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.

first thoughts about eclipse 3.3

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

After my first full week of using Eclipse (having moved away from JBuilder) I thought I would list some of my thoughts: The visual editor sucks. Jbuilder 2005/6 and Netbeans have eclipse beat here. I hope this area improves soon. … Continue reading →

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abandoning jbuilder, going to eclipse

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

With a heavy heart, I am now offficially abandoning JBuilder, and moving to Eclipse. I will spend the next month playing with Eclipse 3.3 while it is in the final stages prior to release. I am currently using 3.3m3 The … Continue reading →

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what is going on here

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

after reporting my issues connecting to xplanner from jbuilder (adding a task repository) I got an email from codegear support. The support tech (Chee Wee Chua) told me: From the main menu, access Window, Preferences, Team, CVS, Proxy Settings. Set … Continue reading →

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xplanner issues connecting

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

When I try and create a task repository using xplanner from the IDE, and enter what I think is a valid url, name and pwd, I get the followin g error msg: The supplied credentials are invalid nested exception is: … Continue reading →

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project assist stacks

Posted on May 5, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

Because of install issues with projectAssist (it would not successfully install bugzilla or xplanner) I manually installed all the components, including: Tomcat 5.5.23 Apache 2.2.4 Mysql 5.0.37 Perl 5.8.8.817 (ActiveState) Liferay 4.2.1 Continuum 1.0.3 Xplanner 0.7b Bugzilla 3.0 Subversion 1.4.3 … Continue reading →

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ProjectAssist Installation Errors (part 4)

Posted on April 12, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

Because of install issues with ProjectAssist (it would not successfully install Bugzilla or Xplanner) I manually installed all the components, including: Tomcat 5.5.23 Apache 2.2.4 Mysql 5.0.37 Perl 5.8.8.817 (ActiveState) Liferay 4.2.1 Continuum 1.0.3 Xplanner 0.7b Bugzilla 3.0 Subversion 1.4.3 … Continue reading →

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ProjectAssist Installation Errors (part 3)

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

Moving along, I decided to try the ProjectAssist install on a different machine, which we will be using for a development server, instead of doing it on my standalone XP workstation. Maybe the installer will work better on this environment. … Continue reading →

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ProjectAssist Installation Errors (part 2)

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

Having determined the cause of the maven issues, I moved on and cleaned up my system and restarted the install. I then got perl errors, which the log listed as: (13:22:49:671) Installing C:borlandprojectassistPerlsitelibNetLDAPExtensionWhoAmI.pm (13:22:49:671) Perl install: processing INSTALL component AppConfig… … Continue reading →

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ProjectAssist Installation Errors (part 1)

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

After concluding that ProjectAssist does not like “partial installs”, I decided to go with the complete install. I cleaned up the XP install (removed apache, tomcat, mysql etc and made sure there were no registry entries or services) and fired … Continue reading →

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ProjectAssist Administration Notes

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

In the continuing saga of attempting to get ProjectAssist working, I spent the last week trying to get my “development stack” configured. I would have to say that at the moment, I am not yet impressed. The idea behind using … Continue reading →

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