• Feature:There is a link to download the PGN as a file.
• Handling of broken (unmatched parentheses in comments) PGN files
• skipToMove feature
• Updated to obfuscator – Fixes problems with Opera

Head off to the downloads section and grab 0.6.4.

I’m happy to support the yahoo game format (although the name clash, jsPGNviewer ). If anybody out there has a large collection of games in yahoo format I would be interested to use them as a testbed for the new functionality. Drop me a line in the comments…

I soon discovered that I’d like to know what shortcuts other users use. I whipped up a patch that would let the plugin users specify a reporting URL. Channing liked the idea, open-sourced the plugin and gave me access.

Last week I had the plugin enabled and now I produced a page of the statistics. The stats show that I was pasting all last week .

I was also introduced to the EPP’s Usage Data Collector. I have not checked if it also monitors actions’ invocations. If it does not we’ll try to propose a patch of some sort.

I’ll be uploading my stats for another couple of weeks and compare to my colleagues and see if I can find anything interesting.

If anybody is interested in seeing their stats they can download the plugin from the project’s page and use “http://tom.jabber.ee/reporting/” as the URL. Every installation is generated a UUID and if you specify the reporting URL your workspace/.metadata/.plugins/com.stateofflow.ergo/commands.properties will be reported to the specified url every 1 hour. The stats can be seen from http://tom.jabber.ee/reporting/result.php?uuid=YOUR-UUID

I’ve also updated chesspastebin.com. The site has a feed for new games now. Just subscribe to http://www.chesspastebin.com/feed to keep an eye on games added to the pastebin.

I’ve made all the URLs at www.chesspastebin.com more readable. Instead of ?pid=view&id=132 it is now /view/132. Let me know if any of the urls are broken.

Is firebug the reason not to migrate now? There is an experimental version at http://fireclipse.xucia.com/.

• There is a HTML entity for “…”. The “…” is used to denote black to move, e.g. 43… Ra8 in PGN files. Well, WordPress editor thinks that the three dots should be replaced by the entity for no apparent reason. Thus parsing broke.
• When pasting games to the WordPress editor and saving the blog post, WordPress or tinyMCE thinks its pretty cool to shuffle the <pgn> tags around a bit and add one extra just to be sure. Well, this breaks the regexes that expect the tags to be intact.

What about a solution? The first problem is easily fixed by the new version of the plugin, which replaces the entity back. The second problem is addressed by letting users use ###pgn## # (three prefix and suffix # marks, the space is because I have the plugin installed) to denote the start of a PGN game and a %%%pgn%% % to denote the end of a PGN game. tinyMCE or WordPress does not shuffle does around, yet.

Head off to the downloads section and grab 0.6 and to the issues list to add feature requests. Chesspastebin.com has also been updated with the latest version.

More information at the ZeroTurnaround blogpost that has a screencast showing off the new integration.

Today I got the same error for Liferea and now I had the time to investigate. Firstly to turn debugging on for dpkg is a matter of dpkg -Ddebug_level_no. More info with dpkg -Dhelp. Next I ran dpkg -D10 –configure liferea and saw that the post installation configuration is held under /var/lib/dpkg/info. There was a script liferea.postinst.

In that script the line gtk-update-icon-cache –force –quiet “$dir” was failing with a message “The generated cache was invalid.”. I did not start debugging why this was happening. As the list of installed gtk related packages is quite short then I just installed gtk2-engines-pixbuf and the cache update started working. Lucky guess

Before moving to Java (mostly JEE) I did couple of years PHP development. The thousand levels of abstraction, tons of third party libraries and most importantly the ever taking change-check cycle were something difficult to accept. I was so used to getting feedback automatically and could not even imagine that one day I will even have to re-traverse some application just to store some state.

For the past months I have been working on team battling the change->compile->redeploy cycle. Today there is a release. It is called JavaRebel and the product brings the cycle down to change->compile->check. Classes loaded by the container can be changed and JavaRebel inbetween will load these changes (adding/removing/changing fields, methods etc.).

When I was working on my Google Summer Of Code project I had to buy extra RAM just to be able to run couple of instances of Eclipse. I was not willing to buy a new CPU to make the restarting these instances of Eclipse faster. JavaRebel does not have Eclipse support but it is in the roadmap.

There is a screencast up that will demo some features of it. Java development will change.