Understanding and managing IT workers
Anybody who works in IT or wants an insight into how IT Workers think, then I highly recommend the following article written by Jeff Ello:
Domain name change
I’ve always operated my email and website from different domains, I’ve now decided time to merge them under the projx.it, this will keep my email address simple but also keep the site name relevant. If you spot any broken links, please let me know.
MySQL HA
We’re currently in the process of splitting our websites out onto pairs of servers for High Availability, unfortunately MySQL is pretty poor when it comes to this, its replication facilities leave a lot to be desired and often fall out of sync. But there is a collection of scripts called Maatkit which can help fix this. Here’s a good tutorial http://blogama.org/node/39
Proj-x Transfer fix
I’ve finally had some free time to spend on fixing Transfer, it seems the problems were not caused by bugs, instead other plug-ins such as PDT (from v2 onwards) changed the way they’re implemented and started using the Eclipse DLTK (Dynamic Language Tool Kit) which meant Transfer no longer knew how to process requests from the new PHP Explorer (This was not a problem for me, as I use an older version of PDT).
Anyway, I will release a test version of Tranfer 1.2 shortly, note its not final, I intend to add more error checking and some default settings.
Please note the new version of Transfer required the DLTK be installed, I’ll add instructions for this when I release the test.
Proj-x Transfer v1.1.1 is now available
I’ve finally got some free time to update Proj-x Transfer, so these are the changes in version 1.1.0
- Keyboard shortcuts now work in the Editor, what ever your working on will be Queued/Uploaded/Downloaded.
- Added option to set PASV or ACTIVE transfer in the Project Properties.
- Fixed remote permissions bug which caused the plugin to constantly generate “Access Denied” error’s and eventually crash.
The latest version can be downloaded from the Transfer homepage
as with all things Eclipse, getting the Editor Shortcuts was a little tricky, I’ll save that for a later post.
UPDATE: After testing the update at work I found the Editor shortcuts didn’t work with PDT, so I’ve made a fix for this and released it as v1.1.1.
