This morning I was working on a project and one of the modules I depended on had a small bug in it. As I was about to log an issue on the project’s github page I discovered that it was already fixed, just not yet released. I really wanted to push my changes out to [...]
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Gradle Tip: Start/Stop Embedded Jetty for System Tests
December 6th, 2011
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I thought I’d share another feature of gradle that i have found extremely useful, starting and stopping an embedded jetty server when my tests run. This is really useful for projects that host web services as it allows me to hit them and very the correct results plus it verifies the full stack is configured [...]
Gradle: Using JNDI with the Jetty Plugin
November 27th, 2011
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I use gradle a lot at work and I believe one discovery that was a true win was discovering how to fake JNDI when using the jettyRun task for local development. Originally googling and searching the documentation didn’t yield anything so I thought I’d write a quick post detailing how to do it in case [...]
Big Company vs. Small Company
November 25th, 2011
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The other day I was having lunch with a friend of mine who works for a medium sized company (by medium sized I mean large, but not Fortune 500 large). Our discussions touched a variety of topics by one that caught my attention was when he voiced his frustration on his current project. “We’re not [...]
Accessing a Connect Session From Socket.IO
October 13th, 2011
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UPDATE 11/28/2011: After talking with TJ Hallowaychuck I discovered I was doing it wrong… there are better ways to do this then the hack I had come up with. Using connect to parse the cooie you can use this instead: Which is much cleaner than what I originally posted. The original post is intact for [...]
Playing To Win
August 21st, 2011
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Previously I had posted about the sad drudgery developers often have to deal with in large companies. I’ve decided to follow up that post due to two epic milestones the past week: taking RabbitMQ live within the company and getting github blessed by legal and infrastructure for internal use. My previous post was a rant [...]
Respect
August 4th, 2011
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So the past couple of weeks at work have left me with a bad taste in my mouth. A bad taste I thought I’d reflect on. Granted it has been an awesome couple of weeks with lots of progress forward, there’s still those small nagging issues. It’s the silly idea in the corporate world that [...]
links for 2011-06-29
June 29th, 2011
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PHP AMQP Clients (tags: rabbitmq php) Redis over rabbitmq (tags: rabbitmq messaging queue redis)
links for 2011-06-28
June 28th, 2011
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Gradle Build Language Reference Gradle User Guide (tags: gradle)
links for 2011-06-27
June 27th, 2011
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LearnBoost/stylus – GitHub (tags: node css web) Float containment — Articles — Colin Aarts, freelance web developer
