Tech Life of Recht

I’ve just finished upgrading my two machines (a MacBook Pro, Santa Rosa, and an iMac) to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty). Everything went pretty smoothless, although the download did take some time.

I have only made two adjustments:

• Fn keys enabled by default – previously, you would add “options hid pb_fnmode=2″ to a file in /etc/modprobe.d – now it should be “options hid_apple fnmode=2″ instead. This can also be changed at runtime in /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/fnmode
• Compiled a new kernel with highmem support (by following this little guide)

Other than that, everything seems to work without any trouble, and nothing broke. Sweet.

GWT 1.6 was released recently, and because of some pretty major changes in the compiler, my old GWT task for Ant broke (with an InstantiationException when trying to run the task). For some reason, GWT is still not provided with a real Ant task for compiling GWT modules, so I decided to update my old task.

This means that a new version, 1.2, has been released. I’ve also moved the code to Google Code, so now issues can be filed there. I’ll try to move the instruction pages to the Google Code site also, but for now, only the issue tracker and Subversion repository is used.

The task works as always, but to use it with GWT 1.6, you have to add a version=”1.6″ attribute to the element in order to switch to 1.6. The version value can be 1.4, 1.5, or 1.6. 1.4 and 1.5 enables the old compiler, and is the default value.

Download the new version here and report issues here.

You probably thought it would never happen, but I finally got a couple of hours for making a new version of the Hudson plugin for Eclipse. There are no major feature additions (other than support for form-based authentication), but all the reported issues should be fixed now. Check out the changelog at Google Code where the new version can also be downloaded. The update site should have the new version.

If you have any suggestions, comments, or bug reports, please use the issue tracker.

Enjoy!

I’ve been working with GWT for a while now, and like just about everybody else, I’ve also been using some of Google’s other services like maps and calendar. There’s not been a release of the GWT Ant target, but that’s mostly because the current version just works (if it doesn’t work for you, please let me know).
Generally, most of the stuff coming from Google is great. You can always discuss whether they have some sort of evil master plan hidden somewhere, but so far, it seems to be going pretty well. So, I thought I’d ask the company if I could go to the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, and luckily for me, it got approved. It will be very interesting to see if it’s a complete fanboy conference, or if there’s actually some usable content. I’m hoping for the last, but everything fails, I can hopefully grab a bagful of Google merchandise. I’m the only one from Trifork going, but the wife is going with me, so we’ll spend some extra days in SF.