Richard Fearn

Following on from my post a few weeks ago about the API for History Flow, I’ve made a plugin for accessing files in Subversion. You can download the plugin JAR file here, or get the source code (in the form of an Eclipse project) from here.
To use it, you’ll need a few additional JARs:

javasvn.jar (JavaSVN)
swixml.jar [...]

Until a few weeks ago my mail server (Postfix running on Fedora Core 5) was having difficulty keeping up with spam. I was finding lots of bounce errors in the mail log, like this one:
Sep 23 12:32:15 fc5test postfix/local[9084]: 875EEF46F3: to=<rich@test.rdf>, orig_to=<abc110@test.rdf>, relay=local, delay=1011, status=bounced (Command time limit exceeded: “IFS=’ ‘ && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- [...]

Today I attended Rod Johnson’s Spring 2.0 seminar in London. Rod spoke about the new features of Spring 2.0, which is scheduled for release at the end of September.
Simplifying Spring seems to be one of the main goals of 2.0. The new configuration syntax will make things a lot more readable; it’s also possible to [...]

On Saturday I climbed Cadair Berwyn and Cadair Bronwen for the WaterAid Corbett Challenge.
There are some pictures here.

I’ve just had a problem with OpenOffice.org Writer whereby I couldn’t delete a seemingly empty page. There was a table on the first page, but nothing else. Putting the cursor on the second, empty page and pressing Backspace wouldn’t do anything.
It turns out that there was a page break before the “paragraph” on the second [...]

Getting this error when trying to allow incoming Bluetooth connections?

Event ID: 7024
Description: “The Routing and Remote Access service terminated with service-specific error 2147483720 (0×80000048).”

Try this:

unplug your Bluetooth adapter
go into Control Panel → Phone and Modem Options → Modems
remove the “Communications cable between two computers” modem
plug in the Bluetooth adapter and let Windows detect the hardware
set [...]

I’ve been meaning to have a look at XDoclet for a while now, and finally got round to figuring out how to use it when developing EJBs today. XDoclet 1.2.3 is the most recent stable version. However, the component of XDoclet that parses source code - XJavaDoc - doesn’t support Java 5 code (that uses [...]

In March 2005 IBM released History Flow, a tool for visualising the evolution of documents over time. The tool has been designed to allow new plugins to easily be added, but at the moment it isn’t open source, and there isn’t any documentation for the API. Fortunately the API isn’t too difficult, so I thought [...]