M2Eclipse plugin is the second maven integration plugin for eclipse I tried and it seems it works quite well -- even maven console is working extremly well within eclipse. The only drawback I found this time is lack of working integration with latest (from callisto update site) webtools platform, but it is more a maven2 drawback than the plugin...

From thursday I'm lying in bed feeling very sick so I have time to play with latest snapshots of maven2, its plugins and eclipse plugin for it. So far I can tell that I'm impressed, just invoking mvn clean install deploy:deploy and viola! Everything is simple and almost works. I ran upon some difficulties at the beginning: MavenIde for...

For all jython users (if you didn't already know it) -- there is a nice interactive console avaliable (with autocompletion and command history). You can get it from http://dev.artenum.com/projects/jyconsole. It would be nice to have similar functionality included in pyDev Eclipse plugin :-)

Two screenshots of some minor improbable glitches of software (you know -- those things that happen only one in lifetime and are really hard to replicate in developement environment :->) that I have used for past few days. First: Windows Explorer Search bar: Second one was when I tried to access my Ta-Da list today: I got a Ta-Da list which I...

Today I have stumbled upon a blog post titled "… And what about SealedObject and GuardedObject?" and as a quick exercise I have implemented spoken feature in AspectJ. I didn't write an annotation processor because it was quicker (for me) to go with AspectJ and besides APT builder for Eclipse 3.1.2 is not working for me at the moment. So...

Probably You have heard this a while before but just for reference: Here you can download Sun Studio Creator 2 if you are a Sun Developers Network member (registration if free AFAIR). Personally I just wonder if they fixed the unability to compile with "-source 1.5" which was a major PITA in EA1/EA2 releases? (still downloading on my...

If you need FreeRadius with EAP/TLS support in Debian Stable (sarge), then look at this page where you can get a proper patch to enable it: http://www.wapu.org/projects.php?id=freeradius-eaptls. I have made those changes myself but using mentioned patch should be quicker than editing debian/rules, debian/control and installing libssl-dev...

When looking for a game for New Year's Day (see last post ;-)) I stumbled on continuation of RoboCode -- RoboCodeNG.The first thought I got when I first saw robot team API was: "Wow! How much neater could computer science laboratories be if we could implement byzantene agreement solutions in RoboCode instead of PVM!" ;-) Some details about this...

For everyone who spends New Year's Day in Home with firends I want to recommend a little game I had apt-get'ed today: Jump n' Bump. A game for 2-4 playes who controls a cute little bunnies who jump on a screen wide environment with goal to crush your friends. I have played for 3h today with my wife and I can say only "Happy jumping!" :)

I'm putting ashesh on my head for not blogging almost 2 months, life flowed between my hands too fast in this time. But at last We (Natalie and I) have almost arranged our new home (we have even a living christmas tree) and it became very warm place. Now I should have more time to play with Java and blog about some interesting things (I hope)...

For past two years I was studying on Poznan University of Technology (Poland), Institute of Computer Science (with speciality profile: Computer Networks and Distributed Systems). I have passed my final exam last monday, so I have now a Master degree. Large part of my Master Thesis was an implementation of File System with builtin semantic...

To provide a custom component docked into statusbar of NetBeans platform/IDE ( actually I'm using it only as a platform :>) ) just create class implementing org.openide.awt.StatusLineElementProvider. It is a simple one-method interface: public abstract interface StatusLineElementProvider { public abstract Component getStatusLineElement(); } And...

penguins on our weeding cake. Sorry for not updating this blog but for past two months things ware happening faster than ever for me. On 13th of august I have got married with Unbeliveable Woman ( She's a university teacher, teaching statistical physics, a *nix lover, sysadmin and a programer ). Few days earlier we have moved to a small old/new...

If you are using Eclipse and Luntbuild just get luntbuild plugin for eclipse -- it rocks :-)

TechEd 2005 EMEA is just over, leaving me tired ( not exacly the event tired me, but the way back home; flying 2h from Amsterdam to Warsaw, spending over 1h on Warsaw Central Station to buy a ticket and standing 5h from Warsaw to Bydgoszcz in overfilled train; I just hate travelling when the holiday season opens ). There ware many interesting...