Where did lighttpd go?

Bummer, site seems to be down. Think I'll use Mongoose httpd instead.

http://code.google.com/p/mongoose/

Subversion and Google Projects

Installed Subversive

Useful link

Checking out projects from Google Code - the URL should be configured as:

https://yourproject.googlecode.com/svn

SVN client on eclipse

SubEclipse works perfectly when installed in Windows but not Ubuntu. You'll receive a dialog "Unable to load default SVN Client". It's because the Linux version does not come with JavaHL .

What is JavaHL?

Getting it to work under Ubuntu

Apparently installation of JavaHL isn't straightforward.

I've found an alternative:

Subversive

Will be trying this out.

HTML 5

I've avoided doing any HTML/Javascript related work since HTML 3.2

Lately I've noticed HTML 5 being talked about in the usual tech forums and I thought it's just some incremental improvements with a video tag being thrown in. I was mistaken.

The proposed HTML 5 standard apparently covers not just video, but how you can manipulate images and shapes in the browser as well. The appearance of the canvas element should be a welcomed specification. Finally Flash will not be the only player in town(Silverlight too?).

I'll be looking closely at the canvas element. Graphics is something I love playing with since the microcomputer days( 10 GR: 20 PLOT 10,20)

Back to my google wave gadget...

Server Name Indicator

Something to think about next time when deploying servers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication

Noticed Google App hosting doesn't support it now.

Hello World in Android

What do you get when you put a hot weather , a bored programmer and a bottle of tequila together?

You get hello world in Android!

Downloaded the bunch of dev kits, Eclipse IDE (bye bye Netbeans) and read the docs from Google.

Here's the result!

Regular Expressions on a rainy Sunday afternoon

Since it's raining and there's nothing much to do outdoors I've began coding the portion of the code to parse Subject of an smtp mail to check for magic code for my pidgin plugin. Revisiting some rusty regexp knowledge.