Dec 31, 2007

GIT: Starting using GIT as your SCM

I am a user of SVN and was a fan of it as well. But the following video demonstrated some requirements of SCM which I liked a lot Especially as I want to work distributed, offline, modular and essentially fast GIT came to me as a gift and I want to share it with everyone. This Tech talk from Linus actually convinced me to take a deep look at GIT.

Tags:  git

Dec 27, 2007

Retreiving all classes in a package

Straight to the point - I had to list all ReadOnly attributes for my domain objects as I had to list them in the office Wiki. I had several of them and doing that manually would be tiring (not to mention that I actually do not like documentation that much), I had to find a shortcut and only way is to use reflection; the next question was - how can I just simply mention the package and it will do the rest for me, so after Googling I could not find a solution to my liking so I thought of writing one myself and it took 10~15 minutes to come up with this piece of code.

Tags:  java

Dec 27, 2007

SMTP setting for GMail in Evolution

This post of mine involves the least technical depth probably :), it is mainly about configuring SMTP for GMail with Evolution mail client (not that it could not be figured from the image). As GMail users know GMail does not use the default SMTP port (25), the custom port number has to be mentioned in the configuration and though there is no field labelled as Port, but users can easily set the port number as I did.

Tags:  general

Dec 23, 2007

Modular project development - with Maven and GIT

For sometime I have been searching for a combination for Multi-Module project development with SCM and Project Build tool. After using and testing some tools I have settled GIT and Maven; actually honestly speaking I have quite impressed by GIT. Though the main repository for my projects will be either CVS and SVN because dev.java.net provides those only but the developers will be requested/encouraged to use GIT (through online collab) as their local/team SCM/VCS.

Tags:  project development ,  git ,  maven

Dec 17, 2007

NetBeans RCP development with Maven

I have been wanting to work with NetBeans RCP for quite some time now, but I felt that resources were lacking; then came along API changes for NetBeans 6.0 Platform and I felt there is a lot of improvement in it, along with its platform home, the excellent RCP book and Maven integration for plugin/suite/Rich Client Application development (I personally tested it whether it works or not and it does smoothly except that when I was reading it Figure 4 and Figure 6 were in opposite places), now I reckon NetBeans RCP as a force.

Tags:  netbeans rcp ,  netbeans