How to set up a new Eclipse project in net.fnarg package

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mvn -o archetype:generate -DartifactId=classes-objects -DgroupId=net.fnarg.javatut
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I accepted the archetype defaults offered by generate

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cd classes-objects/
mvn -o eclipse:clean eclipse:eclipse
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Eclipse > New > Java Project
Use default location

Eclipse > Preferences > Java > Build Path > Classpath Variables
New > M2_REPO = $WORKSPACE/mvn/repo

Maven creates this structure.

src/main/java
  net/fnarg/javatut
    class-objects/*.java
src/test/java
  net/fnarg/javatut
    class-objects/*.java

This project has no dependencies other than JUnit.
Update the pom.xml JUnit is version 4.6

Eclipse > File > Import > File system

note in Eclipse on Mac using a minus like ‘this-that’ gives an error in the package name.

Squeaky Drawers

My children don’t have the patience to battle with a chest of drawers. They just pull harder until the drawers break. I solved this by putting shoe polish on the wooden runners. The drawers glide open and shut and now I can get on with the next thing on the DIY list. Hooray for shoe polish!

Getting a bit better at blogging

My written thoughts are scattered all over the place. Here are my user
stories:

As I blogger I want to
– keep ideas/thoughts in the cloud, i.e. distributed
– have a single process/store for Work, Family and Music
– continue to use Vim as the editor
– have the blog running on my own domain at fnarg.net

By blog I mean something that is text and written by me.
This diagram shows the activities that go into making a me blog.

blog activity diagram

*Putting it into practise*

So I found this plugin for Vim called Blogit that doesn’t quite fit all my use-cases but it does look good.
I tried to install Blogit:

http://www.lamolabs.org/blog/2083/managing-wordpress-posts-with-vim/
but the Mac Vim doesn’t come with Python.
Ok so I’ll use the Linux Vim but that has this bug:


Error detected while processing .vim/plugin/blogit.vim:
line 1781:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 9, in ?
ImportError: cannot import name CalledProcessError
Press ENTER or type command to continue

So I think I should upgrade Vim 7.0 to Vim 7.2

Download the Vim 7.2 source and now I have this other error. And like the poster to Vim support I have a term library ):


# locate libterm
/lib/libtermcap.so.2
/lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8

So I went back to the use-case and started looking at the XMLRPC part.
This did the trick. She’s a good ‘ol Perl!

And now I’m going to try and use it for the first time. If you can read this
then it probably worked (:

Well it did, but the activity diagram got mangled, hmm ..

I still find WordPress a complete pain to use as an editor, but at least this helped.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/