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Using iStat 2.x on Mountain Lion 29 Apr 2013 | 07:49 pm
Shawn Hooton wrote a piece on how to use iStat 2.x on Mountain Lion that I've used several times at this point. Linking to it here for posterity.
Moved to Blogger 8 Mar 2013 | 07:50 am
I started this Agile Answers blog on jroller back in 2006 and I lost some of the older content in my move to Posterous. Sadly Twitter is killing Posterous so I've had to move again...this time to Goog...
Resolving "Can't connect to window server - not enough permissions" forMaven test runs 8 Mar 2013 | 07:42 am
Our CI server (we use Jenkins) recently began bombing on several new tests that referenced java.awt packaged classes. The most common error in the stacktrace was "NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initi...
Loading Fixtures for FunctionalTest in Play Framework 8 Mar 2013 | 07:38 am
There are three possible gotchas with FunctionalTest on Play Framework 1.2.4: Ensure your db is configured for READ_UNCOMMITED transactions. See the release notes for more... Make certain that you i...
By popular demand ... my git-aware bash prompt 8 Mar 2013 | 07:38 am
Pirated from a long forgotten place...apologies to the respective copyright holders. Just paste this in your .bashrc for git-aware goodness: Loading ....
Compressing MySQL client-server communication with Play Framework 7 Mar 2013 | 01:21 pm
FolderGrid provides a RESTful api that often services requests where over 90% of the entire response time is spent pulling data from a MySQL instance. I was recently working to reduce overall response...
When not to front your application with nginx HttpProxyModule 7 Mar 2013 | 01:21 pm
Throwing nginx (or Apache or lighthttpd) in front of other application stacks is so common that we often don't think twice about the possible costs. This bit me over the weekend when I casually threw ...
Supporting multiple file upload runtimes with pupload inside ExtJS 4 7 Mar 2013 | 01:21 pm
The reference client I built for FolderGrid's API is a zero footprint web client created using ExtJS 4. I wanted to support drag & drop file uploads for advanced browsers but degrade nicely all the wa...
Automatically find trailing commas in your javascript project 7 Mar 2013 | 01:21 pm
These are simply updated instructions based upon the original Amaxus writeup here. Install Rhino (I used "port install rhino") Grab the Rhinoized JSLint script here. Create a script named checkFor...
orphanRemoval issues in Play Framework "collection owner not associated with session" 7 Mar 2013 | 01:21 pm
I was just burned by an issue in Play Framework's JPA support of orphanRemovals. The issue manifests as a "collection owner not associated with session" JPAException within Play Framework 1.2.x - it ...
