Author Archives: Andy Dingfelder

About Andy Dingfelder

Andy has been working with technology for over 30 years. Full bio is available at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dingfelder He lives in Wellington, New Zealand with his wife and two daughters.

Day 2 of 30 (in 30 days of Geek) – Preferred programming language?

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Andy Dingfelder

This is Day 2 of 30 (in 30 days of Geek)… Day 02 – Preferred programming language? This is an easy one for me: Java Why is Java the best choice for me? Java is portable – I write applications … Continue reading →

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Day 1 of 30 (in 30 days of Geek) – Why do you consider yourself a geek?

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Andy Dingfelder

This is Day 1 of 30 (in 30 days of Geek)… Why do you consider yourself a geek? Wikipedia says: The word geek is a slang term, with different meanings ranging from “a computer expert or enthusiast” to “a carnival … Continue reading →

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30 days of geek

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Andy Dingfelder

Recently read Jethro Carr’s post about 30-days of geek (http://www.jethrocarr.com/2010/10/17/30-days-of-geek/) and thought it sounded fun. So… here we go… The next 30 posts will be about geek-y-ness 🙂 Day 01 – Why do you consider yourself a geek? Day 02 … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 10, 2010 by Andy Dingfelder

I want Dell’s latest tablet PC, the Dell Looking Glass. This latest iPad rival looks to be a larger-sized version of the Dell Streak / Dell Mini 5, depending on which rumoured name you want to attach to their forthcoming … Continue reading →

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compiling windows apps on linux

Posted on July 25, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

now that we successfully used cmake to compile a linux app (in the last article), we will now try and compile it for windows. I am doing this on Gentoo linux, so your mileage may vary if you used a … Continue reading →

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Cross platform development with the Eclipse CDT

Posted on July 24, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

So, you want to create an application that can un under both Linux and Windows? This is my experiment trying to do just that… Lets see if the Eclipse CDT is robust to do cross platform development! Step 1: Install … Continue reading →

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Installing eclipse 3.3 on Gentoo

Posted on July 14, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

Today was the day to get eclipse going on Gentoo. I downloaded the latest version (3.3) and dropped it into /opt/eclipse. I fired it up and got: # ./eclipse * run-java-tool is not available for sun-jdk-1.6 on i686 * IMPORTANT: … Continue reading →

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Getting ready for eclipse on Gentoo

Posted on July 12, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

Getting ready for eclipse 3.3 on Gentoo, I first need to get my system configured to use a more recent version of Java instead of the default 1.4. Here is a site dedicated to gentoo java: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/ the first thing … Continue reading →

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moving to linux

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

Well, I finally made the decision to move to Linux from Windows XP. I have decided upon using Gentoo as my platform of choice. Gentoo seems to be the most cutting edge, as it supports installations via compiling everything from … Continue reading →

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Eclipse mylyn mantis integration

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

I set up mantis connect today on our server… it was very easy: just drop the “mc” directory from the archive (and it’s subdirectory) to the Mantis root directory. do not use the distribution from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mantisconnect as it does not … Continue reading →

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