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I was astonished to find out that Mercurial was unable to represent empty folders. The most obvious workaround is to create an empty file in each of those folders. But hey, you don’t want to do that by hand do you? Well luckily we’re all using a Linux based OS with an extremely powerful command [...]

I’m so sick and tired of Subversion! A couple of days ago our repository server was down which caused the f… stupid svn client to hang. Not even pressing Ctrl-C would stop it. In the end I had to kill it the hard way. This obviously messed up the svn locks. You should think that [...]

I’ve been trying out the beta build of NetBeans version 6.7 and it’s looking very good. The PHP support is becoming very good.
Even Grails support is coming along with support for Grails 1.1. Rumors has it that even debugging is supported now! Nice work!

Bah, can’t believe that it took me that long to figure it out. Apparently you need to have the Grails application context up and running in order to use convertes (as XML / JSON) in your unit tests. After moving my test from the unit test folder over into the integration test folder it worked [...]

I’ve just spent about a day trying different embeddable Java LDAP servers. To save you from all the trouble I came across I’m going to share some of my experiences.
Basically you have three choices when it comes to  embeddable Java LDAP servers (at least open source). First of you have Sun’s OpenDS, they have a [...]

You better be kidding me!!
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/emotion/XGR-emotionml-20081120/

Want to unit test a private method in Java?
You could obviously change your methods access modifier from private. By making it public you’re breaking encapsulation and by making it protected you’re making your API less intuitive. Don’t do that.
Another way to go about this is to create a new class that’s extending the one with [...]

For some time I’ve been looking for a way to auto generate UML diagrams inside JavaDoc files. The perfect solution would integrate into Maven 2, which is my build system of choice. A few days ago I stumbled across Apiviz, which turned out to be exactly what I’ve been looking for! It provides simple integration [...]

The last days I’ve been testing out Hudson (in between lots of good Christmas food of course). Hudson is “an extensible continous integration engine”. That’s fancy-talk for what I like to call a build engine. It’s able to get updates from your SVN server and build the Maven project while keeping track of tasks, unit-tests [...]

I dagens nettutgave av VG kan vi lese om en “livsfarlig” bru i Venezia der de har valgt form over funksjon. Dette er også veldig typisk i programvareutvikling der mange setter utseende høyere enn brukervennlighet.
Klassiske eksempler fra programvarens verden er Winamp og Nero. Winamp var et meget enkelt program for å spille av mp3′er, en [...]