Monthly Archives: February 2007

Microsoft Rant - Virtual Office/VMWare and IE6

Why is everything Microsoft related so freaking difficult??
Today I go to download Virtual PC because I need to test an application in IE6 and since you can’t download IE6 and IE7 on the same machine (without some issues) I decide to try Virtual PC…
I prefer VMWare but I found a post on their site that [...]

ColdFusion Ant Resources

Sean just posted “More Ant Goodness” and I thought it might be useful to have these Ant links in one spot so I decided at lunch to compile a list of ColdFusion related Ant links.
I’ve posted it here on my wiki - ColdFusion/Ant Resources.
If you have additional links - please leave them in the comments!

Automated Subversion Reports w/StatSVN and Ant

Alistair Davidson recently blogged about StatSvn - a reporting tool for Subversion. From their site:
“StatSVN retrieves information from a Subversion repository and generates various tables and charts describing the project development.”
Some of the reports it will produce:

Timeline for the lines of code
Lines of code for each developer
Activity by Clock time
Authors Activity
Author activity per Module
Stats [...]

Lazy Tool - AutoHotKey

I've been in love with the dynamic snippets in CFEclipse but was looking for something that would do something similar in any program. I dug around and found AutoHotKey (Windows only).
From their site: AutoHotkey is a free, open-source utility for Windows. With it, you can:

Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse [...]

I Think I Just Wet My Pants

( how is this code related you ask? Well Paul is a GREAT Photoshopper... )

Oracle 10g and SQL Developer

At work I've been using Oracle's SQL Developer lately to do my database work. It has been working great until this week when we started working on migrating to Oracle 10g. I installed the new 10g client on my workstation and while I could still use SQL Developer to connect to my old [...]

Oracle, SQL*Plus and Ant

To continue the Ant theme - I'm working with Oracle and I need to run a lot of scripts to build tables and populate data and after doing this a few times manually I figured there had to be a way to use Ant - it does everything!
After searching around a bit I [...]

Using ANT While Hiding Your SVN Password

I've been messing around with ANT (within Eclipse) to push my projects out to our development server. I've got a build script now that checks out the latest code from our repository, cleans it up a bit and then copies it to the server.
One thing which has bothered me is in order for the [...]

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