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Wordpress to Jekyll!
This blog was always since ~2013 on a self hosted wordpress instance, at the moment I didn’t know better, its hard to maintain a database, upgrade it, set up apache, upgrade it ever so often, have a eye out for fuckups that will allow your site to be vulnerable to XSS attacks, php injection, etc!
Also there is a cost/benefit aspect, I have enough experience with databases that maintaining yet another mariaDB instance is not a learning experience any more, its a chore.
This site will be probably be hosted in gitlab pages with a custom domain, free of charge !
I had a great time customizing minima .css theme that comes default with jenkins, to match meglis.com
I wrote copy-pasted some ruby to generate a page for each category and the side panel that renders the
category list. Ruby seems hard coming from a C, C++, Java, Python background, some idioms are too
esoteric for my liking, initializing a hash of hashes needs yet another operator ? Of course it does!
This is a nice opportunity to test CI/CD features in GitLab, maybe host a runner of my own and build some other sites for fun and (intellectual) profit.
Installing Scala IDE plugin for Eclipse 2020
It seems that the group behind Eclipse Scala IDE is not anymore developing the project and all commits to the GIT repository have ceased. The newest development is that the site scala-ide.org has stopped serving the plugin as the subdomain downloads.scala-ide.org is not online.
I honestly thought about trying to build the plugin form source but midway I gave up as the build errors were mounting one after another. Thankfully there is still hope. In the mailing list for the project there is a report regarding the problem and one of the team members has given a link for the update site zip file for the plugin. There is one slight issue though, as of this moment the linked .zip is not a valid update site for eclipse, one needs to extract its contents and provide to eclipse the path that is a level lower than the compressed root. In any case that's no big deal and after a few keystrokes one can have a new eclipse installation along with the Scala IDE plugin.
I value greatly the eclipse foundation and their work in providing a modern IDE for everyone free of charge. In contrast the market leader for developing java projects, IntelliJ IDEA, has a pretty steep price making it much less available to many businesses and individuals. Until there is a commercial competitor to eclipse we all need to offer our monetary support for the continuation of development for both the platform as well as the plugin components that are essential for our job.