February

This is the archive for February, 2008.

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  • Being reminded of the benefits of a community in open source

    To anyone that has worked in a healthy open source community, this will seem like a no-brainer, but sometimes it’s good to be reminded of the real benefits when you involve a community of diverse developers in what you’re doing.
    Earlier in the week, Joakim brought up the discussion topic on the Archiva Development List about […]

  • Working around –non-interactive problems in Leopard’s Subversion

    Apparently, the –non-interactive flag is broken in Subversion as distributed with Leopard and a fix is not yet available. Bad news for Maven users wanting to use any of the SCM tools.
    Hopefully a fix will be available either through an update or a version of Subversion that can be compiled from source, but in the […]

  • Cloned Mac migration problems? Check your permissions

    I recently received a new(er) Macbook Pro, and wanted to get up and running in as short a period as possible. I chose to go with a full hard drive clone so that the minimum amount of modification and reinstallation would be necessary.
    Apart from a small misunderstanding between me and my external USB drive, that […]

  • Experimental Maven support for condensed POMs using attributes

    As I’ve just posted to the Maven developers list, I’ve always wanted to see an attribute based POM, so based on Nicolas’ suggestion I killed some time after waking up early this morning to do it.
    Here’s what you’ll need to try it:

    a build: http://people.apache.org/~brett/apache-maven-2.0.9-SNAPSHOT-terse-bin.tar.gz
    or if you prefer to roll your own, the source: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/components/branches/maven-2.0.x-terse

    The issue […]

  • Blog Moved to Exist, and Wordpress / New Year, New Job

    Since DevZuz was acquired by Exist , I’ve now move my blog to it’s new home. Hopefully everything redirects here now, and I’ll shortly set up Feedburner properly (finally) so that can be used to subscribe in future. I’m really liking Wordpress - though Pebble treated me well, you just can’t go past the wealth […]