- 2011-07-242 minHacking rails on Ubuntu with rvm
Over the last few days I have been familiarising myself with some of the rails source code and surveying it for use in my own projects. In doing so I noticed there were quite a few gotchas getting Ubuntu and ruby set up …
#012 - 2011-06-143 minGHTest Getting Started
Recently I have caught the OS X software development bug and started hacking on a small project in this environment. As I am normally pretty keen to try out new APIs and indeed a whole new language, I was keen to get …
#011 - 2011-06-074 minRHOK Survival Guide
Last weekend I was fortunate to have participated in first ever random hacks of kindness event. This was quite an amazing experience and one I really enjoyed, however going into this event I had no idea what to expect, …
#010 - 2011-05-292 minWorking with the html5boilerplate project
Recently I started work on a new site which I plan to use underscore.js and backbone.js . Starting a site from scratch can be quite a chore, as well as time consuming. To remedy this I decided to take the plunge and give …
#009 - 2011-05-262 minUsing Apache CXF And Maven With a Proxy Server
I discovered a couple of interesting issues when using Apache CXF and Maven behind a proxy this week. It started when I sent out a package of stubs in a Maven project I had built to enable developers of integration …
#008 - 2011-05-244 minHow to build server with Bamboo and Ubuntu
Recently I have been looking into setting up my own build server, having used Cruisecontrol, Hudson, Teamcity in the passed I wanted to give something new a try. With the recent release of Bamboo 3.1.1 I thought I would …
#007 - 2011-05-222 minUsing Jackson with Apache CXF
Whilst working on my Javascript, ExtJS 4 and Apache CXF skills I came across a solution to a problem I encountered getting ExtJS to talk to Apache CXF using JSON. The basis for this issue revolves around …
#006 - 2011-05-203 minApache CXF Logging Configuration
Configuring logging in Apache CXF can be confusing at first, in my view this is further compounded by Apache Tomcat’s logging architecture. In my cxf based projects the first step is to use the logging …
#005 - 2011-05-072 minBuilding Apache CXF web service clients namespace mapping
Recently I have been doing quite a bit of work around Apache CXF , both on the server side and the client side. Over the next few weeks I will post some of the tricks I have learnt. In this post I will summarise one of …
#004 - 2011-03-061 minMoving to Jekyll and Disqus
First post from my newly migrated blog reviewing migration from wordpress to Jekyll and Disqus. Jekyll for site generation. Sass for simplified css goodness. Pygments code highlighting. Disqus Following some of the sites …
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