Eric Burke posts on his O’Reilly weblog concerning the new version of his tool, “AntGraph”:http://www.ericburke.com/antgraph/index.html.
AntGraph uses an XSLT stylesheet to convert any Ant buildfile into a “dot” file, which is then converted into a GIF image using “Graphviz”:http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/ from ATT labs.
To be honest I think if your Ant files ever got complicated enough for this tool to be really useful then I’d suggest rewriting them, but it looks cool anyway.
Just spotted a new plugin over at the “MT Plugin Directory”:http://mt-plugins.org/. The Acronym lets you specify acronyms in a text file and automatically generates the correct HTML code.
Just spent ages tracking down a problem with some Javascript on IE 5.0….I was running a Javascript function using a Click Me! which worked fine on IE 6 (and firebird naturally) but refused to work on IE 5. Changed it to a which seemed to fix things. Oh well, I guess an easy life with one browser version to worry about would be boring….
Over at “java.lang.NullBlogException”:http://www.ktorn.com/roller/page/ktorn/ I spotted a post concerning a “howto(Apache Tomcat On Linux = Step-by-Step)”:http://www.cardon.biz/docs/tomcat/index.html written by Michael Cardon on load balancing Tomcat instances using Apache. Given the problems we’ve been having here at work with our “Foundry(Foundry Networks Home Page)”:http://www.foundrynetworks.com/ load balancers (which I REALLY don’t want to get into right now), this might be very handy for me in the not too distant future….
I’ve been reading over at phil ringnalda dot com about Firebird’s next major feature – “webpanels (Ben Goodger’s webpanel overview)”:http://www.bengoodger.com/software/mb/webpanels.txt. Think a tiny webpage in your side bar, that will also of course handle an XUL interface. Ben Goodger has already “suggested (MovableType Forum posting on an XUL MT client)”:http://www.movabletype.org/support/index.php?act=ST&f=12&t=25091&s=14f03ae435ab38fe528a3861e5a7526f an XUL MT client. I may be tempted to download one of the current Firebird nightlies to give it a go…
“The Register”:http://www.theregister has an article on the announcement by the “Open Groupware project”:http://www.opengroupware.org/ of the initial release of their Exchange replacement.
Thanks to comments by “Francois Jordaan(Francois Jordaan’s weblog)”:http://www.fjordaan.uklinux.net/ on a topic concerning CMS Needs over at the “Measure Twice Weblog”:http://kalsey.com/blog/, I found a couple of interesting articles related to the use of MovableType as a simple CMS system. “Stopdesign”:http://www.stopdesign.com/ covers the “use of MT”:http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2003/07/11/adaptive_paths_mt_setup.html as part of the “Adaptive Path”:http://www.adaptivepath.com/ redesign. Meanwhile, “A Whole Lotta Nothing”:http://a.wholelottanothing.org/’s article “Beyond the Blog”:http://a.wholelottanothing.org/features.blah/entry/007162 gives some very clear examples for the use of MT for static-page generation. I’ll probably be following this for my About pages…
At work we are trying to move our content management in-house. Our current website is a JSP-driven affair, with well defined areas where we want our staff to upload content once a week or so. MovableType should let us do that – I’ll just have to write a custom Tag to grab the individual archive files and embed them.
Scorched 3D, the latest version of the 3D remake of one of my favorite games of all time is out. The latest version finally includes Napalm, yay!
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