We have started to use Bamboo from Atlassian in the office, which is a great continuous integration (CI) server. However, I am not the admin and getting access to the SureFire output files in the target/surefire-reports/ directory is a pain, as I have no access to the server that Bamboo runs upon (rightly so too).… Read more Trouble at getting access to your Surefire Output Files in your CI?
Last week, I had to turn around a quick and dirty web prototype overlaying a complex piece of pre-written business logic, and on the suggestion of a colleague I tried ICEFaces. Now, there isn’t an abundance of information out there on using these three APIs/frameworks together, but there was enough to cobble together my prototype.… Read more Integrating Maven 2, Spring and ICEFaces
Whilst most of us develop on machines that have access to internet, the machines that we deploy our applications upon don’t always have external access, or at the very least they have restricted access. This can make deploying applications that use Spring that reference the 2.x Spring schemas in their xml contexts, a pain. You… Read more Using Spring 2.x XML schemas without internet access
It has been a while since I have had a chance to sit down and write anything; a new baby, a new job and just general life have got in the way, but I have been meaning to blog about a project I did at the end of last year… My daughter had asked for… Read more iPrincess
If you use Mac OS X’s Screen Sharing and want to extend the functionality, there are some great tips here, which itself is old news, but one of the problems that I have found since I have been using it for quite a while is that when you add IP addresses or computer names to… Read more Removing IP addresses from Mac OS X’s Screen Sharing list
I’ve been looking at differing web based APIs/Frameworks over the last three months in an effort to move away once, and hopefully for all, from ‘traditional’ web Java development. With a plethora of RIAs hitting the market to add to those that already are there, now seems like a good time to look at what… Read more RIA or Bust
I have been wanting a quick an easy way to execute the “Secure Empty Trash” that is part of the Trash functionality of OS X. There doesn’t seem to be way of setting it to the default, so instead I have opted for a set of keystrokes. There are plenty of options out there, but… Read more Secure Empty Trash Keystrokes
I got an nice offer from Oracle Singapore to attend a Developer Day at the Raffles Hotel (all nice, plush and ever so posh). Now as this is a freebie I assume that the day will be liberally sprinkled with plugs for Oracle this and Oracle that; it goes with the territory. So up I… Read more Official: Free lunches are non-existent
Maveniser, my attempt at a Maven 2 plug-in for Eclipse, has had its project accepted by SourceForge.net (is it difficult, there did seem to be a lot of questions?), and I have placed the source code and the latest binary 1.1 into the site for your perusal and usage. Maven 1.1 includes the following changes:… Read more Maveniser 1.1 has its Source Forged
I love Maven 2 in some quite unnatural ways, hell I named my boat ‘Pom’, and I can wax lyrical about its finer qualities until the cows come home and then some. There are some bits that vex me, such as the lack of decent complementary tools, especially for Eclipse under OS X. Well I… Read more Maveniser: A very Simple Maven 2 Eclipse Plug-in