Environment Information:

JDK 1.5+
Eclipse 3.4.0
maven 2.0.10
m2eclipse 0.9.7 (maven plugin for eclipse)
Jetty 6.1.10
Spring
JPA,Hibernate

Maven Jetty Configuration:

In your maven project’s pomx.xml, in your <build> section, add the jetty plugin.  An example can be found at the Jetty website here:

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Maven+Jetty+Plugin#MavenJettyPlugin-WebappConfiguration

It is very important to keep <scanIntervalSeconds> set to zero.  This setting tells Jetty how often (in seconds) to scan the webapp for changes and if changes are found, it re-cycles the web container.  You don’t want to do this and setting it to zero will disable it.

Configuring Jetty to start within Eclipse:

Next, create an easy way to launch your jetty server.  I’m using Jetty through Maven and Eclipse.  Here is how I setup an Eclipse External Tool to launch my Jetty server:

To make sure it is listening for a debugger, make sure that a MAVEN_OPTS environment variable is set with the following options:

-Xdebug -Xnoagent -Djava.compiler=NONE -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=4000,server=y,suspend=n

The address parameter is what port the jetty server will be listening on for the remote debugger.

Click ‘Run’ and your jetty server should start running in Eclipse’s console window.  It should look something like this (depending on your log4j config):

Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 4000


[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'jetty'.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building myProject
[INFO]    task-segment: [jetty:run]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Preparing jetty:run
2010-05-27 15:39:25.733::INFO:  Started SelectChannelConnector@0.0.0.0:8080
[INFO] Started Jetty Server

Attaching the Debugger:

Next, setup a debugger.  In Eclipse open ‘Debug Configurations’, and create a new ‘Remote Java Debugger’.   Select your eclipse project, set the host to localhost, and set the port to 4000, or whatever you defined earlier.

Press the Debug Button and the remote debugger should attach to your jetty server.

Finally, make sure Build Automatically is enabled in eclipse (Project->Build Automatically).

At this point your environment is enabled for debugging code on your Jetty server through Eclipse.  Breakpoints, watch variables, you name it.

Hot deploy is also enabled.  If you modify some java code, the automatic builder should compile the .java file to a .class file.  The remote debugger will see it and use it, all without restarting your jetty server or its web container.  This will not work for things like adding static variables, new domain classes, or new injectable service methods that require the application to acknowledge them on startup.

The fix?

1 -Disable plugins via the database:

http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F

2 – Modify  .htaccess to comment out or remove the section relating to wp-supercache.

wp-supercache has always caused some oddities.  I will no longer be using it.

Environment:
Windows XP
Java JDK 1.6.0_11 (any 1.6 probably works)
Any modern CPU should work.  Mine is 32 bit – not sure about 64 bit.
The emulator takes ~300MB of memory so you’ll probably want at least 1GB.I’ve got 2GB

1 – Download and install VirtualBox
(http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads).  I am using version 2.2.4

2 – Download and install the SDK.
Palm has the SDK available for free download.  I think registration is required.
link: http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&layout=page&id=1788

3 – Start the Emulator.
When the SDK finishes installing you should see a “Palm Emulator” icon on your desktop.  Open it.

The emulator should start up and it should look like this:

Linux kernel starting

The splash screen

Finished!

Ok, you’ve got your emulator running.  Now its time for the fun part.  Lets make a program!

4 – Open up your command prompt (start-run-”cmd”).   If you’re running vista, make sure you run “cmd” as Administrator.  Navigate to ‘Program Files\Palm\SDK\bin’.  Type in “palm-generate helloWorld” to create the shell of a hello world program.  The output should say “Generating new_app in C:\Program Files\Palm\SDK\bin\helloWorld”

5 – Go into your new helloWorld directory and modify index.html.  Now we’re just programming a web page!

Hello World

6 – once you’ve modified and saved index.html, go back to the command prompt and run “palm-package helloWorld”.  It should create a .ipk file in the bin directory.

7 – run “palm-install <name of .ipk file>”  Mine got named ‘com.yourdomain.helloworld_1.0_all.ipk’.  At this point you will want to make sure that your emulator is still running.

7 – Go to your emulator and run the program!

8- Profit!

6/28/2009-updated with hardware specs

5/1/2010 – linked to SDK download through palm.com

This is me getting dirty with ATV Kauai.  It was a blast

Dayna and I ripped up the carpet in our living room and dining room and installed hardwood there instead. Pictures Here

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Any code in the Your code here.. block will execute as soon as the page is loaded. This is useful for referencing DOM elements which would have been “undefined” before the page was fully loaded by the browser.

• Gladiator
• Heat
• Saving Private Ryan
• Lord of the Rings Trilogy
• Fight Club

EDIT (4/3/2010): Saving Private Ryan will be the last of these released on May 4, 2010.  I’m happy to see that I’ve got so much traction with the movie industry

Football is back! And yes T.O., I do have my popcorn ready

• My team and I at Geneca finished our B2B auction web application ahead of schedule last week and there was much rejoicing. I had a lot of fun on the project.
• About two and a half weeks ago now I finished my summer MBA course: Cost Accounting. Man am I glad that’s over.
• Today I upgraded RedCloth on my rails app to 4.0. Dreamhost didn’t have redcloth installed by default however and to make it work I ended up having to create a gem repository in home directory – it ended up being a real pain in the ass. I mostly followed the instructions on doing so from here:http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/RubyGems#Application_Specific_Gems
• I saw an old post I made last year saying I dropped my yearly hosting costs to $23. Renewal time came around again and without being to use a promo code it costs $119/year. Dreamhost has been pretty good and I don’t feel like shopping around for a new host so I bit the bullet and paid it. ouch.