Category Archives: Java

The Blind Fireman

March 9, 2010 – 13:39

There’s more than one way to skin a cat, or so they say. Similarly, perhaps, there are many ways to successfully lead a development team, small or large. Having done the former in various capacities I’ve learnt a lot about people, myself included, and there’s one conclusion I can’t ignore: it’s a fickle business. Books [...]

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Ant TODO Update

January 2, 2010 – 21:34

Quick update regarding Ant TODO: there’s now a JAR available for download, so you can get it running even quicker!

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Ant Task for TODOs

December 31, 2009 – 15:58

I often felt the need to scratch an itch when it comes to source code and a little fragment called //TODO. It’s scattered everywhere; I’m sure you’ve seen it. Yet no matter what codebase you’re looking at, there’s never any real exposure to them.
I therefore decided to implement an Ant Task for parsing TODOs in [...]

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Sky Songs and Linux

December 15, 2009 – 22:55

If you want to use the Sky Songs download client in Linux (say Ubuntu or Debian), just paste the following into a file called skysongs in $HOME/bin and then chmod a+x it:
cd $SKY_SONGS_DIR; /usr/bin/java -cp . -jar downloader.jar $*
Note, $SKY_SONGS_DIR should be changed to your installation directory. If you used wine to install Sky Songs, [...]

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