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Java + Junit + Ant Template Project 4 Aug 2013 | 05:16 am
Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Creating new Java projects is a pain! I could end this post here, and people would have been satisfied to read it. However, I thought I’d add some more context, and maybe...
UK Top 40 albums & singles JSON 24 Jun 2013 | 02:46 am
Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes So I had this idea for a little application and wanted to get the UK’s Top40 singles to use in it. I started by writing something that would scrape Radio 1′s Top 40 chart ...
Running Railo on AppFog… For free! 5 Jun 2013 | 01:49 am
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes You will have noticed I deviated my blog posts quite a bit from CFML in the last couple of months. That doesn’t mean I don’t love it anymore, but just that I’ve been “putti...
Want a free copy of my new book? 17 May 2013 | 12:24 pm
Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes No catches here, all you need to do to get a free e-copy of my new book jQuery Drag-and-Drop Grids How-to (UK , US) Is read the book, and then write a review of it on your ...
My NodeJS app development experience 18 Apr 2013 | 10:27 pm
Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes So, I decided to take a punt at writing a NodeJS application. Not a big application, or anything that would get me slashdoted, but an application that would help me underst...
I am a published author 10 Apr 2013 | 05:50 pm
Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes A few months ago I was contacted by Packt Publishing about a new project they had in mind and thought I’d be a good fit for. The challenge was to write a book about one sin...
Managing your dotfiles the right way 2 Apr 2013 | 01:12 am
Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes It’s no secret that on the UNIX world, dotfiles play a very important part when it comes to making your terminal look good. Be it on Linux, be it on a Mac. Dotfiles are the...
Installing Visual Studio on a different drive 13 Feb 2013 | 07:16 pm
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes I’ve got a pro license of Visual Studio 2012, and decided to install it instead of my existing VS 2010 Express install. Because I didn’t actually have anything very importa...
Android: Where is my menu button? 10 Feb 2013 | 03:16 am
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes So you’ve created your super polished android application and added a navigation menu to it, so your users can go from a place to another in your application without having...
Making your JMeter tests timeless. 31 Aug 2012 | 07:45 pm
Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes At work, we use Apache JMeter for load testing applications or API’s we build. JMeter is an amazing open source tool with an even more amazing community behind it, so if yo...
