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Comment on m2eclipse tip by dom

dom — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:48:21 +0000

@Tim: Thanks for that, hopefully there will be more useful maven-related content in the future…

Comment on m2eclipse tip by Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:51:24 +0000

Well, who are you? And, why am I not subscribed to your RSS feed?

Subscribing now. If you ever run into something like this, email book@sonatype.com, we’ll update it immediately.

Comment on Time Zones, done better by dom

dom — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:08:25 +0000

@John: I think that’s what I’m trying to describe here. GMT is UTC for the purposes of this dicussion.

What I think is nice about the solution above is that you don’t have to explicitly track the timezone on the server. You basically just get the browser to deal with it.

Comment on Time Zones, done better by dom

dom — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:31:00 +0000

Of course, it’s better with more jQuery:

    $("span.datetime").each(function () {
        var unixtime = $(this).attr('unixtime');
        if (!unixtime) {
            return;
        }
        // Convert seconds to milliseconds
        var date = new Date(unixtime * 1000);
        $(this).text(format_date(date));
    });

Comment on Time Zones, done better by John Dalziel

John Dalziel — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:13:02 +0000

I think the best rule of thumb is to always use UTC time values between servers and internally as UTC is Timezone and DST independent. These can then be converted to local values on the end users machine by using a simple js Date( UTC_time_from_remote_server ) conversion on the end user machine.

Comment on Time Zones, done better by dom

dom — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:51:52 +0000

One more point to note: you don’t have to use a custom attribute (”unixtime”), you could stuff it into a class name somehow. But the attribute seemed nice and simple to me, even though it will cause validation errors.

Comment on Tomcat Logging in WTP by dom

dom — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:45:20 +0000

It took me long enough to figure out, so it seemed worth writing up. Glad I was right.

Comment on Tomcat Logging in WTP by Jason

Jason — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:31:33 +0000

Thanks, I’ve been tearing my hair out for a few hours trying to figure out why my stand alone tomcat install didn’t log when I found this. I’d read that FAQ too, but skipped over that entry as it seemed like I’d already done that. Dur.

Thanks again.

Comment on vim completion by dom

dom — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:17:48 +0000

Aha — more magic I was missing. That Ctrl-L sounds like just what I was requiring. But I’m trying to get both on a single key the way I’ve got zsh working: one tab to get the longest, then multiple tabs to start rotating through the choices. I did think that longest,full would do the trick, but I’m not so sure now. More playing definitely required.

Comment on vim completion by Aristotle Pagaltzis

Aristotle Pagaltzis — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:01:51 +0000

You need to backspace?! Over here, I can simply keep hitting [Tab] and vim will cycle through the available completions.

However, if you type [a][Tab] and you have 100 files that start with “a”, that’s kinda useless. So in that case you can type [Ctrl-L] instead, in which case vim will complete only up to the longest common prefix, just like setting wildmode would make [Tab] behave.