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jRuby FileChooser example

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Screen Shot on Mac

I’m working on the next version of It’s All Text! and it needs a stand-alone editor server. I’ve had a couple false starts other languages but I’m thinking it should be Java or jRuby so that it is fairly portable without me having too much grief. In addition, installing Java is a little more acceptable to a random group of people than installing Ruby (at the moment, it may change in the future).

Actually, I found two projects that make it much more likely I’ll use jRuby instead of Java: Continue reading →

Thematic featured images

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Example of Featured Image

I was wondering what the “Featured Images” box was when creating new posts and discovered that it’s a handy way to add images to a post. It auto resizes, crops (if you want), and can make it just “work” in your layout. The only drawback I’ve seen is I can’t use urls for the image.

Unfortunately, the Thematic theme doesn’t have out-of-the-box support for it.

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Setting up CEDET/ECB for Aquamacs

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Aquamacs 2.1 is now out.

UPDATE [2011/08/04]: Aquamacs 2.3a (the latest at this time) has CEDET already in it. So skip the part about installing CEDET. I still recommend creating the site-start.el file for CEDET but beware the differences between CEDET shipped with Emacs and the stand-alone version. When you get ECB, you need a version newer than 2.40, which at this time means getting the CVS version.

The new 2.x series no longer requires the Dvorak hack I posted about earlier (yay!)

2.1 has a nice new mechanism for plugins, so here are instructions for making CEDET and ECB work with Aquamacs.

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