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This all started as an effort to solve a problem in getting EasyEclipse to run on my new laptop. The error initially surfaced as a dialog full of JVM output when trying to run Eclipse.

After some digging (i.e. running Eclipse from a terminal) the error was pinpointed to a problem in the JRE install that comes with EasyEclipse. The error was:

Error: no `server’ JVM at `/usr/java/easyeclipse-lamp-1.2.1.3/jre/lib/i386/server/libjvm.so’.

Several searches on Google provided some others with the same problem, but no solutions. Since I’d wanted to run Eclipse under a newer VM anyway, I thought I’d try hacking and see if I could get Java 6 to work.

The solution was deceptively simple:

1. Change into the EasyEclipse directory.
2. Rename the jre directory (e.g.mv jre jre.old).
3. Link the JDK supplied JRE as the jre directory (e.g. ln -s /usr/java/latest/jre jre).

There is some output that comes to the terminal once Eclipse is started, but it doesn’t seem to affect performance at all. For all I know, it might even be normal output…

The OO programmer in me cringes. I ran into a bug last week in my DOM traversion code that was a bit tricky to solve. The hardest part was isolating the problem since the code had worked before some logic changes needed to be done. Once the problem was isolated I noticed that I kept [...]

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A recent post over at the 37signals blog got me thinking about the importance of careful planning in software development. The 37signals folk are quite strongly in favor of agile methodologies in software development, repeatedly pointing out the value of releasing software early without a full set of imaginable features.
The projects they work on are [...]

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If you’ve ever taken a look at either the Life of Jalo or Jermut, you’ve probably noticed that both sites create a daily page for the picture/strip. The way I’ve created it is that each file that needs to be shown is saved with the filename simply as the date (e.g. 20060428.jpg is today’s image [...]

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This has got to be the best bug report I’ve ever read (via Semantic World and Cyberspace). Take a look at the picture attached to the bug report.

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