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My Zenoss Development Environment – Part 3

In Part 1 of this series we discussed getting an initial Zenoss environment checked out and running on a Mac OS X or Ubuntu system. In Part 2 we discussed how to configure Eclipse to use the Zenoss source. In this part, we’ll discuss how to handle day-to-day operations such as branch management and working

My Zenoss Development Environment – Part 2

In Part 1 of this series we discussed getting an initial Zenoss environment checked out and running on a Mac OS X or Ubuntu system. In this part, we’ll discuss configuring Eclipse to use this environment. Mac OS X Prerequisites Install Eclipse Classic 3.5.x Mac Cocoa 32-bit. Ubuntu Prerequisites Install the Sun Java JDK. Why?

My Zenoss Development Environment – Part 1

Over the past 18 months the developers at Zenoss have used a variety of development environments and methods to productively work with Zenoss, but there are a lot of best practices that have emerged out of this diversity. I develop Zenoss primarily on Mac OS X, with some work done on Ubuntu when necessary. I

Why is my car’s satellite navigation system so stupid?

I have two different late model (a 2006 and a 2007) GM vehicles with satellite navigation systems. Both are manufactured for GM by Denso, although they clearly have different implementations and features. The one thing they both share, however, is blatant stupidity when calculating routes. I travel quite a bit between Houston and Austin and

IcyBee needs a new maintainer

The IcyBee project is a client for the ICB chat network with a graphical user interface and written in the Java language for cross-platform portability. The current version of the software has several years of stability behind it and few user requests, but there is always more work to do. The project is currently hosted