One of the first things that I install on any new Windows machine that I get is VIM . I have been using VI for years, and love having it integrated into my Windows Environment. One of my favorite features is the ability to view a file by right clicking on it and selecting the “Edit with VIM” option from the Contextual Menu.

When I installed VIM on Windows Vista 64, everything worked great except that there was no “Edit with VIM” menu option. Well off I went and found the following solution on the Vim on Vista - VIM Tips Wiki . All you have to do is the following:

1. Open regedit
2. Navigate to and expand: Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell Note: Literally a * ; should be first in list
   1. Right click on shell
      1. Select New -> Key
   2. Right Click on the new key, and rename it to: Open with gVIm
   3. Left click on Open with gVIm
      1. In the right hand side, Right Click on (Default) and select Modify
         1. In the Value Data field type: Edit with Vim
   4. Right Click on Open with gVIm
      1. Select New -> Key
   5. Right Click on the new key, and rename it to Command
   6. Left click on Command
      1. In the right hand side, Right Click on (Default) and select Modify
         1. In the Value Data field type: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim72\gvim.exe” “%1” Note: quotes (") are important!

I have been having a fun time today trying to figure out how to use the svn:externals property to include the contents of another project in my repository. The svn documentation is not really good at explaining this feature to the user. It is almost like they don’t even want you to know about it.

We are currently using this feature in our project to include a standard set of ivy properties and repository libraries wherever we need them in other projects. This is great, because now we can just point a project in svn to this standard project. When the user set’s the svn:externals property in there project, the libraries will be fetched with the next update.

Let’s say you have a svn project at https://svn.repo.com/build-libs/trunk. This repository contains some common libraries that are needed in all of the projects in your organization. You have recently created a new project and added it into svn. This svn project is https://svn.repo.com/new-project/trunk. The project layout is as follows:

-trunk
--src
--java

build-lib https://svn.repo.com/build-libs/trunk

svn propset svn:externals . -F svn_ext.txt

I hope that this helps you out. I spent quite a while trying to figure this very simple thing out. Once you get it down it is a very powerful property that you will probably use a lot.

If you are running a Shibboleth 2 Service Provider on a Apache 2.2 HTTP server which resides behind a SSL Offloader you could run into a problem with the redirect schema expecting https but is rewritten as http. This is a easy problem to fix. Make sure your ServerName attribute is fully qualified with a schema name. You will want to make sure you add https to the domain name of the server. Here is a example of how my ServerName attribute looks.

ServerName https://sp.example.com

I recently got a cable to connect my laptop to my TV so I could stream shows and view them on my TV set. This initially was working great for me, except I hated getting up to go to a new website and view new content. I guess I am really lazy or I just hate being thrown back to my childhood when my dad would treat me like a remote, so I looked for a better solution. While searching for a way to stream Netflix videos, I came across Boxee .

Boxee is one of the greatest Open Source software projects I have ever used. It provides a great, user friendly interface, that is so simple I think that even my parents could figure it out. It provides me a full screen menu of the best internet tv sites along with the ability to stream netflix videos. I can control all of the navigation through my mouse, so I never have to get up. I can even rate video and allow people to track what I am viewing. The system searches many different internet sources to download cover art for music, song lyrics, movie information, ect. Every day I seem to find more and more things about Boxee that I just love.

I periodically go to the Apache Roller Blog page to see if any new releases have happened or new functionality is in the works. Good thing I checked because there is a new release of Apache Roller available that fixes some bugs.

It’s been over a year since our last Roller release and we’ve fixed a couple dozen bugs in that time including an XSS vulnerability reported recently by Secunia.com. Now those fixes are available as an official Roller release, 4.0.1

* Bugs fixed are listed in the JIRA Issue Tracker Release Notes page
* Updated files and docs are available via the Apache download mirror network

This is a bug-fix only release with no new features.

I hope that this upgrade will go as smoothly as the one’s I have done in the past.