default: break;

An Azorean cake!

i am becoming one of them.

What a fight!

In order to develop the new video thumbnail generator for BelaCena v2, I just spent the last 4 hours struggling to build ffmpeg-php on Leopard. Goddamnit. These things make me miss Linux :)

Anyway, off the top of my head:

1. port install re2c
2. grab ffmpeg from trunk
3. compile & install ffmpeg with --enable-shared --disable-mmx --disable-vhook --enable-gpl --prefix=$FFMPEG_HOME
4. download & extract ffmpeg-php tarball
5. phpize; sh configure --with-php-config=$PHP_HOME/bin/php-config --with-ffmpeg=$FFMPEG_HOME; make install
6. add extension=ffmpeg.so to your php.ini
7. sleep

This finally worked after struggling with a ports install of ffmpeg, a php-version mismatch (I have a ports version and the one bundled with osx) and a few tens of minutes fiddling with those lousy ffmpeg configure switches and libswscale...

argh!

After many months of happily ignoring Silverlight, I just learned that you can use (Iron)Ruby to develop Silverlight applications. Neat!

All you need is the Dynamic Languages SDK and your set to go.

I'll give it a spin after I play around with MacRuby.

Two weeks ago I filed a bug report on NetBeans tracker, regarding a bug on the J2EE Project Deployment process which consisted in the incorrect undeployment & deployment of different projects that only shared name prefixes.

I am quite happy to see that the bug was quickly reproduced, fixed and applied to the main development branch for version 6.5 -- that little bastard cost me an afternoon's work of bug-hunting and some application downtime. Nothing critical but still...

Glad to see it fixed. It was a one-liner :)