November, 20th 2010
Some time ago I wrote about how to let Eclipse PDE Build automatically compile Scala projects. Therefore a special Ant script (customBuildCallbacks.xml
) had to be created in the project’s root directory. This script looked for the Scala library and compiler and then built the project’s source files.
June, 4th 2010
I’m using Git as the version control system for my projects for some time now. Since the graphical user interfaces are not very mature yet and I like having full control over everything, I’m using Git on the command line (i.e. Bash). In order to avoid entering the same commands all over again, I wrote some Bash aliases and functions which ease the use of Git.
April, 5th 2010
Lift already provides some mechanisms to publish a website in different languages. If Lift is used within an OSGi environment, a little workaround is needed in order to make it find the Resource Bundles containing language-dependent strings (usually provided as property files).
March, 30th 2010
PDE Build is the standard build tool from Eclipse. It is used to export OSGi bundles, plugins, features or products. Running in headless mode, PDE Build can be used for automatic builds without a GUI. The Scala IDE does not support PDE Build yet. In order to compile Scala projects you have to do some manual work.
March, 22nd 2010
Scala does not have an official style guide yet. Because of this, Daniel Spiewak posted such a document in November 2009 on the Scala mailing list. As can be read there, even Martin Odersky, the inventor of Scala, likes that idea and thinks about publishing the document on the official Scala website.
March, 3rd 2010
The iPhone is very useful for forum administrators who are often on the road and like to answer posts on the train, for example. Unfortunately, the default theme of phpBB is hardly usable on the iPhone (or the iPod Touch). Apart from that, the font size of most discussion boards is so small that you constantly have to zoom.