Interesting finds of the Week [Week of the 20January 2013]
Here is yet another installment of things I found interesting/learned this week.
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Over a decade of progressive professional software development experience in conjunction with more than two decades as a hobbyist developer has pushed me to reduce the burden of support and cost of delivery by writing highly-maintainable software of the highest caliber.
This blog is intended to be a personal collection of experiences/rants, journaling to tech related, things and other things that may be appropriate to share in a blog.
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In Support Of Maven
In the last few days there has been an article completely bashing Maven on hacker news. I found this a little aggravating. Much of the article spent time complaining about how the files are structured, and how much effort it takes to maintain a Maven file. Also, the article complained... [Read More] -
Groovy in Action: A review
Groovy in Action is the book that I should have put down quite a long time ago. However, I did trudge through it. Most Manning Press “In Action” books do a good job at introducing basic concepts at the beginning, and then go into blinding detail near the end. “Hibernate... [Read More] -
Links I’ve Found Interesting in the Last Week/Technical Things I’ve found Interesting (6 January 2013)
Getting the “Application Server Libraries not found” error with IntelliJ when you try to add a local Tomcat server? If you’re using Gentoo it’s a matter of file locations. Install the tomcat-api package, and make a symbolic link from the API within the Common and Shared Tomcat directories. Source. [Read More] -
Things I would like to Learn/Experience/Improve-Upon This Year [2013]
Since this is the time of the year that many making resolutions relating to self improvement, here are a few of mine: [Read More] -
Init.d Script for codeBeamer MR
codeBeamer ManagedRepositories is a free web interface for Subversion, GIT, and Mercurial from Intland. The product contains a standalone web application with their distributed version of Tomcat. However, the Linux version does not include the init.d scripts to start/stop the service on boot or on demand. I’ve written a script... [Read More] -
Massive IntelliJ Sale
Usually I’m not the type to advertise on going sales, especially when it is a ‘limited-time’ type sale. However, IntelliJ is having a 75% off sale. They’re offering the IntelliJ IDE for $50 for a personal license. This is incredible, considering that the IDE is similar to Netbeans and it... [Read More]