links for 2007-11-21

MKSoft Insurrection Project – Subversion web interface Cute pun. This is a web interface to a subversion repository server (tags: programming software opensource scm tools web subversion svn) sventon – subversion repository browser Pure java subversion web interface (tags: java subversion software scm) Comparison: Subversion Web Access Apps A bit out of date. But some … [Read more…]

Refactoring Dynamic Code

This has been one of my concerns all along. The claim is that “enough testing” will eliminate the need for the compiler to do static checking at compile time. http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=217080 Frank Sommers seems to be saying otherwise… in the long run. So, I’m feeling justified in my decision to stick with Java, where I gain … [Read more…]

links for 2007-11-17

rsync – a fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool Despite the (r) in the name, one of the most useful features is local file sync. I’ve used this to create a subversion working directory for a tool that doesn’t like .svn directories in it’s own directory structure. (tags: software configuration source development synchronization)

links for 2007-11-16

CSSToXSLFO I’m producing some XHTML documents from some XML, and I want to print them all. There doesn’t seem to be a good, free “Batch HTML Print” option around. There are a few HTML to PDF converters, but they all have limitations. I’m hoping this plus FOP to PDF (tags: html pdf css fop xsl-fo … [Read more…]

links for 2007-11-15

Behaviour : Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours Seems to me this is the way to go. Replace all those onXxxx and scrip tags with a single script tag and a “behavior style sheet”. (tags: javascript css html development) PmWiki | Cookbook / ShowHide I want to “show” all the initially hidden elements when … [Read more…]

links for 2007-11-03

Google Research Publication: Chubby Distributed Lock Service I’ve got to coordinate activities between a group of nodes, and not looking forward to implementing my own mini-distributed locking setup. But this looks complex and I don’t see a link to source… (tags: distributed locking programming software) DistributedLockServer – Lucene-hadoop Wiki Another possible locking implementation… but it … [Read more…]