Archive for January, 2007
Subversion: Not Impossible, and Tall Buildings
Most buildings have one common design aspect: the exit is usually on the ground floor, and it is accessible by using the elevators or the stairs. But exiting a building that way is inconvenient if I want to leave a building Right Now, without delay. Achieving this is not impossible: I can simply [...]
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Bugzilla bugs: another big one squashed
I just got a notice this morning from Mozilla’s bugzilla, stating that bug 299405 has been fixed. I couldn’t be happier, as this bug was affecting Eclipse’s Bugzilla users as well. This happens when you submit an attachment and add CC addresses that aren’t recognized by Bugzilla.
The Mozilla team admits that the implemented [...]
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Inside MySpace
I read an interesting article on Baseline called Inside MySpace. It’s interesting (to me, anyway) to read about how sites struggle with scalability as the site grows very rapidly. I got a real shocker when I read about how they switched to SQL Server 2005 while it was still in Beta. Why? [...]
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More power for eclipse.org
We just added more power to eclipse.org: more CPU power and more bandwidth.
As I blogged previously, we received a fifth node server for the eclipse.org cluster and it should be in service today to help take its share of the eclipse.org load. We added this fifth node not because we needed more processing power [...]
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Remote editing using Eclipse DSDP/Target Management
Last year I was looking for an SSH/SCP/SFTP plugin for Eclipse. I figured it would be great to connect to my favourite Linux servers using Eclipse so that I can edit and transfer files directly from within Eclipse itself, over a secure channel. Back then I tried a couple of plugins but nothing worked good. [...]
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Phoenix themes for 2007: moving forward
On our last Phoenix call of 2006, we came up with the list of themes for 2007. These themes will be the focal points of our work on the Eclipse website(s) this year.
The list of themes is on the Phoenix wiki, but I’ll paste it here for your reading convenience:
Ease of Use / usability
EclipseLive
Cooler look
Reliability
Common [...]
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