Atlassian Eclipse Jira Plugin

The Atlassian eclipse Jira Mylyn plugin directions are somewhat confusing. fro eclipse 3.5 you need to use the non-weekly update url of: http://update.atlassian.com/atlassian-eclipse-plugin/e3.4 For Eclipse 3.6 which has Mylyn 3.4 and not Mylyn 3.3. you need to use the weekly update url of: http://update.atlassian.com/atlassian-eclipse-plugin/weekly/e3.4/site.xml but on that page there is no mention of this, I [...]

PHP Build For Testing

One of the challenges in the increase in usable MVC frameworks is that each framework wants to  use its own unit test framework that is slightly different form PHPUnit. Yes, some CI servers have plugins to integrate those test xml report s in phpunit format but are often not updated depending upon whether they were [...]

Is DZone Web Builder dying?

Even though most of the world is recovering financially, we have entered a climbing surge of innovation in the web scripting space to whereas webprise has replaced high cost and large development time heavy enterprise java. Even PHP can now do daemons and gtk interfaces. Do not get me wrong, news on some areas of [...]

Beyond TechCrud

There is this interplay between programming technologies for different platforms( Desktop, enterprise, Mobile etc) and an interplay between different computer languages and tools that escapes being covered or even discussed in the normal SEO-linkbait rush to have something noticed in this real-time atmosphere of technical blogging. A chance to do something different in that I [...]

Chrome Migration

So I have been doing a migration of my tools from Mozilla FireFox to Google’s chrome Browser. I only had one plugin that was crashing and once I disabled that no more crashes. This is what is showing for memory use: That is about at 350 Megabytes about half what FF would use with the [...]

Android Fragmentation

Image via Wikipedia What Google has attempted to prevent seems to be happening. Several OEMs are developing Android Market stores and several OEMs have developed closed additions to the Android OS in the form of new UIs. Not to metnion that other set of mobile operators that want Android without wifi. We still do not [...]