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I found this today, which some may find useful. It provides prepackaged Eclipse distributions for certain tasks, all ready to go.
http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/index.html

For this upcoming quarter our instructor has slated a colleague and I to develop a web application in PHP using a MSSQL database, seperate from the standard student projects. In preparation for this, I decided to set up a development box so we could get started early. It was completely unnecessary for us to get [...]

I’ve spent the past couple days working towards getting a common development environment set up, so that I don’t have to use different IDE’s and tools. I’m trying to get everything situated, since Winter quarter is likely to be one of the most programming intensive quarters that I’ve had. I want to be prepared, so [...]

I’ve accomplished a fair number of items this week, and so I bring them here to you.
Our team for CSCD340 (Operating Systems) has finished our memory paging simulator (written in Python), and we are now in the process of running 6 tests on it. The tests include simulating the following:

Consecutive data, worst efficiency algorithm
Consecutive data, [...]

I recently reflected several differences in my knowledge:

My desire to know everything about computers, networks, and security, and what I actually know
In that context, what X is needed to know before learning Y

I want to know all there is to know in these areas, and in thinking about this desire, I realize that there are [...]

So there are a lot of triple-boot tutorials available on the net (most noteably ubuntu’s wiki), and they do a really good job of addressing most details. However, there is one snag that is missing from all of these tutorials, and it can trip up people if you don’t know what it means or how [...]

Over the past several days (actually more like a week, but only more intesively so recently) I’ve been looking for the perfect text editor for web development on Mac OS X. Several people recommended Smultron, which I tried and liked, but it doesn’t have the seamless FTP integration that I was looking for. (That, by [...]