The following error message in Eclipse: An error has occurred. See error log for more details. Could not initialize class org.eclipse.wst.server.ui.internal.provisional.UIDecoratorManageris a known bug. The bug is now fixed in WTP 3.1.2. T…

In /etc/subversion/servers, add the lines: [global] http-proxy-exceptions = localhost,*.exception.com http-proxy-host = proxy.com http-proxy-port = 8080More info here: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07.html#svn-ch-7-sect-1.3.1Also, y…

In catalina.properties, add the lines: http.proxyHost=10.25.10.25 http.proxyPort=8080 http.nonProxyHosts=localhost|127.0.0.1|*.exception.comThese are Java system properties as described here: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/net/p…

UPDATE: The Google Wave wiki now has Prosody installation docs here. I had some trouble getting Google Wave federation working with the XMPP servers Openfire and ejabberd on Ubuntu. Finally I tried Prosody, and it works fine! Here how I in…

I tried out Mercurial on Ubuntu 8.10, and was immediately defeated by my corporate proxy: $ hg clone https://wave-protocol.googlecode.com/hg/ wave-protocol abort: HTTP Error 501: Not ImplementedHere is how I fixed this.Step 1: Configure Me…

On the IRC client irssi, when your nick is included in a message, that message's nick is highlighted in yellow to alert you. Unfortunately, yellow is difficult to read on a white background.The highlight color is defined in the default the…

Two surprises with Rails today involving URLs and escape sequences.1. Regular expressions in routes operate on the raw URL.Suppose you have these routes: map.connect 'test/:id', :controller => 'test', :id => /[^\/]*/ map.connect 'test/:hi/…