In fact, I still find it hard to come up with any one outstanding part of the conference.  It was all so awesome, and all so in depth.

If there is anything that I brought out of it, it’s a desire to learn more Java and figure out some ideas to deal with GWT and Android.  Those are two pretty hot topics in my mind right now.

I was also impressed with the Google Earth and Google Maps API integration.  That’s a pretty sweet package right there.  I love maps, and man making maps with Google is fun.

Hopefully I’ll be able to put together some cool things for work in the near future.  I’ve got one project requiring maps and travel data right now, so we’ll see what that brings.

I also have a desire to actually figure out a Rubiks Cube.  Thanks Google, it was a blast.  See you next year, I hope.

Then I realized what I’d forgotten to do on this fresh install.  I forgot to simply ’sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun’ and voila, it works like a charm.

Eclipse doesn’t work well with the gjc java (the ‘free’ and default) Hopefully this little thing won’t be an issue in the future when sun java 7 (open java) is ready to rock the free world.

And now for slang, because it’s so much more fun…

tit, ass, bag, vag, nip, cap, rod, rim…

Sure there’s apps, SvnX, SCPlugin for Finder, and a few others that typically suck — and unfortunately I always end up using Eclipse and it’s Subversion plugin.

But really, the user friendliness of it all is making my stomach turn.

First, make sure all php packages are updated — if you update PHP after installing this, it will likely segfault.

For the purpose of this, I’m using Ubuntu 7.10, and Java 6 (sun-java6)


First, get the build essential, as well as php5-dev, sun java and automake

# apt-get install build-essential php5-dev sun-java6-jre \
    sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-source automake

Second, get the PHP/Java bridge source.

# cd /usr/src
# wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/php-java-bridge/php-java-bridge_5.2.0.tar.gz
# tar xzfv php-java-bridge_5.2.0.tar.gz

And, install.

# cd /usr/src/php-java-bridge-5.2.0
# phpize
# ./configure --with-java=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03,/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03
# make
# chmod +x install.sh
# ./install.sh

Answering the questions for the install script is fairly simple. It looks for some tomcat stuff for the servlet portion of the Java Bridge, but we won’t be using it.

Copy *.inc to someplace it can be found.

# mkdir /usr/share/php/java
# cp *.inc /usr/share/php/java

Testing,

# php test.php

By default, java is only enabled in the command line php; to enable it in the global instances of php, edit the php.ini file and add the extension.

;; java.ini: Activate the PHP/Java extension

;; zend_extension = "/path/to/java.so"
extension = java.so

;; If you have installed the java-servlet.ini leave this file alone,
;; edit the servlet or standalone ini file.  Otherwise uncomment the
;; following java section and one of the following options:
[java]

There are no other options required. Make sure the java.hosts and java.servlet are disabled. If logging is desired, that’s another story.

Oops! What a horrible Idea. Well, not really - There’s only one thing wrong.

As it turns out 3rd party applications still live in the stone ages. Adobe CS3 will refuse to install. There are a few other apps that apparently go sour as well (popcap games). Of course because Adobe CS3 is a sack of shit - and you cannot install it to another volume (wtf is with that?) - I may just not bother installing it at all. At least the games will still run from their respective DMG files.

My only other real option is to format again and do a full restore of what I’ve got installed right now using Time Machine…

All I can say is lame lame lame. Get with it Adobe (and you few others, PopCap games for example)

Some interesting shit about google, i guess.. and I’m just testing the digg to my blog feature.

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A lot of links on my content pages may be broken, feel free to comment if you see something that is in such a state. I’m sweeping up as fast as I can. Go team.

I’ve found a theme that I kinda like.. although I’ll probably have to fix up a few things that bug me.. but hey, they’re never perfect… right?

I’m migrating my content and stuff from CMS Made Simple over to WordPress. I guess that’s all I have to report.