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Category Archives: Useful Links

Pimp My Emacs Post 1

Friday, February 5, 2010

I’ve been moving back to emacs, the editor of my youth. I’m not a vehement emacs evangelical, and I don’t really hate eclipse. But I’m moving back for rational reasons. Basically, I just don’t like to wait to write code. At my current client, I have a slow machine. This isn’t uncommon for consultants. It’s [...]

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Grails and HtmlUnit

Saturday, May 9, 2009

I was struggling to add HtmlUnit to Grails to do some testing when I came upon this. The solution was to remove the HtmlUnit included jar, xml-apis-1.3.04. The error looked like this: loader constraint violation: loader (instance of <bootloader>) previously initiated loading for a different type with name "org/w3c/dom/NamedNodeMap" java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraint violation: loader (instance of ) [...]

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Running JSLint From Within Eclipse Using Rhino

Friday, September 5, 2008

Mikko Ohtamaa provides a nice explanation of how to execute JSLint on a javascript file from within eclipse, using Rhino.

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Grails Multiple Datasource Plugin

Friday, September 5, 2008

Burt Beckwith discusses his new plugin – one I’ve been needing for a while!

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A Good Article on Agile Development

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Jonathan Harley writes, Agile development is a good way to minimize risks. (As an aside: the key difference between [agile and iterative development] then is as follows: in stage-based project management one person, usually the project manager rather than the business representative, is tasked with identifying risks to the project, based on the assumptions that [...]

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Gmail Tip

Monday, July 28, 2008

I read this today; I didn’t know you could manipulate gmail addresses in such a way.

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Install multiple IE (IE4, IE5, IE5.5, IE6) as a standalone for testing

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Although, most UI Javascript frameworks say that their script “works” in all browsers, it’s quite the opposite. As a developer, you might wanna save your ass till a last moment surprise. And you would want to test your web application or website on all web browsers, atleast for a sanity test. Typically this involves IE [...]

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Manage Eclipse Plugins with Pulse

Thursday, May 15, 2008

I’ve heard some good reviews about Pulse.

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Configuring Applications with Spring

Monday, April 28, 2008

Carbon Five Community has a really nice article on different ways of implementing/overriding properties files in Spring. In a real-world application, we not only need to collect settings, but also override them in different environments. Many of our applications are deployed in 4 or more environments (developer machine, build server, staging server, and production), each [...]

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Identifight

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Interesting website that will search for a given email address on a number of common webapps that expose email addresses via public APIs.

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