Archive for December, 2009

Bleeding edge of development – upgrading system and ANT stops working

Monday, December 28th, 2009

I run Debian Unstable as my main desktop system. I shoot myself in the foot couple of times a year with the upgrades but I like using the bleeding edge of development.
Today after my “regular” upgrade I noticed that one of the ANT tasks did not perform as I would have expected.

/home/toomasr/workspace/project/build.xml:459: The following error [...]



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Hacking with IDE plugins – fun art of binary patching

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Today’s software is so much about integration. You can have a cool Java utility but if you don’t have an Eclipse plugin for that, a large % of Eclipse users won’t adopt (IDEA & NetBeans users require plugins just as much). In the consumer market the same goes for browser extensions and iPhone apps [...]



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