I just moved the Subversion repository that I created on my Windows box some time ago over to my Gentoo box (actually the same box, just a different dual-boot OS, now that I’m phasing out Windows in favor of Gentoo Linux). This was a very smooth operation, and I’m pretty impressed with the way Gentoo’s Apache configuration already accounts for Subversion (which is generally exposed as a WebDAV repository using an extension of the Apache mod_dav module)....
I just had a funny debugging experience. I had added a new Ant target with a Java task, but when I tried to execute it Ant complained with the following error message: The <java> type doesn’t support the “classame” attribute As I didn’t see anything obvious, I did what I often do in those cases: I copied and pasted the error message into Google. This time there were no search results, but Google responded with a helpful message nonetheless:...
Since I installed Gentoo Linux a few weeks ago, I have made it a habit to check the ATI website almost every day to see if a new driver has been released that supports my AMD64 processor as well as the XOrg (instead of XFree) server. The default driver works fine in 2D, but it does not support 3D acceleration. Today, my search was finally rewarded. Here is the updated ATI driver....
Here is a Great article on Gentoo Linux. It includes a lot of information about Gentoo’s package management system, including an overview of how to build your own or customize existing ebuild files. It also has some very interesting points on how a corporate environment could benefit from Gentoo, which is different from the usual preconception about Gentoo being better suited as a desktop OS. Of course most of the comments by other users on that page degrade into the usual Linux distro flame wars, but there are some interesting ones....
I finally got an opportunity to work with web services. I had of course read about these in the past and in fact implemented web service like applications prior to the emergence of SOAP, but I had never really had a chance to actually work with web services on a project. On my current project, I am using Apache Axis to expose some of our functionality to third parties, a prime example of what web serices are good for....