Every Flavour Beans

Installing Sun Java SE 6, Maven 2 and Tomcat 5.5 on Fedora GNU/Linux

Tabrez Iqbal — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:06:06 +0000

For using most of the enterprise technologies based on Java, you generally need at least the following components installed and configured on your system: Sun Java SE (or EE) SDK A command line build tool like Ant or Maven A Java application server/container like Tomcat, Jetty, Glassfish, JBoss etc. Based on which Java based technology/framework you [...]

Installing amazon-ecs/hpricot RubyGem on Windows Operating System

Tabrez Iqbal — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:15:32 +0000

Installing rubygems that come with native extensions is not same on gnu/linux and Windows platforms as I have discovered recently. Apparently, it is important that the native extensions needed by the rubygem be built with the same compiler tool chain as your main ruby installation. The rubygem I needed to install was amazon-ecs and it [...]

“Hello, World” Web Application in Ruby on Rails using Aptana Studio

Tabrez Iqbal — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:04:02 +0000

I am assuming that you have everything properly setup on your computer for developing applications with the Ruby on Rails framework using Aptana Studio IDE. If not, see my previous posts: Setting Up Rails Development Environment on Windows Vista/XP Setting Up Rails Development Environment using Aptana Studio In this post I will take you through a [...]

Setting Up Rails Development Environment using Aptana Studio

Tabrez Iqbal — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:07:37 +0000

You first need to complete the first five steps of my earlier post “Setting Up Rails Development Environment on Windows Vista/XP” which explain how to install Ruby, RubyGems, Ruby on Rails, Mongrel web server and MySQL database server on Microsoft Winodws Vista/XP. You can skip the last two steps(sixth and seventh) of that post which [...]

Installing Sun Java SE 6, Apache Maven 2 and Tomcat 5.5 on Windows OS

Tabrez Iqbal — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:19:06 +0000

For using most of the enterprise technologies based on Java, you generally need at least the following components installed and configured on your system: Java SE or EE SDK A command line build tool A Java application server/container like Tomcat, Glassfish, JBoss etc. Based on the Java based technology/framework you want to use, you may need [...]

“Hello, World” Web Application using Struts 2 in IntelliJ IDEA 8.0 M1

Tabrez Iqbal — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:49:01 +0000

At last we have a Java IDE that ships with Struts 2 support built-in: no manual configuring the web applications to add Struts 2 support and no more hassles of finding and installing Struts 2 plugins. JetBrains released IntelliJ IDEA 8 Milestone release 1 a week ago and the milestone version includes support for Struts [...]

How Wordpress 2.6 ‘Post Revisions’ Retrieved My Unsaved Post Updates

Tabrez Iqbal — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:54:35 +0000

The feature announced to be included in the next version of Wordpress that had excited me the most was the Post Revisioning feature that was set for the Wordpress 2.6 release. After having used 2.6 version for so many days, I finally had a taste of its usefulness today. (Even though I didn't get to [...]

Posting to Identi.ca From Ubuntu 8.04 Using Gwibber Client

Tabrez Iqbal — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:24:45 +0000

Instructions are available on the Internet on how to download and install Gwibber microblogging client(twitter/identica/etc.) on a Debian-based operating system. The Gwibber page on Ubuntu Wiki, for example, has a really long/detailed procedure to install it; below I have documented the quick and dirty procedure that has worked for me to install Gwibber on Ubuntu [...]