General

Open-source

Couple of days ago, I had a very refreshing talk with some bright brains about Opensource (and other issues). It was interesting to meet up with ppl who appreciate Opensource as a mean of doing business, and as a way of (feasibly) creating reliable solutions. I’m looking forward to more talks (I’ll keep readers posted).

Netbeans Again

I’m going back to NetBeans. One year ago I ditched NetBeans and went for eclipse (partly becuase of speed, partly because of interface), but the lack of opensource simple JSP editors had made me take the decision of going back to netbeans (hope I won’t regret it).NetBeans comes bundled with its own JSP editors and built in web container...

The future is here (if you’re in Japan)

While store shopping, ever wondered how much that book, CD, gadget… cost on Amazon? Now, according to a Gizmodo article (slashdotted here), if you’re in Japan, you can easily know the price of that item by photographing its barcode via your cellphone (equipped with freely downloadable software), and send its info to Amazon.co.jp to know its price, and buy...

Changes to my Blog

Recent changes: Background title image (sunset.jpg): The picture was taken during September 2004 in Alexandria, Egypt. The beach is Aida beach (yes, the same name as that of the opera). Rearrangements and Additions to the right navigation bar and in the CSS. Recent Comments Shortcut based on Euxx’s velocity code (I guess I’ve already started wtih with Velocity scripting)....

Eclipse going back to Netbeans

I’m still so tired having no decent JSP plugins. Eclipse’s Web Tools Platform (M1) is not working with Eclipse (3.1 M3) or at least I can’t set it up to work correctly (it can’t even detect any changes even with “-clean” flag). LOMBOZ was working on 2.1 and could be working with 3.0, but not with 3.1M3 (as far...

W:Bloggar – Cool Tool

This is my first post using W:Bloggar(Well sort of – I had to post it first to the blog, then publish it from there – WBloggar gave me a type mismatch error). What a wonderful tool, It simply rocks (just hope it works 🙂 What else could one need? (mmmm…. an eclipse plugin for JSP editing? 🙂 Thanks to...

Eclipse and JSPs plugins

I’m fed up with trying to get an Eclipse plugin for JSP editing. I just want a simple opensource plugin that would help me with JSP editing. LOMBOZ won’t work with Eclipse 3.1 (mined the mailing lists, forums with no chance/time to get it to work). Others do not provide any decent functionalities. I will try the Web Tools...

Wonderful CSS

One of my new found hobbies: admiring various CSS designs at CSS Vault, CSS Zen Gardens and CSS Beauty.Firefox nifty developer’s plugin, Web Developer Extension helps me dissects those designs.