Wednesday, December 17, 2008

If programming languages were religions...

I look through Slashdot.com and noticed that it pointed to a very interesting blog where the post compares different programming languages to different religions in the world. Read and take a good laugh :)

http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-religions.html

Adjusting PATH variable for Java

I was fiddling with the adjustment of the PATH variable in my Win XP for my Java JDK. I pointed the PATH variable to the /bin of my latest JDK and nothing else. So it's "PATH=C:\Program Files\jdk1.6.0_01\bin" if you put it in text form. Next , I tried to do a 'ping' and an 'ipconfig' in my cmd the next day and it says that ping / ipconfig is not recognized as whatever internal command type of error. I noticed that system32 is also using PATH so I set "PATH=C:\Program Files\jdk1.6.0_01\bin;C:\Windows\system32" and now , you have Java's JDK and system32 using PATH ... happy ending. I can do my Java stuff and ping and ipconfig.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Songbird , H2 jarSmall

I was reading through LifeHacker as usual and caught some news on Songbird. I was thinking to test out yet another Mozilla product , Songbird . I was expecting high quality product but when I finished installing Songbird just a while ago, it crashed upon launching up for the first time and I restarted it but again , it crashed everytime it tried to launch. Well... too bad for this Mozilla product... I doubt how ready Songbird is , so I uninstalled it without a second thouht.

I have been looking for media players capable of playing and accessing podcasts but sadly, I haven't found any other than iTunes. I have been avoiding iTunes and WMP for a long time since I think these 'commercial' products aren't of my taste. Another thing of Songbird that put me off when i was viewing it's screenshot was how similar it's GUI was when compared to iTunes.

I have nothing against iTunes or WMP but things that are too 'commercial' and 'Big Boys' who have reputation of not being open or are open just to avoid some lawsuit from some organization just puts me off ... my personal opinion...

Anyway, thanks to Thomas Mueller for helping me with figuring out why I can't build H2, finally got it to work. It seems that Java doesn't automatically set the PATH for you and you have to do it yourself which figures why my Java act weirdly when I tried to build H2 jarSmall.

Finally got myself a H2 jarSmall and now I can proceed with my stuff that requires a jarSmall H2.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Manutil in Makagiga

Lately, I have been working on manutil (Man utility aka Man) for Makagiga whenever time presents itself an opportunity to sit down and do the coding. The development of Man was pretty quick and I have got the basic functions working but they are still not ready for the wild yet. There are other stuff to do, including making Man able to survive in the wild where 'abuses' would be thrown at it.

Just a quick explanation on what Man is... It's simply a manual page like those on Unix OSes (e.g. Linux). Anyway, I got my inspiration while playing with the Man pages on my Linux Fedora OS and thought that it would be interesting and useful to equip Makagiga with one and also, I am a Makagiga user.

Man would not be exactly the same as those Linux Man since it's going to be implemented using Java on a Makagiga platform...not some OS... and plus... I like to give my Man utility a twist and flavouring it with my own style.

I made it a console base since Man is supposed to be a console based app and plus.. it looks geeky :P

Anyway, I scanned through some tech news and there wasn't much thing that is interesting to discuss... so laters...