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Monday Mar 29, 2004

New software.

Comments[11] by Dave in General

This site is now running Tomcat 5 and MySQL 4. The site seems quite a bit faster, which is of course a good thing. Now that I'm running on MySQL 4, both at home and on this site, I would like to add referential integrity to the Roller database. To that end, I've been reading up on MySQL and playing around with DBDesigner4, an ERWin-like database modeling tool recommended by Scott Switzer on the Roller dev-list. DBDesigner4 is an impressive piece of software with a very slick user interface and, best of all, DBDesigner4 is free -- licensed under GPL.

Last week, I bought a copy of Dragon Naturally Speaking Prefered for Windows (about $150 including microphone headset). I'm using it to dictate this weblog entry and it is working very well. It took only about 10 minutes to train Dragon to understand my mumbly and lispy voice. Dragon works well, but to use it effectively you must think before speaking and you must speak very clearly. This is really not a problem because just about everybody, and especially mumbly me, needs practice thinking before speaking and speaking clearly.

I'm getting a new desktop machine at work and I'm trying to decide which Linux distribution to use. I'm going to use the machine for development work using Eclipse, Tomcat, and PostgreSQL. The guys down the hall like Gentoo, but the consensus among RTPBloggers is that Debian is a better choice -- much more mature, stable, and widely-supported. I'm assuming that Eclipse is stable on both Gentoo and Debian, please correct me if I'm wrong.

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Eclipse 3.0 M8

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Rave beta

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