a plug-in architecture for writing your own. Having downloaded and verified a fresh build, [...]
For the past few months the migration tool has been developed as an Eclipse plug-in as well as a stand-alone wizard. The reasons behind this were to make use of the Eclipse development and runtime environments and with Apache maven and ant create a process for the release lifecycle. Fortunately and timely Google donated WindowBuilder, recognized [...]
In recent development to improve/overhaul the Ingres rpm installation and set-up some of the set-up process was moved from the rpm packages into the installation RC script and a %posttrans scriptlet was used to perform some of the preparatory set-up steps. Unfortunately, the %posttrans scriptlet was not being triggered on some versions of Linux and [...]
Trying to debug projects made using Apache Maven has not been something achieved with any success. Having been working at the periphery of the Hibernate source and submitting simple patches for the Ingres dialect and some tests I am now in a position to start debugging some of the issues discovered whilst testing. I have [...]
Today, Hibernate 3.5.0 completes its development cycle and is announced as Final.
Another session packed day kicked off by a rousing keynote from Robert C. Martin of Object Mentor Inc. entitled “Software Professionalism and the Art of Saying “No”. Robert touted a common sense approach to developing tests and software (and the order is important here). Being in the software industry for so long most/all of his [...]
This morning saw a keynote presentation from Jeet Kaul (formally of Sun) and Steve Harris of Oracle. With the new developments in the pipeline for Java SE and Java EE it seems that Oracle’s Java is set to be all pervasive in devices ranging from the mobile platform and beyond to desktop and server. Demonstrations [...]
It has been a busy opening day at EclipseCon 2010. I have been able to attend some lightning talks (~25 minutes) where a synopsis of a later presentation is given. Gives you an idea of the forthcoming content. The first session of the day involved an introductory presentation on the e4rover challenge – translation, control [...]
Way back in May last year I experimented with some IMA tables that showed data types and operators defined in the DBMS. Further poking around and a table for a list of the function instances is available, drop ima_dbms_fis; \p\g register table ima_dbms_fis ( server varchar(64) not null not default is ‘SERVER’, id integer4 not [...]
On some distributions of Linux when running Eclipse and applications derived from Eclipse the buttons on dialogs whilst accepting clicks do not seem to do anything. After some minutes of frustration and even more minutes searching for an answer on Google I found this https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=291257 Any way the temporary solution is to set the environment [...]