My thoughts on various subjects. I particularly love hacking my work. Either by methodology or by improving my tools. Check out this list of tags / subjects.

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Thou shalt be binary compatible

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I learned some new tricks today thanks to Gunnar around backward compatibilities in Java. There is compatibility and compatibility In Bean Validation, we n...

No more Java Preferences for you!

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Java on Max OS X is a moving target to say the least since stewardship has moved from Apple to Oracle. I had a lot of trouble to make Eclipse run on my machi...

Installing po2xml and xml2pot on Mac OS X

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Hibernate documentation system uses po2xml and xml2pot to build translations. Unfortunately, Homebrew does not have a formula for it and I don’t think I have...

Unable to update git from homebrew

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I have had problems on one machine to upgrade Git from Homebrew. Let me first tell you how to fix the problem and then what homebrew is about. The problem ...

I succumbed to the Cult of vi

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I think I am seriously regressing as I grow older. I mentioned in the past moving from the popular, dynamic and UI based blog system Wordpress to the Ruby b...