Ant files are commonly used to manage Java projects, not always I’ll grant you, but I’ve no personal experience of Maven, and as far as I can tell Ant does everything that I need. What I struggled with when I first started using them though was how to structure them, and furthermore how do you manage them between multiple developer workspaces…

Recently I was trying to install Mysql 5 installed via MacPorts, and I found a very helpful tutorial from hivelogic. Which all worked beautifully, but to get the server to launch properly at startup I needed to do a couple more steps. After googling around the errors I was getting I found out that I needed to run mysql_upgrade…