A proguard builder for Scala + Android

I just put up code for an Eclipse builder to make it simpler to build Scala projects for Android.

http://github.com/banshee/AndroidProguardScala

It's still pretty rough, but it gets the job done.

Eclipse plug-ins not showing suggested templates

If you’re new to developing Eclipse templates, and you’re wondering why you’re not seeing a list of templates when you create your new project, make sure you check “This plug-in will make contributions to the UI” in this dialog:

If you don’t check that, you’ll see:

Instead of:

Comparing Microsoft and Google

Interesting comment on Microsoft vs Google (what it's like to work there) on the
Mini-Microsoft blog.


Look for the comment starting with:

>> And how do you compare GOOG to MSFT?

It's not black and white, there are advantages and disadvantages to both.

http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2010/05/thoughts-on-wrapping-up-microsofts-fy10.html?commentPage=2

Fail Whale

Just got the Twitter Fail Whale - haven't seen that for a long time:

If you're trying to use jruby on rails, and you see an error like this:

GEM_HOME=~/.jrubygem jruby -S rake db:create:all

(in /private/tmp/fnord)

!!! The bundled mysql.rb driver has been removed from Rails 2.2. Please install the mysql gem and try again: gem install mysql.

rake aborted!

no such file to load -- mysql

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

The solution is to run script/generate jdbc:

GEM_HOME=~/.jrubygem jruby -S script/generate jdbc

      exists  config/initializers

      create  config/initializers/jdbc.rb

      exists  lib/tasks

      create  lib/tasks/jdbc.rake

See Nick Sieger's blog for more detail.