Monthly Archives: August 2009

temporarily ignoring files in git

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Dominic Mitchell

Quite often, you want to change a file temporarily whilst you work on something, but you know you don’t want to commit it. Right now I want to change my project’s logging from INFO to DEBUG, but I don’t want … Continue reading →

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JavaScript.pm on OSX

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Dominic Mitchell

Just a quick note… I was looking at RT#48699 when I noticed that MacPorts didn’t have JavaScript.pm in it’s collection. I needed to install it by hand. Unfortunately, the latest version (1.12) doesn’t install cleanly. So I’ve forked it and … Continue reading →

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The importance of Central

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Dominic Mitchell

One of the selling points of maven is it’s dependency mechanism. You say what code you need, and maven makes sure it’s there for you. The magic behind this is called central. It’s a phenomenal collection of software (much akin … Continue reading →

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I suck

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Dominic Mitchell

Committing heinous violations of 3rd party code in order to not upgrade a dependency. Shoot me now. API design is an art, not a science Example code should be exemplary There’s nothing quite like seeing your failings when they’re painted … Continue reading →

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jslint.com mirror

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Dominic Mitchell

Whilst I ensure I have the latest version of JSLint for each release of jslint4java, it’s often difficult to know what’s actually changed between versions. Unfortunately, Douglas Crockford doesn’t maintain a public version control system1 (which is entirely up to … Continue reading →

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