Screaming Penguin

It has been a while since I have gotten on the soap box, but the way Americans seem to think everything is a "debate" just chaps my hide, so here goes.

Everything is NOT a debate. At least not in the sense that most people that question scientific evidence mean it. Here I am talking about global warming, evolution, vaccines, and every other such fact ignorant people choose not to "believe." It's not about belief jackass, it's about evidence, and science, and frankly, reality.

Here is an excellent video that does a much better job than I can, of explaining what I mean:

End of the year. Have run all the backups, and updated all the server software - including Drupal. Since it seems like the themes are finally catching up to 1.6 now (some decent ones), I am going to try out a few different things.

Really, I should roll my own using the blank slate style themes they provide (for example, Zen), but other things are higher priorities.

Hence you might see some different layouts and colors around here. Hopefully anything I decide on will be for the better, but everything I have tried thus far has good and bad, so who knows.

A few months back our team at the office decided to buckle down and create an automated repeatable build for a new Eclipse RCP app we are working on - because it's the right thing to do. What follows is most of an article I wrote back then, and never got around to publishing here. This article isn't polished but if I don't hit submit right now, it will never see the light of day again - and I think it *might* help someone somewhere sometime even in less than perfect form, so here goes.

(I updated the CODE and README for this project today - 01.07.2009, haven't really written a proper article yet, but README is better, and tested setup on multiple platforms, win32 and lin32. Check out the screen shot, Windows! Trying to make it nice for the people, since a few of you asked, even as much as I loathe said OS ;).)

My life with PDE Build

Fortunately, Eclipse comes with a lot of support for automating builds in terms of the PDE (Plug-In Development Environment) project which includes an Ant based set of Eclipse Plug-In build tools. Even though Eclipse provides this, we normally use Maven for our builds, so we set out to find a way to use Maven to manage Eclipse PDE. Hence the saga began . . .

I am seriously considering firing up an Atlanta GTUG. Why, you might ask? Ok, maybe you wouldn't ask that, but I asked myself, so I will answer my own question, whether you care or not ;).

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There are so many great Google technologies now - several that I use on a regular basis, there is enough content - and it's all very interesting stuff IMO. Just off the top of my head we have:

• Google Collections
• Guice
• GData APIs
• Android
• Wave
• GWT
• Google Ajax APIs
• AppEngine
• Google Code Hosting

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