Archive for the ‘TODO’ Category

ASP.NET

Monday, May 14th, 2007

I need to show some ASP.NET example work. Ok, I have a proxy from apache to my XP box. And I have IIS set up. I can serve index.htm “HELLO”, why can I not get an asp page showing. No doubt I need to configure to serve ASP. Ok, not sure but maybe it was the reboot? Nope - ISS won’t serve an empty file apparently. I needed the “Good Morning” text to be visible. Now I need a simple ASP example.
ASPX is the file extension for an ASP.NET page. This is in fact the successor to ASP.

Expect another tool to learn

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

I’m going over what I hope is a fool proof development install procedure for a large project. I need to include specific versions of gcc, and I think it might be nice to run the gcc tests, since all of this is automated anyway. Which brought me to expect. Sounds like I would do well to know this tool, and possibly it will be useful in the testing of the very project I’m working on.

While writing up the plan I have been assuming we would use svn. I really like svn, but it may be that git is better suited as one of the difficult constraints I have is supporting development on air gapped machines. One comparison note appears here. A long paper on Distributed (git) vs. Centralized (svn) development appears here.

Java const

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

It’s been mentioned elsewhere, but I will mention it here. Java needs const; and it should work just like it does in C++. Some people will tell you that final suffices, but it does not.

Look into where I should complain.

David Tribble has a complete exposition on what const should look like in Java here.

Very Large Eclipse Projects

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

At work we have a large project. Possibly the most complex I’ve been involved in with respect to organizational issues. A number of groups are involved, all trying to build the main software product, as well as integrate their own software. Also, the product in development has a number of dependencies that really need to be managed in an automated way because we can not depend on each vendor to download the correct version of all the tools in the tool chain. In fact I really do not trust them to download, configure, build, and install gcc correctly.

So the question is, can I use Eclipse in a platform independent way to manage dependencies that include the gcc compiler, gdb, xerces, libitt(?), and the project code itself?

Of course it needs to work with svn and not actually depend on each vendor being willing to use Eclipse and CDT.

What I really want for myself is to be able to use Eclipse for development and debugging, but to support the standard:
./configure
make
make install

I may do some experiments at home to see if I can get Eclipse to work as I desire.
It needs to work fast as well - I notice at work that Eclipse and Subeclipse plug-in seem to be really slow right now, and I do not know if this is because of the project organization, or if it can be fixed at all.

Get mod_jk working

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

I need to get mod_jk working so I can connect jsp to my apache server. The foolishness I’ve used involving Proxypass is just not going to work any longer.