Anant Shrivastava : Techno Enthusiast

Last few days I have been breaking by head against Eclipse and various SVN plugin’s in an attempt to make them work behind a proxy server.

MY test Subjects were
Eclipse 3.5 : Galilieo
SubEclipse : SVN Client
So the single thing that you will not be able to find is a unified configuration settings.
Eclipse will require a separate configuration file for proxy, and similarly you need to configure Subclipse.
Now getting to the configuration.

For Eclipse you can refer :
http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/reference/ref-net-preferences.htm
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1940984/how-to-specify-eclipse-proxy-authentication-credentials

For Subclipse
You need to open
C:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\Application Data\Subversion\servers
In this file you need to uncomment few line

# http-proxy-host = proxy1.some-domain-name.com
# http-proxy-port = 80
# http-proxy-username = blah
# http-proxy-password = doubleblah
# http-timeout = 60

You need to change this to refelect the details of your proxy server.
Also keep in mind you need to that there should be no gap at the beginning. Refer http://subclipse.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1046&dsMessageId=2412710
http-proxy-host =
http-proxy-port =
http-proxy-username =

Note : for users behind password protected firewall if your firewall is configured in IE you don’t need to provide your Password in this config file. Have not been able to test this in other conditions.

Busy like hell these days with a inhouse project for my firm.

working on HTML / CSS as well as graphing / charting for the project.

the toolset i am using

1. Open Flash Chart
2. FaceBox
3. Jquery
4. Jsp
5. MySql

A simple tip i am writing as i was experimenting with Facebox, Open Flash Chart, and a large array of javascript in one page.

and i found one error.

while the default samples provided at open flash chart website work fatastically when working alone but have a piculiar to flash problem while working with jquery specially facebox.

when a facebox method is called it goes in the backround while the flash remains in the foreground. no matter what z-index game you try but flash always remain on top of facebox.

A bit of googling yielded http://joelg.info/problem-with-flash-appearing-on-top-of-facebo

but this talked about adding a parameter in flash embed object code in HTML

but while working on advance javascript only method of open flash chart i was using just swfobject code and hence to obtain above requested feature we need

X.addParam(“wmode”, “transparent”);

to be added in the function calling. where X is the SWFobject.

Hope this helps someone else finding solution a bit easily.

Note : tested on Firefox 3.5 and IE 6.0

Hi along with my-profiles plugin work i had a need to extract favicons from various sites so i created this simple bookmarklet using google services which will extract the favicon of the current opened page for you.

I tried it in various scenario and seems to be working fine for me (FF 3.5 only till now.)

To add the bookmarklet just drag this link to taskbar : Extract Favicons

Note : been a lot busy these days with my official work and some inhouse development. for the curious ones : currently working on implementing

1. flot
2. Open Flash chart

Besides these working on SQL optimization for my inhouse project.