Software

This is just a collection of some (useful?) software I have written and feel like sharing.

• WLP on Rails

  This is a rails plugin that does the same thing as WebLogic Portal's <render:portalFacet .../> JSP tag. It allows you to embed a WLP portlet in a Rails template like this: <%= render :portlet=>'my.portlet' %>. The plugin also includes a controller to reverse-proxy requests to/from WLP.
  Download wlp_on_rails.zip and explode it into your vendor/plugins directory. Then run vendor/plugins/wlp_on_rails/install.rb and edit the config/weblogic_portal.yml file that it creates.
  This is still kind of experimental - I have not worked out all the kinks in the reverse proxy (cookies and other header trash).

• ClickIR

  This is a little utility to allow you to control applications (via AppleScipt) using the IR Remote that is normally used for FrontRow.
  Get it here.

• SimpleP4 Plugin for Eclipse

  This is a simple Perforce plugin for Eclipse. I wrote it because with many large projects, and a huge p4 depot, the usual Team-based plugins get pretty well bogged down in all the p4 network traffic. This one:

  • doesn't do Team
  • doesn't support move/refactor/delete/etc
  • doesn't do file icon decoration
  • doesn't lock up your gui thread fstat'ing the p4 server to death
  • Does add a right-click popup menu to Navigator, Package Explorer, and your edit buffer views to let you do simple p4 commands like edit, diff, sync, revert, etc
  • Does show filelog history and fstat status in the file's properties dialog
  • and it has a console where useful logs go
  Drop landers.simplep4_2006.2.2.jar into your plugins directory.