Category Archives: Software Development

Hitting you over the head with the semicolon you left off the end of a C++ class declaration, comes the stumblings of a Developer and his pet sheep. Wooly.

Get your CTRL+ALT+Fx keyboard shortcuts back in Ubuntu 11.10

Posted on March 14, 2012 by neversleepz

I’m now using Ubuntu on my work desktop (nice change). My favourite IDE, IntelliJ Idea has a very useful shortcut CTRL+ALT+F7 to Show Usages of anything under the cursor. Its one of the most simple yet powerful features of the … Continue reading →

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Access restriction: The constructor NotSupposedToUseThisClass() is not accessible due to restriction on required library

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Kon

So following from my previous post about compiling Java 5 with a Java 6 compiler and the real reason that I am posting today, was to talk about a curly error message I got in Eclipse today. I had the same … Continue reading →

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Like rt.jar for like javac

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Kon

Today I switched an Eclipse project using JDK 6 on OS X to JDK 5. Even though there are command line tags in javac to produce 1.5 compatible source, the need to use JDK 5 comes into being when implementing … Continue reading →

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Building Jetty-Ant for Jetty 7

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Kon

Jetty-ant for Jetty 7 is a hard find. The documentation is all wrong, but that if you look at the Jetty Developer page they do concede that. The split between eclipse and codehaus doesnt help either. There are a lot of … Continue reading →

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Cookies in JSF

Posted on December 21, 2010 by neversleepz

If you ever need a reminder… Gareth Thomas Hill: Cookies in JSF. (hint) they are in the http servlet request and response that you get from the Faces ExternalContext

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[Presentation] Tomorrow’s Tech Today: HTML5

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Kon

Groovy / Grails ‘personality’  (and I mean that in the most fondest use of the term) Scott Davis presents a great round up of some cool HTML features. InfoQ: Tomorrow’s Tech Today: HTML5. He introduces some good tools and utils that … Continue reading →

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Android, Maven & Idea 10

Posted on November 27, 2010 by neversleepz

An entry about how idea 10th has improved its Android support. There are still some issues but it is getting there. http://www.teleal.org/weblog/software/Building%20Android%20applications%20with%20Maven%20and%20IntelliJ.html

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Jvm web framework feature matrix

Posted on November 23, 2010 by neversleepz

Nice to know. A spreadsheet simply rating characteristics of each framework. Grails Spring MVC Rails are the top players JSF was one of the more poorly ranked. Though they didn’t differentiate between v1 or 2. http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AtkkDCT2WDMXdC1HOEtnUHpCejJMbUhGeGJWUmh5dVE&hl=en&output=html

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Creating mobile web applications with jQuery mobile and Grails

Posted on November 15, 2010 by neversleepz

Creating mobile web applications with jQuery mobile and Grails The blogger demonstrates how easy it is to integrate the new jquery mobile library with Grails and easily create mobile views in scaffolding. I wasn’t familiar with the grails install-templates command … Continue reading →

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mod_pagespeed

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Kon

There is a new mod from Google for Apache servers called mod_pagespeed that removes redundant HTML before sending it to the client.  Very neat idea.  Makes me shed a tear I am wanting to move our legacy php into a … Continue reading →

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