Reality-Loop

  • March 05, 2009

    OS X: Quick Look for Groovy

    Update: The info in this post is deprecated, check out my post Quick Look for Groovy with Syntax Highlighting. Quick Look is one of the coolest features of OS X Leopard. Unfortunately it only supports a limited range of file types. I blogg...

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  • March 03, 2009

    Temporal coupling?

    When you group things together just because they have to happen at the same time, the relationship between them isn't very strong. - Michael C. Feathers Working effectively with legacy code follow me on twitter, I need some friends :-)

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  • February 27, 2009

    Infer XSD from XML

    Trang is a neat little utility to generate a matching XML Schema from an existing XML Document. Usage is straightforward: java -jar trang.jar input.xml output.xsd Tool page is here. Manual is here. Code is hosted on google code. The tool ca...

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  • February 26, 2009

    Braindeadness successfully achieved ...

    Today it was finally confirmed, that my journey to braindeadness was successful ... Im officially a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 ... Actually it was quite a challenge, because even though my b...

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  • February 25, 2009

    Web automation with Groovy and Ruby

    For a small private project I need to do some web automation. I wanted to use a scripting language and decided to give Ruby and Groovy a try. In Ruby there is the Mechanize library. In Groovy there are different options. The Ruby Mechanize ...

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