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This sort of thing makes me so mad I could spit
Often projects have external dependencies. Sometimes their whole job is to resolve external dependencies. Maven, yum, rubygems, heck CPAN! These projects should be built as if their dependencies are...
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(No) Fun with ant, SWF, Eclipse
It’s a little thing. But when you install ant on fedora, nevermind the huge list of dependencies, there are some optional ant parts that aren’t installed unless you ask for them by name (thus...
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Im-a build me some Spring samples (Part 1: petcare) #fail
Just more examples of commonplace Eclipse/Java things that drive me nuts. I should say up front that the version of Eclipse I’m using is actually SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) version 2.3.2.RELEASE,...
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#Androiddev fiddling – package deploy error and using preferences
Hit an error this morning when deploying an Android project: WARN/ResourceType(586): Bad XML block: header size 28024 or total size 1702240364 is larger than data size 776 WARN/PackageParser(586):...
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Android packaging and publishing
I’m giving a lightning talk on LogMyLife and other Android-y stuff this Friday at SplatSpace. I thought it’d be nice to allow people to download the app and try it out if they so desire, even though...
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Checking out Hibernate with STS
I have cause to revisit my post about importing a git checkout into Eclipse. I need to take a look at the Hibernate code, which is on github at git://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm.git, and given...
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Fiddling around on Apr. 3rd
The “New Post” link at the top of WordPress goes to a new post form devoid of useful options. Now why would WordPress want to make that the standard? Discovered today that some versions of Spring...
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The missing guide to creating and modifying tc Server instances for STS
Being a VMware/SpringSource project, STS comes with tc Server as a servlet container. There’s a server definition out of the box, but if you want to create your own, it is IMHO less than obvious how to...
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Fiddling around with Cloud Foundry
In my spare work time the last couple days I’ve taken another good look at Cloud Foundry. I haven’t gotten to the code behind it yet, just putting it through its paces as a user. I’ve used the public...
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Stuff that should just work…
Had one of those Maven/Eclipse experiences that was so infuriating, I need to record it here to make sure I can fix it easily next time. Using STS 2.9.1 I created a “Dynamic Web Module” project. For...
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