I’ve been using a Mac Mini for a while now to run my media center but recently I discovered that I actually had more than 8.000 songs in WMA format that iTunes silently ignores when importing. This blog is about how I managed to get that converted without too much fuzz. UI Conversion tools There [...]
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Migrating from Serendipity (s9y) to WordPress
By Max in JavaI migrated this blog from from Serendipity (s9y) to WordPress. It turned out to be pretty simple to import s9y posts to WordPress with the s9y importer, but making sure the old links to posts and feeds turned out to be a bit trickier. I found a blog post that outlined how to use .htaccess to solve [...]
This category is moving to in.relation.to
By Max in JBoss Tools and devstudioIn the future i’ll put my blogs about JBoss Tools/Developer Studio and related at in.relation.to. First entry is already there, an updated version of “Making Eclipse look good under Linux”, see it here.
JBoss Tools & Developer Studio at JavaPolis
By Max in JBoss Tools and devstudioJavaPolis is getting near and this year I’ll finally have time to go to it – yay! If you want to hear about JBoss Tools and Developer Studio (or just meet up and try out the belgium beer) then come meet me in the JBoss/Red Hat booth or catch me listening in on some of [...]
Jing – the best tool for reporting bugs for any UI!
By Max in JavaJing is a tool for grabbing screenshots and screencasts on Windows and Mac. That does not sound so new and exiting until you actually try and use Jing. They made it so easy to do the screenshot and screencasts that everybody can do it without spending any more time than it takes to actually do [...]
Red Hat Developer Studio Candidate Release
By Max in JBoss Tools and devstudioThe candidate release of Red Hat Developer Studio is now available over at Red Hat. The major news in this release is Seam 2 support together with over 300+ fixes and enhancements. You can read more about those in the New and noteworthy pages. Below is a small video, demonstrating the quick and easy setup [...]
Making Eclipse look good on Linux
By Max in JavaI have been bothered a long time by the “clumsy” look that Eclipse has on my Fedora box compared to how it looks on Windows and Mac. Eclipse 3.3 running on Windows XP Eclipse 3.3 running on Fedora 6 (but looks very similar on other distros) Notice that the font size is bigger ( 10 [...]
Eclipse The Memory Hog – resolved!
By Max in JavaA couple of months back I made a blog entry about Eclipse and its memory settings. I wrote it because so many people complained that even when they put memory flags in their eclipse.ini Eclipse was still a memory hog and it crashed all the time. The entry blog explains how fragile eclipse.ini is and [...]
Visual Page Editor updated – now with MacOSX support
By Max in JBoss Tools and devstudioWe now got nightly builds for JBoss Tools that uses the Eclipse 3.3 compatible XULRunner from Eclipse ATF/Mozilla.org instead of our older version of Mozilla in the Visual Page Editor (VPE). So, what does this mean for our users ? VPE will use less resources on windows since we don’t have to load Mozilla twice [...]
Red Hat Developer Studio Beta2 released
By Max in JBoss Tools and devstudioWe made Red Hat Developer Studio 1.0.0.beta2 available at http://www.redhat.com/developers/rhds/index.html Red Hat Developer Studio is a set of eclipse-based development tools that are pre-configured for JBoss Enterprise Middleware Platforms. It currently bundles JBoss EAP 4.2, Eclipse 3.3, latest JBossTools plugins plus other plugins relevant for JBoss development. Whats new and noteworthy for Red Hat Developer [...]