OLAT 5.2 heading towards release
Good news for all OLAT users: the OLAT 5.2 development has officially been closed last friday and moved to a test branch. This means that the team is now intensively testing the release and updating missing translation keys and documentation to make.
The public release is scheduled for august 28th. You can help testing by installing the OLAT-5_2_x-BRANCH from the OLAT CVS and reporting issues to bugs.olat.org
Great Java API browser
What I think is the best thing you can do for API documentation is to let users comment the 'official' documents. This is now possible with a AJAX API viewer available at http://www.jdocs.com/.
But this is not the only cool thing about this API browser: it contains all the Java API's you need in your daily Java-live: JDK, hibernate, spring, log4j, ehcache, apache commons, all other apache libraries, groovy graisls, eclipse, lucene.... It's all in there, one consistene interfaces, with comments and free.
Really cool I think!
Dealing with encoding issues
or how to migrate OLAT from Windows to Linux
Porting an OLAT installation from a Windows to a Linux server can produce many encoding issues. Windows uses normally Windows-1252 AKA CP1252 encoding and Linux nowadays often uses UTF-8.
It is not possible to just move the files from the Windows server to the Linux server, filenames that contain äöü will all have ??? instead.
Read the entire article to learn what the common pitfalls are and how you can solve them.
It is not possible to just move the files from the Windows server to the Linux server, filenames that contain äöü will all have ??? instead.
Read the entire article to learn what the common pitfalls are and how you can solve them.
Must-have web developer software firebug
On Ajaxian a post got my attention about a Firefox plugin called Firebug. See this screencast (direct link to the mov file), be impressed and download it.
Steve Jobs would say that Firebugs is insanely great!
Steve Jobs would say that Firebugs is insanely great!
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Programmers
On technicat Philip Chu wrote an essay about delivering software projects on time. It's title 'Seven habits of highly effective programmers' refere to a book I red some years ago 'Seven habits of highly effective people' from Stephen R. Covey.