Posts Tagged ‘troubleshooting’

Using Java in Windows Command Prompt

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

It seems that the Java Runtime Environment installer doesn’t automatically add the binary path of java and javac to the system environment variables, so the ‘java’ and ‘javac’ commands can’t be used without a path. For example, when you type “javac test.java” while in your test project directory, you might get the following message:

javac’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

The solution to this problem is pretty simple and should take less than two minutes to solve, so let’s solve it… (more…)

ProjectPier Email and Upload Problems Solved

Friday, March 14th, 2008

One of my subjects, “Enterprise Engineering”, requires us to form a group to work on a project. Since my group only really gets together once a week, I used this as an excuse to install something I’ve wanted to for ages - ProjectPier. After registering this domain, it was the first thing I set up. ProjectPier was really impressive - it is just as good as, if not better than 37 Sinals’ “Basecamp”, except it’s free! But I soon realised that ProjectPier wasn’t so great…

 

EEET Project in ProjectPier

ProjectPier after setting up, creating projects, adding tasks and changing the theme.
You really should change the theme, the default one’s a bit 90’s.

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