Category Archives: development

Home brew CPU

July 21, 2008 – 12:53 pm

Wouldn’t it be cool to build your own CPU… especially one that actually runs a modernish OS?
From the site…
“Magic-1 is a homebuilt minicomputer. It doesn’t use an off-the-shelf microprocessor, but rather has a custom CPU made out of 74 Series TTL chips. Altogether there are more than 200 chips in Magic-1 connected together with thousands […]

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Tomcat JRE_HOME setting

July 16, 2008 – 11:00 am

If you are running Tomcat from the command line using catalina.bat (or catalina.sh) then you can set the start up settings in your shell.
set JRE_HOME=C:\Progra~1\Java\jdk1.5.0_14
This works on Windows, it seems that JAVA_HOME is the only system variable tomcat 5.5 is using. The rest come from the start directory?
Using CATALINA_BASE:   E:\bin\apache-tomcat-5.5.26
Using CATALINA_HOME:   E:\bin\apache-tomcat-5.5.26
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: E:\bin\apache-tomcat-5.5.26\temp
Using JRE_HOME:        […]

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Tomcat on Windows

July 16, 2008 – 10:44 am

Does anyone else find it painful that Tomcat seems to find all of it’s configuration settings on Windows in the registry?

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Developing MySQL Applications with Eclipse CDT

July 15, 2008 – 4:16 pm

Developing MySQL Applications with Eclipse CDT: cool, I’m considering building a C integration to mysql.
Seems a little strange that Sun already have their logo up there.

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Eclipse PDT : PHP development tools

July 15, 2008 – 10:43 am

Once you have installed any version of eclipse (I went with Europa 3.3, it comes in the openSuse software repositories), unfortunately the version doesn’t come with many plugins and installing PHP tools was a pain.
So I’m going with PDT all in one Eclipse 3.3. The PDT team seem to have dropped the ball with Eclipse […]

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