Thanks again to “Simon Willson”:http://simon.incutio.com/ for a “great bit of JavaScript”:http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2002/12/20/blockquoteCitations that automatically creates clickable links for @
@ @cite@ attributes, making my life a little easier once again. I really should send him a thankyou email….
Reading Simon Willson’s “blog”:http://simon.incutio.com/, I have been struck by the usefulness of his “related entries”:http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/04/25/relatedArticles links displayed alongside each post. Simon uses some custom PHP + MySql code to generate these links. I wanted to do something similar with Movable Type, and found the “Related Entries plugin”:http://www.kalsey.com/2002/07/related_entries_plugin/ which can automatically generate related entries based on categories, and also (as an “undocumented feature”:http://kalsey.com/2002/12/related_keywords/) keywords. Depending on my plans for the rest of the week I’ll try and get this working
“FindBugs”:http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/bugs/ is a Java tool which aims to find possible bugs in your code. I use “Eclipse’s”:http://www.eclipse.org/ own code checker and the Eclipse “Checkstyle”:http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/ “plugin”:http://eclipse-cs.sourceforge.net/ for this purpose, although it seems that Findbugs may pickup some things these tools don’t, such as:
- Places where a null pointer might be dereferenced
- I/O streams that are opened, do not escape the method, and are not closed on all paths out of the method
- Methods that can return null instead of a zero-length array
- Using the == or != operators to compare String objects
I might try runing it on my code base and see if it picks anything up…
Seems I’m going to have to pull my finger out at setup Trackback for the site at some point – whilst I’m at it I’ll add Category views too.
Finally – thanks in no small part to the “Markup Validation Service”:http://validator.w3.org/, and to Brad Choate’s Textile plugin which handles those pesky & and £ characters for me. Now I just have to remember to keep those @CSS(Cascading Style Sheets) validation is next!
My excellent Rega Planet CD player has given up the ghost – or at least it now seems unable to play a CD for more than a few seconds. It looks like I’m restricted to the Planar 2, Internet Radio and my iPod…..at least until I can contact a local Rega dealer. I will of course have to resist the urge to upgrade to the new Jupiter 2000.
CutePDF is a free PDF printer driver, which should allow you to print any document to a PDF. I’ll let you know if it works….
Seems there is a problem with using @
A brief keyboard roundup – first the happy hacker keyboards – tiny footprint keyboards which can also work on Unix & MAc workstations – ideal for system admin types. Second, a website offering a whole range of weirdand wonderful keyboards (some more weird than wonderful). And finally a keyboard for pirates – I’m waiting for an l33t hacker keyboard any day now…
From my forthcoming RSS-Java article – assuming it gets published! Actually this is as much to make sure the code formatting is still working…
Continue reading…
magpiebrain 
