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Trac is a great project management tool. You get a project website with a wiki, your source repository and a ticket system.

Cool stuff, for instance :

• If you write the name of a Java class in your Wiki, Trac will recognize this and link to your source repository.
• If you checkin code into your SVN repo and use comments like #235, Trac will link your SVN comments to the right ticket.
• Visualisation of the branches via revtree en mergeenhancer plugins.
• and much more…

They do eat their own dog food as the Trac project website is build with … Trac. I have Trac-0.11rc2-py2.5.egg running on my VPS. Today I’m trying to get Trac XML_RPC to work.

Ultimate goal : integration with Eclipse Mylyn. (more...)

I recently bought a nabaztag and discovered a cool app for my G1. Nabaztag is a "toy" rabbit with some elektronics onboard. It connects to the network with wifi and can receive commands to blink leds, speak text and move his ears. You can make it read your emails, the weather, the time etc ... With the wabbit app for the google G1 android phone you can send text to your rabbit or change the positions of the ears with your mobile. Big fun, nothing else

Several users of Eclipse Ganymede out there are reporting a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError for class SWTResourceUtil. That's because some plugins (like the Hibernate Tools and Subversive) are still relying on the presence of this class that was present in older versions of Eclipse.

Here's how you can fix this. (more...)

I have installed an EIB based home automation system in my home. EIB (European Instalation Bus) is an open standard, but I found it very hard to find good documentation and tools for it. If you plan playing with this system a good starting point is the Institute of Computer Aided Automation. For the moment I use the EIBD server to interface my KNX IP BAOS 770 EIB module with misterhouse. This works great for me. If you are interested in more EIB related info, let me know. Maybe I write a post on this blog about my setup.