It’s been nearly a year since the last FireBible release. Way too long since most of the core functionality for this version was ready way back in July last year. What’s new? General Book, Daliy Devotional, Glossary and Dictionary support. The awesome bar in Firefox 3 makes looking up content especially easy since all you need to do is type in the title of previously viewed / bookmarked content and Firefox will suggest the best links for you. This version is compatible with JSword 1.6 and the new Java plugins from Sun (see special instructions if you have Java 1.6 update 10 or update 11 installed). For more details, head on to the FireBible page.
FireBible 0.8 Released
MyEclipse 7 is Here!
If you’re wondering why I jumped straight to a MyEclipse 7 post without any “non-work” posts in between, then you’re staring the reason in the face… MyEclipse 7.0. Since MyEclipse 6.6, we’ve presented at Eclipse World (more about that later) and worked on nothing but MyEclipse 7.0. Besides new features, this release includes much awaited updates and fixes across the board. MyEclipse 7.0 and MyEclipse 7.0 Blue Edition were released on the 9th, so without wasting more time, let’s dive right into the juicy details…
buy modafinil now What’s new:
7.0 is our first production release for Ganymede (Eclipse 3.4), preceded by two milestone releases in the 7 series. It is also the first MyEclipse release delivered on top of the underneath Pulse Eclipse Management Platform and includes a Pulse based plugin dashboard. As an end user, this enables you to:
- Install optional and early access MyEclipse plugins.
- Update MyEclipse easily.
- Easily add and manage 3rd party plugins to your MyEclipse installation.
- Move to another machine but continue to use an identically configured MyEclipse installation (including 3rd party plugins) with ease.
- Share workspaces and workspace settings with co-workers.
The ability to share workspaces is only available to Pulse Freelance subscribers, all other features are absolutely free.
MyEclipse 7.0 adds JAX-RS to it’s list of supported web service frameworks. This means you can now develop, deploy and test RESTful web services in MyEclipse. We use Jersey, the JAX-RS reference implementation. I’ll try to provide more details in a later post.
An early access version of our UML2 features can be installed via the dashboard. This includes a massively detailed UML2 graphical editor. So if you feel like cranking out a Composite Structure diagram (I don’t 😉 ), you know where to look.
Our Javascript tools are a professional integration of JSDT, which gives the editor a much needed upgrade with support for OOP/closures, vastly improved content assist and various other code browsing enhancements.
Updates:
- Spring Tools built on SpringIDE 2.2.0, with Spring Web Flow 2 support
- MyEclipse Reports now built on BIRT 2.3.1
- OpenJPA 1.2 support
- JSF EL content assist enhancements and support for Apache Trinidad tags
- ICEfaces 1.7.2 SP1
For more details (with pictures!), please see the New and Noteworthy documents for MyEclipse and MyEclipse Blue Edition. Enjoy!
MyEclipse 6.6 GA Released
MyEclipse 6.6 and MyEclipse 6.6 Blue Edition were released a few days ago; 6.6 is a bugfix update to version 6.5 on the Europa Platform.
Noteworthy items in this release include:
- Maven4MyEclipse updates
- Updated to WTP 2.0.3
- OpenJPA support
- Matisse4Myclipse and UML stability improvements
- Updated language packs
New and Noteworthy docs with more detail: MyEclipse 6.6, MyEclipse Blue 6.6.
A GA version of our Ganymede offering, MyEclipse 7.0 will be available later this month; if you are wondering why we chose to release 6.6 before 7.0, see this post. Our latest milestone release for the Ganymede platform is 7.0 M2. New and Noteworthy: MyEclipse 7.0 M2, MyEclipse Blue 7.0 M2.
DataFox and BSNL’s New Portal
Apparently not happy with their usage monitoring portal (or due to technical inability), almost a year ago BSNL started redirecting new customers (with IPs in the range 117.*.*.*) to a new portal where they could check their usage – http://bbservice.bsnl.in
I updated DatatFox and released version 1.4 to take care of this, everything seemed to be working fine until around a month ago; when they released yet another portal. Now 117.* users may (that’s right, may) be redirected to http://bbservice.bsnl.in/wps/portal automatically when they try to go to http://bbservice.bsnl.in; this is another completely different portal, one which DataFox cannot currently handle. One of my users reported that sometimes he is sent to the old new portal, and sometimes to the new new portal, WTF?
Whenever I try though, I do not get redirected, and have therefore been unable to take a crack at the new portal. I’m also very busy with work right now, so have had no time to look into this further. It will take me at least a couple of weeks to get back on this problem (along with an update for MTNL users). In the meanwhile, if you have any additional info on this subject, please leave a comment, email me or join the discussion here.
HDFC Bank – Special Message FAIL
For at least a year now, I have seen this message greet me when I login to HDFC Bank’s NetBanking site. I have better things to do and always ignore it.
But today I finally gave in and clicked the link…
🙁