Proj-X

Understanding and managing IT workers

Kelvin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:36:23 +0000

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:

The unspoken truth about managing geeks

Windows 7 + iPhone Bluetooth

Kelvin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:32:09 +0000

Well we finally received access to the Windows 7 Pro RTM, personally I’ve been running an RC for several month and think its the most polished version of Windows yet, but many people will find it difficult to adjust to.

I’ve ran into a few issue with getting its Bluetooth support working with my iPhone, it appeared with the yellow triangle exclamation icon, not sure why, but this can be fixed by right clicking the phone icon, going to properties -> services and unticking the Wireless iAP option, click ok, right-click on the phone icon and select Connect using -> Access point.

Domain name change

Kelvin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:29:41 +0000

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

Kelvin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:59:41 +0000

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 v1.2.0 … come and get it!

Kelvin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:50:18 +0000

Transfer v1.2.0 is available for download from here, please be aware that the new version requires you have the DLTK is installed.

UPDATE: Note that I developed, compiled and tested this release of Transfer with Eclipse 1.4.5 and PDT 2.1 available from here and it works! if you experience problems with Transfer and would like me to fix it, then you need to provide precise details on what your running and how I can recreate the problem, if you don’t, then your requests will be ignored.

So, please let me know if you have any problem, and don’t forget to leave precise details.

Proj-x Transfer fix

Kelvin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:38:36 +0000

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.

Eclipse losing track of files?

Kelvin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:11:45 +0000

One of the most annoying things about Eclipse is the way it manages files and will refuse to open anything which has been edited outside of the IDE, typically it will throw a ResourceException with the message showing “Resource is out of sync with the file system”.

This problem can be alleviated by either right clicking on the file and selecting “Refresh”, or if you find it happening frequently, Go to Preferences -> Workspace and enable the “Refresh Automatically” option, do note it appears Eclipse updates on a timer, not when you open the file, so it may take a while to detect the change. (You got a better method? or am I wrong? leave a comment and let me know).

Having problems with Eclipse 3.4.2 + Proj-X Transfer?

Kelvin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:55:19 +0000

Transfer is currently incompatible with Eclipse v3.4.2, there seems to be a problem where it registers its menu items and settings page. I’ll look into this as soon as I can, in the mean time please stick with v3.4.1 or remove Transfer until I can get this fixed.

Sites now running PHP5.3 Beta

Kelvin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:20:48 +0000

Apologies to anybody who had problems accessing the site in the past day or so, I’ve upgraded the server to PHP5.3 BETA, this will allow me to test namespaces etc.

My first attempt didn’t go so well, it seems MySQLND doesn’t play nicely at the moment (perhaps MySQL needs some separate configuration for this).

Install Linux from USB

Kelvin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:15:08 +0000

For anybody looking to install Linux from a USB stick, I would recommend taking a look at http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/, it worked a treat for me with Ubuntu server 8.04.