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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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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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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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Write a single class to generate a full blown webapp — another webapp?

Monday, March 31, 2008

Write one pojo class as your domain model and you get a full blown application with CRUD, UI pages, in built search, report generation, portlets etc. No more xmls, no more code generation. No Maven. What are we talking about? Too good to believe but the folks at OpenXava 3.0 seem to take a huge [...]

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