Author Archives: ron

Using IntelliJ IDEA

Posted on March 27, 2008 by ron

I’ve started using Intellij IDEA as an IDE. I’ve always heard good things about it but stuck with Eclipse because it’s pretty good, and the standard used by most clients I’ve worked with. What got me to try it out … Continue reading →

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OpenID, Yahoo, and other news

Posted on January 21, 2008 by ron

Recent OpenID developments… At the end of this month, Yahoo will be supporting OpenID. Any Yahoo user that chooses to enable the feature will be able to use their Yahoo ID on sites that support OpenID. The announcement doesn’t mention … Continue reading →

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Handy Java utility: jarexplorer

Posted on December 16, 2007 by ron

Wanted to give kudos to a handy little Java utility I started using: jarexplorer. It’s a Swing-based app that indexes the contents of jar files found in an entire directory structure, and lets you search for classes and files within … Continue reading →

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Using Mercurial

Posted on November 25, 2007 by ron

As I posted earlier, I’ve been looking at some of the decentralized version control systems and started using Mercurial. There are several decentralized VCSs, including Bazaar, GIT, Mercurial, and others. Out of the decentralized VCSs, Mercurial and GIT seemed to … Continue reading →

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pyAntTasks moved to Mercurial

Posted on October 26, 2007 by ron

I’ve started using the Mercurial version control system lately and switched over some projects over to it from Subversion. Since Google Code doesn’t yet support hosting Mercurial repositories, pyAntTasks has stayed on Subversion. Until now that is – I set … Continue reading →

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This blog is now an OpenID

Posted on October 4, 2007 by ron

[update: when I switched to WordPress, I made http://rpstechnologies.net/ron my OpenID page - see that URL instead of this blog for the OpenID headers] This blog is now my OpenID. OpenID is a decentralized single sign-on system for the web. … Continue reading →

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Version control systems: Going decentralized

Posted on September 3, 2007 by ron

I’ve used a number of version control systems over time, starting out with SCCS and RCS. I used CVS for many years for my own work and for client projects where CVS could be used. For the last 4 years … Continue reading →

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iPhone hacks

Posted on July 30, 2007 by ron

Well, it looks like hackers have been hard at work on the iPhone since it came out and have managed to hack the iPhone to gain access to the filesystem, alter the iPhone’s internals, and to launch custom programs. This … Continue reading →

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Web development for iPhone

Posted on July 6, 2007 by ron

Apple has posted guidelines for developing web applications for the iPhone. Apple has not provided an SDK for developing applications, so for now this is the only way to create applications for the iPhone. The guidelines tell us how to … Continue reading →

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What MDA needs: a user’s perspective

Posted on June 30, 2007 by ron

One of my areas of interest in software development is model driven architecture and model driven software development. I’ve successfully applied MDA to software projects and have seen the benefits first hand. Although MDA/MDSD tools and techniques can bring several … Continue reading →

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