There was no instance of eclipse accessing that workspace, but I found a .lock file workspace/.metadata/.lock. After manually removing the .lock file, I would restart Eclipse but it would still complain and re-write the .lock file back to the folder.

A local workspace worked just fine, so the problem is exclusive to using a workspace from a mounted filesystem. A quick search for NFS eclipse workspace turned up a way to alter the way file locking is done.

I edited the eclipse.ini file in Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS, and added the following:

-Dosgi.locking=java.io

Once I added that startup option, eclipse was able to use the mounted workspace.

So this morning instead of kicking off an ssh session, I click Start->Run, typed mstsc, then logged into my development Win2003 server (since you can’t really do sharepoint development anywhere but where the server is actually running). I switched to the visual studio window I left running and noticed some odd characters in the middle of my code.

I circled the oddly-placed characters in the middle of my code so you can see what I’m talking about. Perhaps you’ve done this before. When I saw the :wq, I knew immediately where they were from and had a sense of calm come over me. I miss my vi.

Today I needed to examine the text of a trigger, but I couldn’t remember the view to obtain it from. Here’s the code to spool it to a text file:

-- eliminate row count message
set feedback off
-- eliminate headings from showing
set heading off
-- suppress output
set termout off
-- don't show sql in result set
set echo off
-- keep text body from wrapping
set linesize 1000
-- eliminate trailing blanks
set trimspool on
spool /tmp/trigger.sql
select 'CREATE OR REPLACE ' from dual;
select text from user_source
where name = 'TRIGGERNAME';
select '/' from DUAL;
spool off
set feedback on
set heading on
set termout on
set linesize 100
set echo on

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Gentle Intro to AJAX

• no toolkits for this example
• Retrieve using AJAX:
  http://www.sconzo.com/web2.0/ajaxsimple.txt

Gentle Intro with toolkit

• Prototype JavaScript Framework:
  http://www.prototypejs.org

Another toolkit example

• Prototype Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater

Sample RSS Feed Aggregator

• Google “ajaxfeeds” toolkit:
  http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/

Sample XML, Interactive Grid

• Source XML File:
  http://www.sconzo.com/gridexample/activnyse.xml
• JS schema for XML file:
  http://www.sconzo.com/gridexample/xml-grid.js
• ExtJs Toolkit (also uses Yahoo toolkit):
  http://extjs.com

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• Uses ajax to check for unique id collisions
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