Category Archives: Programming

gedit plugins: split screen

Most of my development work happens on my Linux desktops at work and home. While I’m pretty comfortable with vi and know my way around Eclipse, the majority of my scripts get written using gedit. Now out of the box, gedit is a pretty good editor. Although its always had extensibility via a plugin facility, [...]

Working with OpenJDK

The 1.6.0 beta version of the open source openjdk toolkit has now become a standard part of Fedora 9, and looks like it will replace java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2 in the next major version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For now, java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-0.7.b08 and related packages, like java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-0.7.b08 and java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-0.7.b08, are available from the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, [...]