some personal, more technical – by Thomas Einwaller
Two weeks ago Eclipse 3.3 M5 was released. From my experiences with past versions of Eclipse milestone five is usually a good point to switch or at least try it. My favorite new features of version 3.3 so far are: Save actions – allow you to configure which action are performed automatically when saving Java [...]
In: General
24 Feb 2007My brother Dave just put the new blog of his Freestyle team online – check it out. The trailer of their first video looks promising
If you have to work with the cvs command line tool you will come across the problem how to add all files and directories. find . -type d -print | grep -v CVS | xargs cvs add find . -type f -print | grep -v CVS | xargs cvs add Thanks to Torsten!
In: General
21 Feb 2007Last weekend we had some great days in the mountains … see more pictures here or here on flickr. Weather, eating and drinking … everything was perfect!
In: Blackberry
14 Feb 2007emoze provides a free push email service for many different devices and email clients. They challenged BlackBerry for a showdown – unfortunately I could not find any results yet. UPDATE: They won against BlackBerry – read it.
In: General
14 Feb 2007I just created my first yahoo pipe, it is very simple and just aggregates my feeds into one feed – basically this blog and my shared items from Google Reader. Check it out!
In: Blackberry
13 Feb 2007Here is a nice little vid recorded by Cellular Magazine showing the new BlackBerry 8800 in action:
In: Blackberry
12 Feb 2007All blogs are full of it: Boy Genius, RIMarkable, BlackBerryCool … today RIM officially announced the BlackBerry 8800. The official site is already online – check it out. Additionally BG posted some comparison pictures of BlackBerry 8700 and 8800 – with the statement “Trust me, if you have an 8700 you’ll want an 8800.” – [...]
If you want to secure your web site you can configure your apache2 server to require a client certificate. You do this by adding the following to options to the ssl host configuration: SSLCACertificateFile /etc/ssl/private/CAcert.pem SSLVerifyClient require SSLVerifyDepth 10 To create a client certificate use the following commands openssl genrsa -out client.key 1024 openssl req [...]
I got so much response on my post about the certificate problems with apache2 and Firefox that I decided to post a howto about creating valid certificates with openssl. I am using an Ubuntu 6.10 server but there is no big difference to other distros except the directory structures. First you have to install openssl [...]