Posted by Troy on July 13, 2009 under BlackBerry, IT, Mobile, Web | 
If you try installing the BlackBerry JDE Plug-in for Eclipse using the BlackBerry update site you will probably receive the following error:
An error occurred while collecting items to be installed Error closing the output stream for net.rim.EclipseJDE/org.eclipse.update.feature/1.0.0.67 on repository file:/C:/eclipse-SDK-3.4.1-win32/eclipse/. Error unzipping C:\DOCUME~1\scottt\LOCALS~1\Temp\net.rim.EclipseJDE_1.0.0.674162146521096327961.jar: Invalid zip file format Problems ...
There is a post on the BlackBerry support forum which says that the issue is related to their update site and that you need to download the plug-in:
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/javaappdev/javaeclipseplug.jsp
It is also important to make sure that you have a valid version of Eclipse. You need Ganymede 3.4 or 3.4.1. You can download it here.
I didn’t have much luck with the Full Installer. I downloaded one of the component packs instead and manually added the packages to Eclipse. When I ran the full installer the video display on my computer froze.
Go to Windows/Preferences once you have copied the correct files to the features and plugins folders in Eclipse.
Troy
Posted by Troy on April 12, 2008 under Google, IT, Microsoft |
Installing the Google App Engine SDK for Windows is fairly straightforward. You can download the SDK here. Before installing it on Windows make sure you have python 2.5 installed:
http://www.activestate.com/solutions/python/
It is a free download from ActiveState. The Google App Engine SDK install will fail if python is not installed first.
By default the installer will install python in C:\Python2.5\ . Once the install is complete double click on the Windows Installer application for the SDK (GoogleAppEngine.msi).
By default it installs the SDK in :
C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\
But I prefer to have it installed at:
C:\google_appengine
After you set the directory for the SDK the installer should complete. Now you can go to the command line and go to the google_appengine directory.
The SDK comes with a simple application called guestbook. To see if your installation succeeded type the following from the google_appengine directory:
> dev_appserver demos/guestbook
You will then be prompted to check for updates on startup. Respond “n” for the test. If you have a firewall like Windows OneCare you may be prompted to allow python.exe to access the Internet. Click “Allow this program”.
You can now access the guestbook application by going to your browser and entering:
http://localhost:8080
Type something in the text box and click the button to try out the guest book application.
Troy
Posted by Troy on April 5, 2008 under IT |
Usually I use CVS for version control but in the last few months I have started using SVN. In windows most user’s use SVN Tortoise because it works well with OS but I prefer to have it integrated with my IDE. Below is a link to an IBM article which explains in detail how to setup SVN:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecl-subversion/
Here is a more recent update link for SVN:
http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.2.x
Troy
Posted by Troy on March 21, 2008 under IT |
Apple released Safari 3.1 for Windows this week and also distributed via an i-Tunes update. You can download it here:
http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
Here is a shot of Safari installed on Windows XP:
The install was very straight forward. The browser doesn’t have a home button but you can just use the following shortcut:
CTRL + SHIFT + H
Troy
Posted by Troy on March 20, 2008 under IT, Microsoft |
The other day i was creating a table to itemize a list of requirements for a project. I wanted to add a unique identifier for each requirement for reference purposes.
Of course i didn’t want to type the number for each new row. I was able to do this by inserting a field and using the MAX formula. I then copied the formula into every row in the first column except for the first row. The formula looks like this:
=MAX(ABOVE) + 10
Finally you need to select the entire column and press the F9 key to recalculate the formula.
You could also use an AUTONUM field but if you want to insert a row between two existing rows it would affect the numbering system. The AUTONUM filed is based on an existing list (e.g. 1,2,3 …. or a, b, c ..).
Troy
