skype phone adapter doesn’t let you dial out

So…you buy a new skype rj11 adapter and it doesn’t let you dial out (it doesn’t pick up)? Never fear:
install skypemate
then right click on it -> advanced -> device options -> adaptor default channel set to USB and you can dial!

from:

http://www.amazon.com/Eforcity-Adapter-Interface-connects-network/dp/B000JCU88S

in terms of “open source skypemate” here is something:
Skypemate simply provides the button functionality to use it as a real phone.
But then how does it detect pick up?

to use: you dial 001+area code+number+#.
or dial “speed number as a two digit number” then #

from

http://www.von-phone.com/guide-skype-b2k-windows.php#speeddial

maven woe

If you use maven and it says “BUILD FAILED” go and see the logs and you go there and the logs are blank…It may mean that

a runtime exception is thrown in an @BeforeClass method, maven terminates with “go and see the log generated” message, however the generated log files are blank.

maven woe

So…you try and run your junit 4 tests’s with maven and none of them run? Or it requires all of your methods to have the test prefix?
You may have this in your pom.xml

org.apache.maven.plugins
maven-surefire-plugin
2.1

Note the old version! Beware!

java naming woe

——————————————————-
Exception in thread “Thread-0″ java.lang.RuntimeException: javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system
property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file: java.naming.factory.initial
at org.xxx.utilities.ConfigurationReader.prepareConfigurationURL(ConfigurationReader.java:112)
at org.xxx.utilities.ConfigurationReader.getURL(ConfigurationReader.java:132)
at

this meant “you need to specify the context within the newly created thread, as well as the main thread, of your test, otherwise it doesn’t transfer cleanly” — I think

ruby how to display stack trace with parameters

Isn’t quite there yet but here’s how to almost do it: outputs [something almost like] this:

c:\dev>ruby -rtracer2 crash.rb

|#0:crash.rb:4:Object:>: def go a
args were [["a", 3]]
|#0:crash.rb:5:Object:-: go2 a, 55
| |#0:crash.rb:1:Object:>: def go2 a, b
args were [["a", 3], ["b", 55]]
| |#0:crash.rb:2:Object:-: raise
|#0:crash.rb:3:Object:<: end
#0:crash.rb:6:Object:<: end

for file:
crash.rb:
def go2 a, b
raise
end
def go a
go2 a, 55
end
go 3


Go and get it: http://wilkboardonline.com/roger/tracer2.rb

Note also that ruby-debug has the "--trace" option which is similar but not quite as cool