Tags: mac | os_x | trackpads | ubuntu

UPDATE : See my Blog Post on the Trackpad and Ubuntu Maverick

Because I'm Developer, one of the things I tend to get excited about is decent input peripherals. While that may sound a bit kinky, it just means I like to have nice, easy to use Keyboards and Mice. Why...? Well, a while ago I started getting RSI in my right arm. I eventually tracked this down to using a Mouse eight hours a day.

From that moment on I stopped using a Mouse, and switched over to using a Marble Mouse from Logitech. From the moment I switched over to using one, my RSI stopped. These are really robust devices and are probably one of the best trackballs ever made. However, now Apple have made an even better pointing device. The Magic Trackpad.

Tags: java

As part of my role in the $BIG_MEGA_CORP that I am currently working at, I have to deal with other companies API's. These often come in the form of SOAP services. These are often accessed via the various wonders of WSDL's. These days its quite easy to generate Jars of Classes via Maven. However, occasionally there are problems.

One problem I hit was the following Exception while creating such a jar with "mvn -Dmaven.test.skip clean package":

WSDLException (at /wsdl:definitions/wsdl:types/xsd:schema):  faultCode=OTHER_ERROR: 
An error occurred trying to resolve schema  referenced at
'https://securityservices.adcenterapi.microsoft.com/Api/SecureDataManagement/v7/SecureDataManagementService.svc?xsd=xsd3',
relative to 'file:/SecureDataManagementService.wsdl'.:  sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path 
validation failed: java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: signature check failed

Tags: java

It looks like there's a new version of Eclipse out now, called Eclipse Helios. Get it while its very new and shiny...! Since I'm quickly re-installing my favourite Plugins, here is a quick guide to what I install, and why...

Tags: network | rss | snow_leopard

Gosh, its a long time since I updated this isn't it..? Since my last post so much has happened. The iPad has been released, Ubuntu Lucid has arrived. And the Microsoft Courier has shown to be vaporware. How would of thought, eh...?

There's also been a new release of OS X, bring it to 10.6.4. To keep up-to-date I use Fever RSS by Shaun Inman. I've been using this for about a year and its been great. Up until I upgraded a Mac Mini to 10.6.4. And then Fever RSS stopped working. What happened, and how did I fix the problem...?