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Next generation asynchronous webservices
Johannes joined a Bioclipse Workshop a long time ago, and introduced the participants to the idea of using XMPP (aka Jabber) for asynchronous web services. SOAP is commonly user to run webservices over HTTP, but via (SMTP) email and XMPP is possible too (see SOAP over XMPP). Using HTTP as transport layer has problems. The biggest problem, is possibly that HTTP connections are timed out, e.g. by intermediate router. This makes it rather unsuited for long running jobs. Workarounds are easy to come up with, and polling is a common solution.
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Embedding Gists in blogs
Mark pointed me to the embed functionality of Gist, product on GitHub where I host some todo software and a git mirror of CDK 1.2.x.
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Bugzilla Eclipse IDE integration: Mylyn
A new environment means new tools. Bioclipse is Eclipse RCP-based, so colleagues work with Eclipse and are much more into Eclipse too. For example, into Mylyn. Mylyn is a tool to track tasks and assign context to them. The tasks I am interested in (for this blog item), is fixing bug reports. Mylyn is rather suited for this, as it allows linking Java source files to bug reports. With a growing list of projects in my navigator, browsing them becomes difficult because the list is way too long. Mylyn allows me to only show those source files which are actually related to the bug I am fixing. Cool!
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GitToDo support for Freemind: graphical mapping of important things on my schedule
About a week ago, I hooked up my GitToDo software with Freemind. This allows me to organize the projects I am working on, without having to code this in GitToDo directly. I also immediately take advantage of visualization, for example, adding an icon for projects with one or more TODO items marked TODAY or URGENT:
