Monthly Archives: June 2009
gnupg very basically
I’m trying to get jslint4java into central, via oss.sonatype.org. Part of this requires that you use the maven-gpg-plugin to sign your artifacts. All well & good, but I’ve never used GPG before (though I’ve been playing with SSL certificates for … Continue reading
The Maven Ecosystem
Last night I went to see Jason van Zyl of sonatype talking about various bits of the maven ecosystem, and where they’re going. The main bit for me was what’s coming up in maven 3.0. There was a great deal … Continue reading
find(1) abuse
A colleague wanted to find all the files that end up *.disp or *.frag. Easy enough, right? In the shell you can say *.{disp,frag}. $ ls *.{disp,frag} foo.disp foo.frag Except that this doesn’t work with find: $ find . -name … Continue reading
Responsiveness
Yesterday, whilst trying out Eclipse 3.5, I noticed a problem with the new XSLT support. So, I filed bug 279793 (All XSLT 2.0 has validation errors in xslt-2.0.xsd). I got a response in under 30 minutes, including a workaround and … Continue reading
Eclipse 3.5 in Cocoa
I’m just trying out Eclipse 3.5-RC4. One of the big new features for me is that it’s now based on Cocoa instead of Carbon. There are many benefits to this, including being able to run on 64-bit Java 6. Fundamentally, … Continue reading
Google Analytics in XHTML
I’e been attempting to get Google Analytics to work correctly in both FireFox and IE6 for a site at $WORK. This is not normally a problem, apart from the fact that we’re serving up pages to firefox as application/xhtml+xml in … Continue reading
sandbox(7)
Like a lot of people, most of my Unix knowledge comes from an early reading of Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment. This is an excellent tome on the interfaces provided by the kernel to programs on a Unix system. … Continue reading
dependency complexity
I love the google-collections library. It’s got some really nice features. But, it’s not stable yet. They’ve explicitly stated that until they hit 1.0 it’s not going to be a stable API. So there are changes each release. Nothing major, … Continue reading