// July 5th, 2005 // No Comments » // Uncategorized
Geez what a weekend. Had a great time with friends and family. Had a BBQ, swam alot, played ball, had a bon fire, shot off fireworks, had another BBQ, hung out with friends some more, went to a nature park and then saw an awesome fireworks display. Boy, definitely not a relaxing weekend, but sure was a fun one.
Now its time to sit down and relax at work. Ooookay. ;0)
// July 5th, 2005 // 1 Comment » // Uncategorized
Its almost here! Can’t wait! Big Brother 6 premieres this Thursday July 7th @ 8PM. I’ve watched every season of Big Brother. Its really a nice refreshing summer series. Its not overkill as its only a couple months out of the year, unlike Survivor where they are now shoving it down your throat with one season ending and another starting up a week later. Anyways, plus its fun to see what sorta people they throw into a house and see how they interact. And there’s usually a neat twist thrown into the mix to make it all the more interesting.
I won’t be able to watch the premiere live as I will be at a wedding rehersal party. But I am sure one of my wonderful co-workers will tape it or Tivo it for me. :0)
Looking at the list of house guests on the site, my very first unofficial prediction (based on looks and the small bios) for the winner is James. But I am not going to hold myself to that. Only after I see the first episode I will make my official guess at the season’s winner.
// July 5th, 2005 // No Comments » // Uncategorized
Been looking into a nice way to track java JAR dependencies in our Eclipse projects at work. We have a great library sharing distribution mechanism in place, but no dependency management. You got to know if your project uses Lib A, and that Lib A needs Lib B; you gotta add Lib B to your project.
Found a nice java library called Ivy for managing your java dependencies using Ant. Really very nice. All types of ways to configure how libraries are retrieved and versioned, has caching so you don’t download libraries over and over again unnecessarily. But what would be even better would be to use Ivy from Eclipse. And thats where Necessitas comes in. Its a nice plugin for Eclipse, put together by Kevin O’Neill, that allows you to use the Ivy dependency management but have all the libraries automatically added to your classpath and cached to your computer. Started using it; pretty nice. I’d like to contribute where I can, but its off to a great start. I’m looking more and more into the source of it, so maybe I can add a thing or two.
But I recommend if you are in software development and have libraries you reuse in multiple project, you should have some sort of dependency maangement. Because it can be hell to keep everything straight.
