It’s quite frequent that I’ll need to stand up new web services. Most of the time when doing this I have turned to using Spring because it is really convenient for that sort of thing. Often this has meant copying an existing web service project and modifying it to become …
This will deliberately cause commits to fail if commits don’t include a valid JIRA bug number. In your project repo, add the following to .git/hooks/prepare-commit-msg and make it executable. Simple but does the job. Change the JIRA_PROJECT_PREFIX to whatever works for you. #!/bin/sh export JIRA_PROJECT_PREFIX=RP JIRA_ISSUE=$(cat $1 |tr ‘\n’ ‘ …
Oh, I hate those configure methods in Hadoop, they spoil all my fun, so I finally did something about it.
Just read this passage in Clean Code and it really struck a chord: To write clean code, you must first write dirty …
I’m encountering a bug in the Java compiler where the order of files submitted for compilation can cause code not to compile. …
I’ve been working on increasing adoption of develop-driven testing in my new job. It’s a bit of a tough sell with an …
I don’t do a lot of front end development these days, being mostly concerned with crunching big data on Hadoop, but I …
A lesson in doing things right by doing them wrong first.
I have to use Exchange for mail at work, unfortunately, and it’s mostly annoying, as are most of its clients – which …
Apple is deprecating the JDK. This sucks. A petition to have OpenJDK take over the Apple JDK is in progress. Sign/View Petition. …